With a simple string of tweets,Watch Mirror Twins Online a year's worth of work vanished for Jared Yates Sexton, an independent journalist chasing a story about Donald Trump Jr. and his communication with a Russian lawyer.

And with a simple tweet from Sexton following the chaos of Trump Jr.'s emails, a meme was born.

"I...worked on this story for a year...and...he just...he tweeted it out," Sexton wrote on Twitter Tuesday, explaining that he spent a long time chasing sources and hitting "dead ends" before Trump Jr. tweeted the proof of collusion between the Trump family and Russia.

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Now, his exasperated remark has taken a life on it's own and the tweets are hilarious.

Folks have been taking random comments on Twitter and repurposing Sexton's real frustration into funny tweets.

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If only someone really did do a year's worth of research into Ted Cruz's tweet about a cow made of butter.

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That's the kind of journalism we really need now more than ever.