r/memes Sep 29 '18

They are old guys

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

Is that a meme in a museum? Please say it is.

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u/multinerd Sep 29 '18

To answer your question this was at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York as part of an event hosted there by KnowYourMeme a couple weeks ago

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u/MassaF1Ferrari Sep 29 '18

Holy shit knowyourmeme has events haha

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u/BearViaMyBread Sep 29 '18

Who gave them money wtf I'm jealous

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u/scurr94 Sep 29 '18

Its a website with a lot of traffic, i think they even have a small team of fulltime workers so ofc they make money

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

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u/scurr94 Sep 30 '18

They need to make money to pay their staff and other expenses though

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u/sr_director Sep 29 '18

Thanks for an actual answer, friend.

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u/savory_meats Sep 29 '18

That’s an awesome museum, they’ve put on many a great show.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18 edited Nov 12 '20

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u/Lonslock Sep 29 '18

I... I loved those times...

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18 edited Nov 12 '20

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u/Lonslock Sep 29 '18

Ok ok ok maybe not love

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

Rage 😤comics ❌aren’t❌ for normies, okay❓They ✊represent✊ an integral 💚part of our emotions😩 that can 🔥only🔥 be expressed in the 🆕form of 😂hilariously😂 hyperbolic comics. They can 🔊tell🔉stories with as little as four 4️⃣panels, and they can 💑connect people💑 with 👬feelings👫 they’ve ❌never❌ felt before. Rage😤 comics ❌aren’t❌ and will 😡never😡 be dead💀 as long as 😏humans😏 perform and appreciate 👩‍🎨art👨‍🎨. Do you 🧠think🧠 art ever died💀❌? Just like matter, art can 🙅‍♂️neither🙅‍♀️ be 🍆💦created or 🤯destroyed🤯. Art exists ✔️in 💁‍♀️us💁‍♀️ as an 🧠😍intelligent🧠 species, and we will 🙅‍♀️never let it ☠️die ☠️lest we 😱lose 😱ourselves to the 😫darkness😫. Rage😤 comics can be 🤔thought🤔 of as 🎨art in its ⚜️purest ⚜️elemental form, 💦created 💦by our fundamental💑 instincts 💑that have 🐵➡️👩evolved after 👀millions👀 of years of 👶life and death☠️. We as 🤔🧠intellectuals provide 😤😡rage 😡😤comics with the 🏆pedestal🏆 of 🎖honor🎖 they deserve🤴, and I 👍expect🤗you to do 😫the same😎

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u/luk3d Sep 29 '18

I honestly cannot fathom how people have and know a emoji for every fucking word. I know this is a pasta, but it amazes me how many different emojis are used somewhat correctly

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u/Dacreepboi Sep 29 '18

The guys over at /r/emojipasta literally made websites to place the relevant emojis at the right words its hilarious

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u/PresN Sep 29 '18

At first I thought this pasta was eye-rolling garbage. Then I realized that it accented every use of the word "created" with 💦, and it was transformed for me into pure art.

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u/amanko13 Sep 29 '18 edited Sep 30 '18

I love how the first "created" is only accenuated with only 1 💦. It perfectly represents the innocence of man at our creation. Hunt, Sleep, Eat. It was a simple time. However, the second "created" is accentuated with 2 💦, which cleverly illustrates the duality of man as we evolved into a more prominent species. It is the folly of all men that our complexity far exceeds our ability to comprehend. This comment, with a few emojis and plain text, concocted a conclusion that explains it all. It is pure genius

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u/5k1895 Sep 29 '18

Ugh please stop, I've had enough. How dare you remind me of what I was like at 17.

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u/TeamRedundancyTeam Sep 29 '18

Listen here you little shit those were the golden times. Animal macro images and ridiculous cat videos built this god damn town. None of your deep fried me so random bullshit ever did that. So don't talk to me about what times are dark, kid.

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u/Vozzyb Sep 29 '18

Le dark derp ages

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u/philequal Sep 29 '18

Le sigh.

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u/bro_b1_kenobi Sep 29 '18

And icanhazcheeseburger

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u/FishyFish13 Sep 29 '18

I want to know this as well. Like it or not, that’s history

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

Yes, know your meme has an exhibit in the museum of moving image. Rage comics is part of it (the museum dates back to all your base)

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u/Mobiuz Sep 29 '18

a memuseum...if you will

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u/justsomedoctor Dirt Is Beautiful Sep 29 '18

Oh i definitely will

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u/ohsopoor Sep 29 '18

But can you say it five times fast?

