Where’s Bernie: App Puts His Inauguration Look Outside Your Home

ACROSS AMERICA — Oh, Bernie. Bernie Sanders. You’re like the hardy perennial of presidential politics. You’re always there.

You won over millions of supporters with your, ahem, voice-sterous, to-the-point progressive ideas that never made it to the mainstream before your 2016 and 2020 presidential runs.

Your fashion? Bet you didn’t think, this time last year, that would be what everyone would be talking about after this week’s inauguration.

The image of you seated alone — in Vermont-made mittens, a heavy coat and paper mask — as Joe Biden became the nation’s 46th president has become the first classic meme of 2021.

The Bernie look, the mittens especially, immediately stole the internet meme show on Wednesday. A yarn shop in Michigan is even promoting a deal for people to buy some just like yours. “Bernie kits” that include the envelope you were carrying have become memes themselves.

Within minutes, photoshoppers put you on the bench next to Forrest Gump, on the moon waiting for Neil Armstrong and alone on the New York City subway, among many other places and time periods.

A compilation, if you need more Bernie edits pic.twitter.com/gPnq82yMEe
— chelsea (@chelsealeite) January 21, 2021

Where will you be next?

Everywhere.

It took just hours for a New York University student and data researcher to develop an app that puts your already-iconic inauguration pose anywhere. Nick Sawhney, a 22-year-old grad student pursuing a master’s degree in computer science, is behind the “Bernie Sits” app.

Users can put in any address and wait a few seconds before you show up in front of their house.

As a college student who does not get a free college education, Sawhney has asked for donations to keep the server that runs the app going.

“The server costs money to keep running and stable, which is currently coming out of my own pocket,” he wrote. “Google also charges me each time someone uses the site for using the maps.”

Nothing is free, Bernie.