Memes tend to gravitate toward pop stars, politicians and villains. But this week, the internet found a central banker.
Jerome Powell, the 72-year-old chair of the Federal Reserve, is not the kind of guy you’d expect to see flashing across Instagram and Tiktok to the tune of a high-saturated techno remix. Yet, his image has broken containment over the last few days, as Gen Z has turned the famously taciturn technocrat into a symbol of defiance of the second Trump era, clad with reverent edits usually reserved for K-Pop stars.