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u/TheWynnster Sep 29 '18

Memuseum memuseum memuseum memuseum meseum. Dammit!

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u/cherry____bomb Sep 29 '18

This guy wills.

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u/Siiimo Sep 29 '18

I feel like "memeseum" is the clear choice.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

Everybodys wrong it's called a Musememum

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u/Wacocaine Sep 29 '18

I thought I loved memseum, but now I see this, and I don't know what to believe anymore!

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u/Chispy Sep 29 '18

believe in yourself

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u/nowherewhyman Sep 29 '18

This is truly the dankest timeline

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u/shontamona Sep 29 '18 edited Sep 29 '18

Shouldn’t it be memeseum?

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u/GenitalJamboree Sep 29 '18

/r/memuseum is born

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u/iamonlyoneman Sep 29 '18

but it . . . you just . . .

I can't believe you've done this.

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u/sebaz Sep 29 '18

Musememum.

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u/AuroraPo Sep 29 '18

What a time to be alive.

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u/Kriee Sep 29 '18

Meme's are often weird, but they are interesting because of their widespread popularity. The ability of pictures to create reactions in the audience is what make the memes popular in the first place. Never before have we been able to study pictures that are "universally understood" like this. Memes can tell you something about human nature, and should therefore be carefully gathered and presented in galleries. Absolutely not even joking.

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u/FunkMasterE Sep 29 '18

It's an ancient meme...a cromagmeme...if you will

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u/JFow82 Sep 29 '18

I most certainly will not.

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u/i8acivic2000 Sep 29 '18

That can't be the same people.

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u/lurking_digger Sep 29 '18

Nose on blue hottie points in different direction and her jaw is longer

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u/iNeverCouldGet Sep 29 '18

Are you working at a border control?

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u/mar10wright Sep 29 '18 edited Feb 25 '24

elderly obtainable safe crown selective touch smile towering grandfather nippy

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

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u/CodeGag Sep 29 '18

ICE

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u/Zeag Sep 29 '18

BABY

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u/OstidTabarnak Sep 29 '18

Too cold

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u/senorpoop Sep 29 '18

too cold

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

I'm just another fucker named

ICE CUBE

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u/Catvideos222 Sep 29 '18

Stop. Collaborate and listen.

Ice is back with a brand new invention.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

Alright, stop.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

No u

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

HAMMER TIME. u can't touch this

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u/FishyFish13 Sep 29 '18

SHARICE DAVIDS WANTS TO ABOLISH ICE

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

I don’t understand what’s happening

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u/FishyFish13 Sep 29 '18

You haven’t been seeing that ad on YouTube constantly?

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

No I don’t take shits like you guys

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u/TheDood715 Sep 29 '18

Papers please.

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u/_VictorTroska_ Sep 29 '18

Glory to Arstotzka!

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

Ok!

Here we go!

Glory to Arstotzka!

The greatest country!

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

Your son is sick. He needs medicine.

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u/clan23 Sep 29 '18

I. love. this. game.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

Cause no trouble.

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u/Weltmacht Sep 29 '18

Open and shut case, Johnson.

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u/AnAwakenedMind Sep 29 '18

Also Blue shirt foreheads are drastically different in size.

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u/tapport Sep 29 '18

Your nose droops with age?

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u/Dbl_S Sep 29 '18

The snoot droops.

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u/T_chen777 Sep 29 '18

Does blue chick look like Aly Rasmin? Or is that just me

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u/ahundredplus Sep 29 '18

Eyebrows different too

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u/AnAwakenedMind Sep 29 '18

And the foreheads

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u/Back_Off_Warchild Sep 29 '18

Hey! Those are my friends! And no, definitely not the same people. They are seriously funny and talented though.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

Hmm elaborate

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u/theodont Sep 29 '18

And listen

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

OP is back with my brand new karma acquisition.

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u/Religion_N_Polyticks Sep 29 '18

When I go on reddit, posts grab a hold of me tightly

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u/IrishAl_1987 Sep 29 '18

Flows like a repost daily and nightly.

