Life & CultureNewsLife & Culture / NewsPenis rockets and cowboy hats: a roundup of the best Jeff Bezos space memesThe billionaire blasted off into space aboard a 60-foot tall phallus, memes ensuedShareLink copied ✔️July 21, 2021July 21, 2021TextGünseli Yalcinkaya Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest person and the founder of Amazon, blazed to space aboard a 60-foot tall penis rocket yesterday (July 20). Accompanied by fellow billionaire and brother Mark Bezos, astronautical pioneer Wally Funk, and a Dutch physics student, the crew flew just outside the Earth’s atmosphere for a grand total of 11 minutes, emitting more carbon monoxide than a car would in centuries of driving. Bezos thanked Amazon employees and customers after landing, saying, “You guys paid for all of this”. Of course, he failed to mention the company’s dire working conditions, which include employees reportedly having to pee in bottles because the bathroom breaks they are granted don’t allow them enough time to travel there and back, and heat map surveillance to detect if too many employees are gathering in the same place at the same time. Not to mention the time he used police violence to harass Black workers in Alabama and concocted fake Twitter profiles of Amazon workers in a hilariously bad attempt to defend the company. Environmental disaster and gross displays of wealth aside, many people have pointed out the similarities between Bezos’ rocket and a phallus. Specifically, the shape was compared to images of Dr Evil’s rocket from The Spy Who Shagged Me, the 1999 Austin Powers film that features the villain blasting off in a penis-shaped spaceship. Others have remarked on Bezos’ cowboy hat and noticeably taut facial features. Enjoy a roundup of the best memes below. The entire internet watching Jeff Bezos fly into space. pic.twitter.com/3g7bxjNETM— Jesse McLaren (@McJesse) July 20, 2021Way more interested in the fact that Jeff Bezos got Botox and filler to fly into outer space than the actual space travel itself pic.twitter.com/AfxoHDNJQz— Hannah Tindle (@hannahtindle) July 20, 2021Nice penis rocket now let your workers unionize. pic.twitter.com/Zx5T7YflrM— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) July 20, 2021Same day delivery https://t.co/AwHdM87qKe— Julia Macfarlane 🇮🇩🏴 (@juliamacfarlane) July 20, 2021The entire internet watching Jeff Bezos fly into space. pic.twitter.com/3g7bxjNETM— Jesse McLaren (@McJesse) July 20, 2021wake me up when Bezos spends as much time in space as a dog pic.twitter.com/ebmptQUK42— Alex Shephard (@alex_shephard) July 20, 2021Jeff Bezos has decided he will not end world hunger today.— Has Jeff Bezos Decided To End World Hunger? (@HasBezosDecided) July 20, 2021Did Jeff Bezos model his rocketship after the one in Flesh Gordon? pic.twitter.com/yiy5qKdLxg— MZS (@mattzollerseitz) July 21, 2021Jeff Bezos thanks everyone who bought a funky mushroom shaped lamp when you were crossfaded at 3AM and when it arrived it was comically small, because *you* paid for this 🚀💦— Maggie Mae Fish 🐟 (@MaggieMaeFish) July 21, 2021He did his filler lol pic.twitter.com/kx9a1hFqgc— die-nah (@DinahDie) July 20, 2021Life is Austin Powers now. pic.twitter.com/G4MPEd0XWv— Karl’s farm hand (@MotherofPups) July 20, 2021All of us watching the #BlueOrigin launch pic.twitter.com/aesmaWlo7I— Saint Hoax (@SaintHoax) July 20, 2021Men will literally launch themselves into space in a penis rocket instead of going to therapy. pic.twitter.com/W2gH99Dz6U— Ramblin Mama (@ramblinma) July 20, 2021check out this bald chump who spent billions to 'visit space' for a shorter time than any given geoff marshall video— Stan Cross (@tristandross) July 20, 2021Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREIs Substack still a space for writers and readers?‘It’s self-consciously cool’: Inside the chess club boomWoke is back – or is it?What can extinct, 40,000-year-old Neanderthals teach us about being human?Inside the UK’s accelerating crackdown on student protestsHow is AI changing sex work? Where have all the vegans gone?Could ‘Bricking’ my phone make me feel something?Love is not embarrassing ‘We’re trapped in hell’: Tea Hačić-Vlahović on her darkly comic new novelChris Kraus selects: What to do, read and watch this monthWe asked young Americans how their job search is going