Hillary Clinton's "What Happened" Book

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Hillary Clinton's "What Happened" Book is an upcoming memoir written by Hillary Clinton discussing the contentious 2016 United States presidential election. The book title was widely mocked on Twitter following its announcement in late July 2017.

Origin

On July 27th, 2017, Hillary Clinton unveiled the title of her upcoming book What Happened, a memoir discussing experiences during her 2016 presidential run against Donald Trump (shown below).^[1]

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That day, Twitter user @Kno tweeted a photoshopped version of the book cover edited to read "What in the Entire Fuck Happened?" (shown below, left). Meanwhile, Twitter user @ColeLedford11 posted a photoshopped picture of the inside of a book with a passage about Clinton getting "3 million more votes than Trump even with his collusion with the Russian government" (shown below, right).

Also on July 27th, several Twitter users posted joke names for the book along with the hashtag "#BetterNamesForHillarysBook"^[2] (shown below). Meanwhile, The Daily Dot^[3] published an article about the online reaction to the book titled "Hillary Clinton’s new book title is getting laughed off of Twitter."