I started it on Instagram, and it got really popular pretty quickly within a very specific online community, which I now talk about a lot. How long did it take Klit Klittredge to find an audience? Did you start on Instagram or Twitter? That was a thing that I was really invested in for a little bit. I also ran a Tumblr in college where I would write blog-style posts about how big I thought each president's penis was. I actually would love to pick Rand Paul Fashion back up.
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was called Rand Paul Fashion, and I did that for a while I eventually lost the password and got locked out of the account. So I liked to point that out, like there's an image of him wearing a business shirt and a suit jacket, and a pair of plaid Bermuda shorts. I don't know how much you know about Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, but he does not have a great sense of fashion. This was like in 2014/2015, so right before he joined the presidential campaign trail. I'm from Kentucky, and I ran a Twitter account where I would tweet things about what Kentucky Senator Rand Paul was wearing. Did your previous meme accounts have specific themes, too? My first TikTok got like 30,000 likes, and I ran with it. There were a few instances of different American Girl doll memes or tweets going sort of viral, and I thought I could do that. That has to be a meme account." This was back in the summer of 2021. And I was like, "Wow, Klit Klittredge, like Kittredge. As far as American Girl dolls, I thought of the name Klit Kittredge. Sometimes I'll do them under my own name, but in the past I've run little accounts here and there, so it wasn't that weird for me to start up a random meme account. I have been posting silly memes on the internet for as long as I can remember.
Mashable: What inspired you to start the account?
In an interview with Mashable, the 24-year-old woman behind the memes, Lydia B., opened up about her own childhood nostalgia, why American Girl dolls lend themselves to political discourse, and what legacy they hold in the culture now.
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Each historical doll had an accompanying chapter-book series that explored their historical period and documented their adolescence. As any woman of a certain age will tell you, they were more than just dolls. And her memes often draw on the shared experience of growing up with American Girl dolls. A delightful mix of shitposting and leftist memes, knows that nothing brings the internet together like nostalgia. Her Instagram boasts over 50,000 followers, and over on Twitter, she has an audience of more than 34,000. With their dead eyes and characteristic front teeth, these dolls have consumed public consciousness for decades, and now they're experiencing a cultural revival thanks to meme accounts like just over a year, - a play on Kit Kittredge, the Great Depression era doll - has become one of the most prolific American Girl doll meme accounts. If you've spent any time on the internet recently, chances are you've seen an American Girl doll on your feed.
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