This Guy's Election Prank On His Brother Just Became A Huge Meme
Mohamed el-Sherif mocked up a fake sign to prank his brother during the Egyptian election — and then it all got pretty out of hand.
Hi. This week Egyptians have been voting in their presidential election. There are two candidates: incumbent president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, and another guy (OK, Moussa Mostafa Moussa) who has said he wants Sisi to win.
A lot of people have compared the election to what took place in Russia recently — Sisi is pretty much guaranteed to win.
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The country has been plastered with posters and declarations of support for Sisi.
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One exception however is voter Mohamed el-Sherif, who posted the sign apparently outside his family's home on Facebook. The sign said the whole family supported the president...except for "the disobedient Waleed," Mohamed's brother.
The full caption reads: "The family of el-Sherif, except for the disobedient Waleed el-Sherif, supports and pledges allegiance to President Abdel Fatah el-Sisi with love for another presidential term. The Egyptian army is the armor and sword of the homeland."
Mohamed el-Sherif / Via facebook.com
Before things really got out of hand, Mohamed posted again to explain the entire thing was a prank, and he had Photoshopped the image.
(The actual sign read: "The family of Sennu, Haj Reda al-Haji Awad Sennu and Mr. Hamada al-Haj Awad Sennu and the family of Sennu supports and pledges allegiance to President Abdel Fatah el-Sisi for another presidential term. The Egyptian army is the armor and sword of the homeland.")
Mohamed El-Sherif
This second image — showing the photoshopping — was shared almost 30,000 times and picked up by a debunking website in Egypt.
They found another picture of the sign, quickly posted about it, and then it was also picked up by Egypt Today.
Eventually, the "disobedient Waleed" himself posted on Facebook to show that he had in fact voted in the election — for Sisi.
He captioned his post: "They want to drive a wedge between us, Mr. President, I swear I voted for you."
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