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Pete Buttigieg Walking "Back to Iowa" Photograph is an image macro series of Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg walking through a hallway. The image inspired a number of image edits and captioned image macros.

Origin

On January 25th, 2020, Pete Buttigieg posted the image on Twitter ^[1] with the caption, "On my way back to Iowa. It’s #Phase4. Let’s do this." The tweet received more than 3,200 likes and 315 retweets in less than three days (shown below).

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Following the post, some online mocked the photo by adding elements from other memes. For example, journalist Luke O'Neill^[2] added the text Ah Shit, Here We Go Again, comparing it to the Grand Theft Auto meme. Twitter^[3] user @Julie_Johnsoned edited the image to place Buttigieg in the horror film The Shining. The tweet received more than 900 likes and 100 retweets in less than three days (shown below, center). Throughout the day, others shared variations of the image (example below, right).

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