
Zohran Mamdani, the Internet’s Mayor
Katie Drummond
created: Oct. 20, 2025, 10:30 a.m. | updated: Oct. 20, 2025, 1:44 p.m.
Zohran Mamdani is, quite literally, everywhere.
Much of that conventional media exposure, and Mamdani’s growing celebrity, is a collective byproduct of one single element of his mayoral campaign: a really, really good social strategy.
See: Very Cold Mamdani, emerging from a polar plunge in the Atlantic Ocean with a vow to freeze rent on rent-stabilized apartments.
Forty-five minutes, to be exact, before our interview concludes and Mamdani (security detail in tow) gamely joins WIRED’s photographers on a bustling Manhattan street, posing inside a yellow cab and walking to and fro on the sidewalk.
They also took campaign materials, seemingly so inspired by a mere glimpse of Zaddy Zohran that they were compelled to join his 80,000-strong army of volunteers.
3 hours, 53 minutes ago: WIRED