[Internet] Cosby tells Twitter to "Meme him"; Turns into a symbol of rapeculture

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If you're a celebrity who is in the process of narrowly tip-toeing around allegations of sexual assault and are looking for a way to simply crash headlong into them, you'd be hard-pressed to find a more effective method than creating a meme generator for your likeness. Perhaps that's exactly what 77-year-old actor and comedian Bill Cosby was hoping for when he unveiled #CosbyMeme Generator on his website Monday.

The generator enables users to scroll through a series of Cosby photos and add their own text. The user-created memes do need to be submitted for approval (and for the sake of maximum enjoyment, let's pretend that Cosby himself is the one rendering the judgement), which Cosby's team likely hoped would prevent the generator from being used for anything other than wholesome, old-fashioned fun. Unfortunately, savvy Internet patrons know how to take