Instagram, Snapchat filters warm up to memes of Bernie Sanders

By now, you’ve seen the classic photo-turnedmeme of Sen. Bernie Sanders sitting during the inauguration of President Joe Biden, arms crossed and hands clad in a pair of mittens.

Now that moment is being immortalized through filters on Snapchat and Instagram.

Users on Snapchat can search for “bernie mittens” to find a lens that places Sanders anywhere in your photo.

Want a mini-Bernie sitting on your desk, or even a friend’s shoulder? Fire up the lens, and you can place a sitting Bernie meme anywhere.

On Instagram, a similar search turned up a filter that can transform a selfie into Sanders, complete with mask, coat and those distinctive mittens. There also is a lens on

Snapchat to place a sitting Bernie wherever you are.

The meme featuring Sanders took off on social media after the lawmaker was captured during the inauguration of Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. Sanders was wearing a Burton coat and knit gloves made in his home state of Vermont.

The Sanders team is even selling a sweatshirt commemorating the meme on the senator’s website. All proceeds from sales of the sweatshirt will go to charity.

According to CNN congressional reporter Ali Zaslav, Sanders said he’s glad the photo and meme “makes people aware that we make good mittens in Vermont . ... We have some good coats as well.”

In an interview on “Late Night With Seth Meyers,” Sanders said the mittens were made by a “very, very nice” schoolteacher who lives in Vermont.

“She has been somewhat overwhelmed by the kind of attention that is being shown to her mittens,” he said.

Unfortunately, don’t expect to buy a pair of mittens like the ones Sanders wore.

“I’m so flattered that Bernie wore them to the inauguration,” Jen Ellis, the teacher who made the mittens, posted on Twitter. “Sadly, I have no more mittens for sale.”