**Viral News Snippet: "Patriotic Kenny" Breaks the Internet as Gen Z Reclaims July 4th With Irony, Existential Dread, and a Bald Eagle**
Viral News Snippet: “Patriotic Kenny” Breaks the Internet as Gen Z Reclaims July 4th with Irony, Existential Dread, and a Bald Eagle
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a twist that has left both historians and meme lords baffled, a new viral template dubbed “Patriotic Kenny” is sweeping the nation just in time for Independence Day. The image, a Photoshopped hybrid of South Park’s most hapless fourth-grader wrapped in a tattered American flag and squinting into a bottle rocket, has become the internet’s preferred way to celebrate the Fourth of July: with 100% enthusiasm and 0% sincerity.