On July 15, 2024, X user @rickrudescalves posted (archived) that Republican U.S. Sen. JD Vance of Ohio wrote in his 2016 memoir, "Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis," about ...

AP Retracts Vance-Couch Story On July 24, The Associated Press also published a fact check about the Vance-couch rumor, displaying the headline, "No, JD Vance did not have sex with a couch" (as ...

Users on social media took advantage of the tragic natural disaster in 2025 to resuscitate a viral joke from 2024.

Accessed 9 Jul. 2025. Liles, Jordan. "No, 1st Edition of JD Vance's 'Hillbilly Elegy' Doesn't Mention Couch Cushion 'Eroticism.'" ...

In fact, the joke has become so widespread that the Associated Press published a fact-checking article titled, “No, JD Vance did not have sex with a couch,” before retracting the article and deleting ...

Tim Walz lands a zinger on Vance about that couch story - and attacks him for using Hillbilly Elegy to trash his own ...

In the wake of the tragic floods in Texas that occurred in early July 2025, a stream of rumors and misinformation about the aftermath of the disaster hit social media. One such rumor alleged that U.S.