Why was Dave Franco trending throughout a number of social media platforms?
As a result of he’s a handsome actor with Italian-American options and thick eyebrows.
And since that set of options additionally occurs to explain Luigi Mangione, the accused UnitedHealth CEO murderer.
As a result of this story has turn into so controversial, there are those that are already planning the biopic of Mangione. Most are half-joking about Franco enjoying him in such a movie.
However he’s not the one well-known determine who’s turn into a part of the jokes.
In a way, this isn’t about Dave Franco in any respect
On Monday, December 9, the web cried out in heartbreak.
Police claimed to have arrested the gunman who killed UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson on December 4. When Luigi Mangione stopped by a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, an worker believed that he resembled safety photographs of the supposed shooter and known as him in.
Responses are blended, each concerning the homicide, the alleged murderer, and his arrest. Some are condemning the “class traitor” within the McDonald’s workers who allegedly reported him.
Others are lamenting that Mangione’s social media historical past is disappointing, labeling the accused murderer a “milkshake duck.”
That’s, an individual who turns into well-known in a single day, just for individuals to later be taught that they’re not directly not nearly as good of an individual as individuals beforehand assumed.
The time period “milkshake duck” doesn’t usually apply to alleged killers. Nonetheless, the dismal state of healthcare in the US and public sentiment in the direction of medical insurance CEOs has meant that Thompson’s killing has been polarizing.
CNN reviews {that a} two-page doc from Luigi Mangione was discovered, which included the strains:
“These parasites had it coming. I do apologize for any strife and trauma, but it surely needed to be finished.” pic.twitter.com/v5d07Q6hRs
— Pop Base (@PopBase) December 9, 2024
Luigi Mangione is the new new meme
The invention that the suspect that police recognized arguably is tremendous scorching didn’t precisely diminish individuals’s enthusiasm. What that claims about us as a society, we go away to you to determine. However, individuals have been posting what some would possibly contemplate absolute artworks over how thirsty they’re for Mangione.
These thirst posts started lengthy earlier than police accused him of being the shooter. (Police additionally declare that he had faux I.D. and a two-page manifesto on his individual, for no matter that’s value)
It wasn’t simply that the face on the safety stills seems pretty good-looking. However sure, that helped.
Somebody examine on Ryan Murphy
— THEO FORD (@the-theo-ford.bsky.social) December 9, 2024 at 3:31 PM
The memes additionally stem from social commentary on our deeply damaged system. All throughout social media, individuals shared medical insurance horror tales — notably about UnitedHealth.
Most of us wish to reside in a nation of peace and justice, however defenders of the assassination have identified that millionaire CEOs of well being insurers are unlikely to face any form of justice via the authorized system.
One little twist of irony is that whichever McDonald’s worker allegedly snitched on Mangione won’t have the ability to afford any significant quantity of healthcare.
Wait, the place does Dave Franco match into this?
We point out all of this to set the stage for why individuals are already joking over the seemingly inevitable biopics about this.
Even when Luigi Mangione finally ends up being exonerated (many social media customers are already, maybe jokingly, providing to alibi him for the night time of the killing), his story could be value telling.
Throughout TikTok, Bluesky, Tumblr, Reddit, and what stays of Twitter, social media customers had been suggesting that Dave Franco is an ideal match for the function. They do have comparatively comparable facial options.
Dave Franco frantically calling his agent
— Keith First rate (@keithdecent.bsky.social) December 10, 2024 at 3:02 AM
To be clear, Dave Franco is 39 years outdated. Good-looking although he could also be, he could also be a bit a protracted within the tooth to painting somebody who was enjoying Amongst Us with faculty buds only a few years in the past.
(Sure, we’re alluding to NBC’s embarrassingly terrible piece on Mangione’s online game historical past. Unusually excessive ranges of brainrot)
We’d counsel that Franco may positively painting Mangione on Saturday Night time Reside. Presumably in a (online game) Luigi costume. Every part on this world is deeply absurd.
However … possibly let’s wait and discover out if the police claims are even remotely true earlier than we begin casting him in biopics a couple of very actual homicide.