After not being able to create waves with the old livery at their new car launch, the Red Bull Racing team has taken it upon themselves to break the internet with a ‘stretch’. Their golden boy, Max Verstappen, is usually a stern man who has a few words to say. Not being the most social character, he still has to visually cater to his millions of fans who support him. Trying to take the spotlight away from their rival’s car launch, the Red Bull social media decided to serve us some Max moves.
In a video uploaded by Oracle Red Bull Racing’s Instagram account, a socially awkward Verstappen is seen swinging and stretching. Standing in front of a green screen (which wasn’t utilized by the admin) Max is seen stretching his arms and cracking his knuckles, locking his fingers, and giving an awkward smile in the end.
While these activities are the natural territory of their reserve driver, Daniel Ricciardo, Red Bull’s number 1 still has a long way to go to be okay facing the camera.
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Fans trolled the admin heavily for making Max Verstappen the main character of the cringe fest
The fans couldn’t digest the lack of humor in the post. To add to the reigning champion’s misery, a meme from the times of Titanic was also attached as a second slide in the same post. The meme has a quote saying, “Stretching is a precise, important component of exercise.” And a squirrel of all animals is seen standing with his arms stretched toward the sky. Though it took a life of its own, it wasn’t quite successful in creating the happy ripples like the W14 launch.
Some hilarious comments from the said Instagram post are as follows:
The fans kept suggesting an alternate option of deleting the post to the admin.
“You still have time to delete this”
While many swarmed in to question the credibility and authority of the admin who handles the Milton Keynes team’s social media.
“who let new adm take control 😭”
“Who an earth has taken over socials, jeepers. Even some stories are cringe”
“F1 pls come back, our admin doesn’t know what to post anymore 😭”
A few even questioned the antique nature of the meme, which didn’t make them laugh.
“Admin found the meme on his grandparents Facebook 😂”
“Red bull slowly becoming a meme account 🤨”
Calling the moves mean and equating them with memes, some enjoyed the parallel between the squirrel meme and Verstappen, and others, trying to look at the glass half full, just motivated their favorite.
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“Admin got some meme movesss”
“Man’s getting ready to win another championship!!”
“First slide is max getting ready to destroy the grid ? 😳”
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With the arch-rivals coming face to face in the virtual world today, who do you think will emerge on top in 2023?