Okay, enough with the Obama poster parodies! We get it!

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Shepard "Obey" Fairey must be feeling pretty good right about now. The street artist's portrait of President Obama is not only hanging in the Smithsonian, but it's also being parodied to the point where the joke has gone from being funny to not funny about fifty times.

Here are just a few examples of what I'm talking about:

      

What's next, Rope? Mope? Cope?

Something needs to be done here, or else we're going to be caught in another bad pop culture craze like "Baby on Board" signs or those pictures you have to cross your eyes to see. Fairey is a great, inventive artist (I have a beautiful print of his on my living room wall)! He shouldn't be turned into a joke!