Ligma joke

[1] Brady Olson, who made a satirical 2016 presidential run under the pseudonym "Deez Nuts", confirmed to Rolling Stone that he chose it based on the bofa meme.

[7] "Ligma" was the fictional disease jokingly rumored to have killed the popular video game streamer Ninja in July 2018.

[1][8][5] In October 2022, two amateur improvisational actors played a media prank, pretending to be newly fired Twitter employees "Rahul Ligma" and "Daniel Johnson" on the eve of Elon Musk's takeover of the company, and multiple major media outlets reported the incident as actual news.

[11] In October 2018, fact-checking website Snopes debunked false reports that rapper Machine Gun Kelly had died from a "Ligma overdose".

[12] In July 2021, the Lead Stories fact-checking website confirmed that "Ligma" was not a new variant of the COVID-19 virus, but it was the latest version of "an old dirty joke".