Shakira shared a new Instagram photo recreating her famous computer-desk pose, nearly 30 years after the original shot that became one of the internet’s most enduring memes.
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- The post: Shakira, 49, captioned the Tuesday, Aug. 3 photo of herself seated at a desk with a printer: ‘I have a feeling I’ve seen this before,’ adding the hashtag ‘#letscreatetogether.’
- The original: The first image was reportedly taken in 1997 at the newsroom of the newspaper El Heraldo in Barranquilla, Colombia, near the beginning of Shakira’s rise to fame, showing her in the same pose typing at a computer.
- How it became a meme: The image has become an internet favorite, especially in discussions of MySpace — used to mimic arranging a ‘Top 8’ or customizing a profile song, though the platform didn’t launch until August 2003. One Instagram page captioned it ‘Https don’t lie,’ a play on her 2005 hit ‘Hips Don’t Lie.’
- Fan response: ‘Love, thanks for updating the meme,’ one fan commented, while another wrote: ‘HAHAHAHA THE BEST MEME OF ALL TIME.’
- The MySpace context: The post coincided with MySpace’s return to cultural conversation, as current owners Chris and Tim Vanderhook — who acquired it from News Corp in 2011 — appeared in filmmaker Tommy Avallone’s documentary, which premiered at the Hot Docs festival in Toronto on April 27, stating their intent to relaunch the site.
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‘We still own Myspace… and we are going to relaunch Myspace. We’re just waiting for the right time to do it,’ Chris Vanderhook said in the documentary, without giving a date.
Source: People
