# Ben Shapiro Ben Shapiro is an American conservative commentator, Daily Wire founder and podcast host whose rapid-fire debate style and 2019 BBC interview meltdown with Andrew Neil made him a recurring subject of political memes. His 'facts don't care about your feelings' catchphrase and the 'I'm popular and no one has ever heard of you' outburst are the two clips most quoted in political meme threads. ## Overview Ben Shapiro is an American conservative political commentator, author and podcaster who runs The Daily Wire and hosts the weekday show The Ben Shapiro Show[1]. Online, his name is shorthand for a fast-talking, argue-from-first-principles debate style and for the catchphrase 'facts don't care about your feelings'[1]. The most-circulated Ben Shapiro meme material comes from a May 2019 BBC sit-down with veteran journalist Andrew Neil, in which Shapiro accused Neil of being a leftist and abruptly ended the taping[1]. Screenshots of his pre-broadcast apology tweet, jokes comparing him to a kid dunking on a Fisher-Price hoop, and corn cob edits flooded Twitter in the following days[2]. ## How It Spread Shapiro's meme presence spiked on May 10, 2019, when the BBC aired his interview with Andrew Neil promoting the book 'The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great'[1]. Neil pressed him on U.S. abortion rollbacks and read old Shapiro tweets, including one claiming 'Arabs like to bomb crap and live in open sewage'[1]. Shapiro, apparently unaware Neil chaired the conservative magazine The Spectator, told Neil to just admit he was on the left and complained 'I'm popular and no one has ever heard of you' before ending the 16-minute chat[1]. Ahead of the broadcast, Shapiro tweeted that he had 'misinterpreted his antagonism as political Leftism' and apologised[1]. Twitter user @JordanUhl said Shapiro had been 'dunking on a fischer-price hoop' until the BBC 'raises the rim by a foot' and he loses it, clearing 1,800 likes and 320 retweets[2]. User @uwebollocks paired the apology tweet with a picture of a corn cob, tying the moment to the Corn Cobbed 'admitting defeat' meme, and outlets including The Daily Beast wrote up the meltdown[2]. Shapiro's name also carries a running Urban Dictionary joke about the fictional 'Shen Bapiro' as an objectively superior alter-ego[3]. ## How to Use Common Ben Shapiro edits pair his rapid-speech clips with 'DESTROYS' headlines, remix 'facts don't care about your feelings' as a reaction caption over unrelated video, or reuse the BBC 'popular and no one has ever heard of you' line as a self-own quote[1]. Corn cob images alongside apology tweets are still used as visual shorthand for the 2019 Neil interview[2]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Ben Shapiro? Ben Shapiro is an American conservative commentator, Daily Wire founder and podcast host whose debate clips and 2019 BBC meltdown became recurring political meme material[1]. ### Where did Ben Shapiro come from? He rose through Breitbart and college campus speaking tours in the 2010s, but the defining Ben Shapiro meme moment came from his May 10, 2019 BBC interview with Andrew Neil[1]. ### What does Ben Shapiro mean? As a meme reference, his name is shorthand for a rapid-fire debate style and for viral clips where that style backfires, like the Neil interview and the 'popular and no one has ever heard of you' outburst[1]. ### How do you use Ben Shapiro? People clip his fast speech under 'DESTROYS' captions, quote 'facts don't care about your feelings' as a reaction line, or post a corn cob next to his 2019 apology tweet to reference the Corn Cobbed format[2]. ### Is Ben Shapiro still popular? Shapiro still runs The Daily Wire and produces The Ben Shapiro Show, and his 2019 BBC clip is one of his best-known online meme moments[1]. ## References 1. [https://www.thedailybeast.com/ben-shapiro-storms-out-of-bbc-interview-im-popular-and-no-ones-ever-heard-of-you]() 2. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/ben-shapiro]() 3. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Ben%20Shapiro]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/ben-shapiro Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library