Quote 11: You only live once, but if you do it right, once is. Instead, its subject was Chief Justice John Roberts, who sided with the court’s liberals in what could be considered a major YOLO move for the usually conservative justice (via Funny or Die). I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
Update June 29, 2012: After the Supreme Court ruled to uphold the Affordable Care Act on June 28, a YOLO meme did, indeed emerge - but it wasn’t for Obama. “It was his YOLO, an only-live-once all out before the Supreme Court drops one of the most consequential legal decisions in U.S. In a Politic365 article about Obama’s press conference on the Supreme Court’s healthcare decision, in which he said that he was confident that the court would not take the “unprecedented” step of overturning the law, Jeneba Ghatt called it Obama’s YOLO moment: #YOLO”Įven the president isn’t immune from the YOLO craze. #YOLO has spawned some parody accounts: Jokes and both tweet tongue-in-cheek YOLOs like “Not removing my USB safely. But there’s a fine line between living your life to the fullest and making spur-of-the-moment, completely irrational decisions.”
“There’s nothing wrong with taking risks in life and trying new things. “When I see “YOLO” in a tweet, I know instantly that something unintelligent and cocky is going to follow,” she wrote.
Robyn Dexter, campus editor of the Eastern Illinois University’s Daily Eastern News, pointed out the recklessness of #YOLO to her fellow students.
