Wyoming Sen. Cynthia Lummis got a glowing-red-eyes profile picture makeover as she joined in a pro-Bitcoin social media meme.
On Friday, the junior Wyoming Republican senator’s campaign Twitter account switched her pleasant standing-in-a-field politician photo to another one that was almost exactly the same, except for the addition of glowing red eyes — or laser eyes, depending on the interpretation.
A Twitter bot that tracks changes to accounts belonging to members of Congress first caught the change in profile picture.
Profile picture: Sen. Cynthia M. Lummis (R-WY) campaign account “CynthiaMLummis”https://t.co/HkFl3ydBNz => https://t.co/4AnKD6begy pic.twitter.com/mADh74XEWn
— Congress Changes (@CongressChanges) February 19, 2021
No, it was not a hack. Lummis’s Senate office explained the change to the Washington Examiner: “Sen. Lummis is a big supporter of digital assets and financial innovation, and the laser eyes are showing that support.”
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Laser eyes are a meme in the pro-Bitcoin internet community. The cryptocurrency hit a $50,000-per-Bitcoin price for the first time on Tuesday and hit a $1 trillion market valuation on Friday. Some social media users are pushing a “#LaserRayUntil100K” meme, advocating changing their profile photos to sport laser eyes until the price per coin hits $100,000.
Lummis is one of the top Senate allies of Bitcoin advocates. She has urged Tesla CEO Elon Musk to move to Wyoming because of its laws favorable to Bitcoin, and she has stated her intention to educate the rest of Congress about cryptocurrencies. Upon her assignment to the Senate Banking Committee earlier this month, she said that she hopes “to shine a light on many of these pioneering efforts and work with federal regulators to ensure that regulation of digital assets are structured to encourage innovation, instead of stifling it.”
According to her latest financial disclosure form filed in January, Lummis owns between $50,001 and $100,000 in Bitcoin.
Former White House communications director and commentator Anthony Scaramucci also joined in the laser eyes meme on Friday.
#NewProfilePic Laser eyes until ? #bitcoin pic.twitter.com/RTaMpxWkyp
— Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) February 19, 2021
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Shortly after the change, Lummis’s Twitter account fired off another tweet: “Priceless: When angry folks think they are ‘dunking on you’ (learning new Twitter-speak every day) but they are just helping to spread the word.”
Priceless: When angry folks think they are ‘dunking on you’ (learning new Twitter-speak every day) but they are just helping to spread the word.
— Cynthia Lummis (@CynthiaMLummis) February 19, 2021
Lummis’s Senate account, meanwhile, posted a tweet praising genetic technological innovation in cloning a black-footed ferret, an animal that is native to Wyoming.
Meeteetse, Wyoming was the birthplace for the recovery of black-footed ferrets in 1981. Incredible to see how genetic cloning is helping to restore diversity among the population as we help these critters come back from the brink of extinction. https://t.co/2tVHylxsep
— Senator Cynthia Lummis (@SenLummis) February 19, 2021
