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Boris Johnson Sitting On A Bench refers to a photo captured of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson and BBC News Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg together sitting on a bench with Boris showing a confused expression on his face. The photo became subject to caption challenges on Twitter and was also photoshopped on social media.

Origin

The photo was screenshot from a BBC News report on September 3rd, 2019, which was then picked up by the Poke, a British satirical website, on September 6th (shown below), who started a caption challenge on Twitter of the image under their #PokeChallenge hashtag with the image of Boris Johnson and Laura Kuenssberg sitting together^[1] (see below).

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Following the tweet, many Twitter users began making jokes about the image. For example, Twitter user @DoctorLeeds made a joke about Johnson being lectured (shown below, left). User JimMFelton joked that Johnson, recently sworn in as Prime Minister, looked completely unhinged (shown below, right).

Later that day, The Poke^[2] ran a list of some of the best jokes about the picture. Other popular examples include a tweets by @AyoCaesar (shown below, left) and @JohnRivers (shown below, right).

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