My grandmother became a meme and it's kind of my fault
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There are a lot of people who want to go viral and are willing to do anything to achieve it. Then, there are those who go viral by accident. Ana María Rodríguez is one of them.
She's an 85-year-old Uruguayan housewife and the face of the "technological grandmother" meme that sweeped Latin America.
You may have seen it. In the meme she has a tablet and controls it with her index finger. She looks like your typical grandmother — with glasses and short, curly blonde hair. The expression on her face is somewhere between concentrated and smiling.
She didn't ask to go viral. She couldn't stop it either. I know this all too well because she is my Bia, and
