The Brief: This meme highlights blatant hypocrisy, misinformation, and misdirection.
DEEP DIVE
In a comedy sketch from the Eric Andre Show, the host, Eric Andre, shoots blanks at his co-star Hannibal Buress. After it appears that Eric has just shot and killed Hannibal, he asks:
“Who shot Hannibal?”
An image from this scene is now an object-labeling meme about cover-ups, hypocrisy, and blatant lying. In these memes, Eric and Hannibal are labeled, and Eric asks how something else caused the death of the person he just so obviously shot, saying:
“How could ____ do this?”