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**"Guy Who Fought to Ban TikTok Now Becomes Its Unlikely Star: Congressman Chip Roy Goes Viral for All the Wrong (Read: Hilarious) Reasons"**
**WASHINGTON, D.C.** – In a twist that would make Alanis Morissette rewrite "Ironic," Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX)—the architect of multiple bills aimed at banning TikTok for national security risks—has himself become the platform’s most unlikely sensation.
It all started when a C-SPAN clip of Roy angrily filibustering a spending bill was set to a sped-up remix of the *Super Mario Bros.* underground theme. The meme, captioned "Me trying to explain why I'm late when my boss asks," has since spawned a genre known as "ChipCore." Timelines are now flooded with Roy’s pixelated face reacting to gas prices, his own chaotic committee hearings, and—cruelest of all—footage of him trying to unlock an iPhone with a QR code.
Political analysts are baffled. "We’ve never seen a man legislate against a platform so hard, only to become its founder in spirit," said Dr. Kelsey Quinn of the Institute for Digital Irony. "It’s like if Greta Thunberg opened an oil refinery."
The irony apex came Tuesday when a viral "Chip Roy edit" using a *Sea Shanty* filter was viewed 12 million times in three hours—crashing a server that, ironically, was in the cloud he voted to defund. When asked for comment, Roy’s office released a statement that read, "This is exactly what’s wrong with America," which was immediately turned into a TikTok sound.
**The verdict:** Chip Roy didn't kill the social media monster. He became its most cursed meme daddy. 🕺🇺🇸🤡