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Oh, internet. Only you could take a meme about one thing and somehow turn it into something entirely different.
The latest viral meme of the year was spawned from a tweet that jokingly suggested a 3D-rendered version of Britney Spears was actually a scientific recreation of the famed Egyptian queen, Cleopatra.
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That tweet, sent by a Britney Spears stan account, was actually a take on another popular tweet featuring Lana Del Rey.
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The person running the original account explained to BuzzFeed News, “One of my mutuals has a viral tweet about Lana Del Rey and Cleopatra and I just made it into Britney.” They also added that the majority of responses were arguments about Cleopatra’s ethnicity.
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Some folks were also upset that no one had read the actual scientific article being referenced.
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Shortly after that first tweet, another tweet that simply said “It’s Britney bitch” blew up the meme to an even bigger audience.
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It wasn’t long before others jumped in on the trend and put forth their own renderings of “Cleopatra.”
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Some were pretty interesting…
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… While others were quite familiar!
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We may never know what the real Cleopatra looked like, but it’s probably safe to say that it probably wasn’t anything like these 3D models.
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h/t: BuzzFeed
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