Bill Cosby Meme Generator Backfires on Comedian
Posted by Verne Gray, Newsday on 11th Nov 2014
Bill
Cosby's website hastily withdrew a "meme generator" after Internet
users deployed it to recycle decade-old rape allegations against the
comedian.The
meme initiative quickly unraveled Monday after Cosby's twitter account
sent out a photo along with a hashtag and link to a Web page where fans
could make presumably humorous memes by adding text to other Cosby
photos from over the years. Instead, users -- who numbered in the
hundreds, according to some reports Tuesday -- descended on the page to
post comments relating to the rape alleg
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