Alex Kack is a field organizer with the People's Defense Initiative and a meme. The views expressed in this commentary belong to the author. View more opinion at CNN.

(CNN) Being famous for nothing is a strange thing to process.

On Tuesday night, I attended a City Council meeting in Tucson, Arizona, and the next morning, I woke up as a meme.

Alex Kack

It started when my colleagues and I went to witness the mayor and City Council vote on whether to place our Sanctuary City community-led initiative Tucson Families Free & Together on the ballot for the municipal elections this fall. This vote was purely procedural, as we had gathered enough signatures to qualify. We expected a very straightforward, uneventful meeting. Instead, what followed was a bizarre circus of local political theater that wound up being seen around the world.

Two anti-immigration activists created an uproar. During the meeting, they began to yell and wave their signs around while one filmed the commotion on her phone. It was obvious that they had missed the entire point: that this was just a formality and the requirements to get the measure on the ballot had been met.

Some people fled the awkwardness, others booed and tried to yell over them, one man clutched his banjo, and I just sat there and laughed.

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