The 'First they came for the TikTok dancers' AI meme is resonating across the internet
adamamcbride · x · 2026-10-06
A post riffing on the classic "First they came..." structure is making the rounds: AI came for the TikTok dancers ("I didn't speak up because I couldn't dance"), then for the influencers ("an influencer I was not"), then for Hollywood — "and I cheered cuz f Hollywood."
The meme skewers how people only care about AI displacing jobs when it hits their own tribe, and has struck a chord amid the ongoing Hollywood AI backlash.
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