--- title: Bill Cosby Meme Generator Backfires, Focus on Rape Allegations description: Social media posts focussed on allegations that Cosby sexually assaulted several women, rather than wholesome fun. canonical: https://time.com/3578067/bill-cosby-meme-generator-assault/ author: Justin Worland article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-11T14:19:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:14:30.970Z og:title: Bill Cosby Meme Generator Backfires, Focus on Rape Allegations og:description: Social media posts focussed on allegations that Cosby sexually assaulted several women, rather than wholesome fun. og:url: https://time.com/3578067/bill-cosby-meme-generator-assault/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Bill Cosby Meme Generator Backfires, Focus on Rape Allegations twitter:description: Social media posts focussed on allegations that Cosby sexually assaulted several women, rather than wholesome fun. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Bill Cosby Asked the Internet to Meme Him But Then This Happened  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Nov 11, 2014 2:19 PM UTC  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Nov 11, 2014 2:19 PM UTC If the Internet as we know it today had existed in the 1980s, a Bill Cosby [meme generator](http://time.com/3577002/bill-cosby-meme-generator/) might have been a great idea. People would have had some wholesome fun riffing on his most memorable one-liners. But what did the Cosby of today, who is accused of sexually [assaulting](http://www.vulture.com/2014/09/timeline-of-the-abuse-charges-against-cosby.html) several women, think would happen when his PR team created a meme generator? Whatever they thought, it backfired and has been removed from the Cosby site. See the photos below to see just how much the idea failed. > [](https://twitter.com/Floyd%5FBanks/status/531946772860370944) > [](https://twitter.com/FilmCow/status/531948809644179456) > [](https://twitter.com/TylerIAm/status/531953472695189505) > [](https://twitter.com/ZahraTahirah/status/531945854765367296) > [](https://twitter.com/AdamHammer/status/531952683268075520) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3578067/bill-cosby-meme-generator-assault/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3578067/bill-cosby-meme-generator-assault/"},"headline":"Bill Cosby Asked the Internet to Meme Him But Then This Happened","datePublished":"2014-11-11T14:19:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:14:30.970Z","description":"The Cosby meme generator has been taken down","url":"https://time.com/3578067/bill-cosby-meme-generator-assault/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","viral","memes","Bill Cosby topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Justin Worland","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/justin-worland/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3578067/bill-cosby-meme-generator-assault/","name":"Bill Cosby Asked the Internet to Meme Him But Then This Happened"}}]}] ```