I’ve heard the nasally Ben Shapiro remix playing everywhere from protests to thirst traps, and it always makes me laugh, extra large and extra hard. This time the figurehead of crusty moral panic was noted transphobe Ben Shapiro, who gifted the internet with a pearl-clutching dramatic reading of the song’s lyrics, bowdlerizing them into a dry, dry nursery rhyme about something called a “wet-ass p-word.” (He also tweeted that he and his “doctor wife” agree that the song’s description of p-words sounds like a medical condition, a bedroom self-own the internet hasn’t seen since DJ Khaled’s.) The internet-especially TikTok, which was already making wild remixes like Phantom of the WAP-ra -rejoiced. See, if there’s one thing guaranteed to rile up conservative commentators, it’s successful Black women being sexually suggestive, and the ladies of “WAP” have plenty of suggestions. Jokes of all kinds gushed onto social media-goofy, lewd, empowered, socially anxious, Kylie Jenner-related, and, eventually, political. Megan Thee Stallion and Cardi B’s irreverent banger “WAP” was already the song of this year’s bizarre summer, and then the internet got hold of it. “WAP,” Cardi B featuring Megan Thee Stallion
