On June 8th, 2020, TikTok user themannyspotted posted a video of someone drawing Manny at an Oregon protest while a person nearby says "The Manny will not be televised," gaining over 900,000 likes. (KYM)

In the ensuing weeks, pictures several graffiti pieces depicting Manny with slogans in support of the protests.

The phrase "The Manny Will Not Be Televised" is a play on Gil Scott-Heron's famous poem and song "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised"

The use of this Diary of A Wimpy Kid character is very random and is very in tune with the rest of Gen Z's meme/protesting activities.

There's a manny website that says, "if you see this symbol anywhere in your everyday life, you need to stop what your doing and sign a petition"

Manny has been a meme before, but we haven't seen a 'Kilroy is Here' scale meme symbol in quite some time.

The author of Diary of a Wimpy Kid does not seem to enjoy seeing his character being used a symbol of BLM protesting, thinking it trivializes the movement's importance.

He has since deleted these tweets, so maybe he's changed his mind?

Gen Z is a very powerful group of internet masters that are going to be organizing important activisms like this for many years to come, I think.