While they're most famous for their roles as mischievous sidekicks in the Despicable Me movie franchise, this website is dedicated to the understanding of the usage of minions as a rhetorical device online. Perhaps the most well-known character in all of current pop culture, the minion has transformed into the unwitting mouthpiece for a thousand sentiments, from harmless to vile,  somehow becoming a reflection of the current fractured state of the American sociopolitical landscape.

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Minion Memes

The minion is a blank slate. In the movies, they do not speak English, only gibberish, but online they have been given the voices of their creators. 

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Politicized Minions

The minions are made to say strange, sometimes awful things and are forced to stand for all sorts of conflicting ideologies. They do not have control over the words attributed to them. Pity the minion.

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Minion Opinion

The minions inspire strong opinion even as they are only figureheads, 9th century Japanese emperors to the daimyo meme creators. I cry for the minion.

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