"Given all that, it seemed what happened next was inevitable: ONTD users created a Twitter hash tag — #gokeyisadouche — and decided to include it in their respective Tweets until it made it all the way to #1 on the site’s Trending Topics (which it eventually did, overtaking #iranelection at the top of the list).
That, of course, caused even more people to begin Googling “Gokey is a douche” (because, really, most people had no idea what was happening), sending the term rocketing up the Google Trends list. And from there, an Internet meme was born."

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Danny Gokey Detractors Take Their Fight To Twitter, Google - News Story | Music, Celebrity, Artist News | MTV News

An Internet meme highlighting that, no, we don’t have to accept Gokey’s “belief,” a cover-up word for hatred, bigotry and discrimination.

18 June 2009 ·

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