{"id":"apple-airpods","name":"Apple AirPods","summary":"Apple AirPods are the $159 wireless earbuds Apple launched in September 2016 with the iPhone 7. The meme built around them uses the visible white stems as shorthand for wealth, aloofness, or self-satisfaction, born from Twitter mockery on launch day and hardened into a class-signal joke by 2018.","tags":["apple airpods","airpods meme","airpods wealth symbol","iphone 7 launch","wireless earbuds meme","airpods twitter jokes","courage headphone jack"],"howToUse":[],"imageCount":5,"nsfw":false,"images":[{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/apple-airpods/apple-airpods-apple-airpods-promo-photo.webp","caption":"Apple's promotional image of the original AirPods and their charging case, released alongside the product launch in September 2016.","width":800,"height":450,"nsfw":false},{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/apple-airpods/apple-airpods-toothbrush-airpod-lookalike.webp","caption":"One of the earliest AirPods jokes: users compared the earbuds' elongated stems to electric toothbrush heads dangling from the ear.","width":680,"height":525,"nsfw":false},{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/apple-airpods/apple-airpods-airpods-live-listen-tweet.webp","caption":"A viral 2018 tweet that popularized using the AirPods 'Live Listen' accessibility feature to secretly listen in on other people's conversations.","width":680,"height":431,"nsfw":false},{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/apple-airpods/apple-airpods-sobbing-shower-airpods-reaction.webp","caption":"A reaction meme playing on the AirPods Live Listen eavesdropping trend, imagining the emotional fallout of overhearing something painful.","width":680,"height":705,"nsfw":false},{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/apple-airpods/apple-airpods-suspicious-dog-airpods-meme.webp","caption":"A joke meme about the paranoia the AirPods Live Listen eavesdropping trick would inspire, using the popular side-eyeing dog reaction image.","width":680,"height":633,"nsfw":false}],"historyUrl":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/apple-airpods/history.md","related":["fast-fashion-critique","private-taxi-for-my-burrito","airpod-flexing","arcteryx-jacket-water-resistant-water-beads-off","cyber-monday","late-capitalism","pumpkin-spice-latte","spiritually-israeli","starbucks","supreme","three-wolf-moon","whole-foods"],"popularityRank":1611,"license":"Meme images and history: templates, screenshots, photos and fan edits, many of copyrighted material or real people. Explicit and offensive memes and images are included and flagged nsfw. Check you have the right to use an image before publishing."}