Twitter Turned Photo of the Castro Twins Into a Meme Machine

Oct 29, 2019
4:18 PM

This week’s latest meme creation confirms the internet remains undefeated. On Monday, a Washington D.C-based celebrity Twitter account posted a photo of Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro and his twin brother Congressman Joaquin Castro at Reagan Airport. Less than a day later, Twitter users have taken then photo and just made it their own.

Some of the first comments happened right under the photo or while sharing it:

Of course, Castro campaign staffers jumped in:

Then Jerónimo Saldaña tweeted this out and the #LatinInternet did its thing:

Even we couldn’t help but join in ourselves:

The photo seems to have been taken while the twins were filming a TikTok video for The Washington Post. “Maybe this will help y’all tell us apart,” Castro tweeted before his brother responded with this:

By the way, this is the TikTok.