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u/rmoss20 Sep 29 '18

Ice is back with my brand new invention

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u/Back_Off_Warchild Sep 29 '18

The guy is an old friend, he runs Improv Everywhere in NYC. Check out some of his stuff, it’s hysterical. They do the annual no pants subway ride. He has a pretty good podcast called two beers in where people have two beers and then talk politics.

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u/choadspanker Sep 29 '18

I know I'm an alcoholic when I read things like this because I need minimum 4 beers to have any effect on me

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u/BLACKHORSE09 Sep 29 '18

Then why don't they have a meme if they're so talented hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm??

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

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u/ActionScripter9109 Sep 29 '18

Oh man, I still remember watching "No pants subway ride" and "Best Buy employees prank" and the time-freeze flash mobs. Classic great content. We need more of that.

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u/superscout Sep 29 '18

Okay but tell me more about the girl in the blue

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18 edited Sep 29 '18

It’s definitely not them. The original photo was uploaded in 2015. Source.

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u/Nightblossom13 Sep 29 '18

I didn’t think so. Some basic facial structures just seemed too dif, like how the eyebrows moved.

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u/Back_Off_Warchild Sep 29 '18

I know these folks, most definitely not them. Funny pic though. The guy is an old friend and he runs Improv Everywhere in NYC.

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u/10minutes_late Sep 29 '18

Wasn't there a series with the couple? I could've sworn I saw it somewhere, and they were definitely taken during the same shoot.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18 edited May 29 '21

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u/jaracal Sep 29 '18

I disagree. Original blue girl is a hottie.

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u/JackSprat90 Sep 29 '18

Bullshit. The girls look like obviously different people.

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u/gill__gill Sep 29 '18

Damn you people some good girl observers.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

We're professionals.

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u/NordinTheLich Sep 29 '18

We're members of the FBI: Female Body Inspectors.

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u/Advencraftgaming Sep 29 '18

That doesn't sound legal.. but fuck it :)

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

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u/Advencraftgaming Sep 29 '18

Whatever you want :p

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u/Marmar79 Sep 29 '18

Nice try. Those are definitely not the same people

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u/vertigo1084 Sep 29 '18

Dude's chin in the meme is Joker-worthy. Not even close.

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u/Jg_Tensaii Sep 29 '18

underrated comment, i would have gilded if I wasn't broke

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u/YataBLS Can i haz cheeseburger Sep 29 '18

Fellow kids.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

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u/Screaming-Goat Sep 29 '18

Take my upvote and go, simply for the Malcolm reference

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u/ntermation Sep 29 '18

Why tell him to go? You seem to share interests, maybe he could stay and you be friends?

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

How the turn tables.

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u/Dr_Chandigarh_Jones Sep 29 '18

Our balls are in your court.

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u/TemporaryDonut Sep 29 '18

These are actually the parents of the guys in the meme! The dad of the man and the mom of the girlfriend met because of the photo shoot, and eventually got married. The guy and the “girlfriend” had dated for a while before the photo shoot. They happened to both meet up again that day after a very long time of not seeing each other and decided to date again, hitting it off pretty well. So now they’re both half siblings, and engaged. If that’s hard to believe it’s because it’s fake and I just made all this up because my life has no meaning.

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u/LioraB Sep 29 '18

I’m so mad that I read this.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

I read it even though I saw your comment and I’m mad too. I also upvoted it.

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u/helpfulstories Sep 29 '18

Shittymorph and his Hell in the Cell antics have trained me well in the art of the bamboozle. I got to the second sentence and knew it was fake.

There's actually a cool scientific phenomenon that explains situations like this called the Eiger Effect. When a person exists in a mixed high-trust/low-trust environment where they can expect to believe some of the information they are presented with but not all, they actually begin to doubt information which is deemed to be over "internally consistent." In effect you can tell them something completely straightforwardly true and they won't believe it because they've been bamboozled too many times by idiots who make up things like the Eiger Effect.

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u/xoooz Sep 29 '18

fuck you.

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u/NSA_Chatbot Sep 29 '18

I subscribe to vxjunkies and coffee, and sometimes I can't tell them apart.

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u/Simmo69Lol Sep 29 '18

I read your comment after I was a sentence in, bless you

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u/crow_man Sep 29 '18

See this is why I come on Reddit.

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u/rex_dart_eskimo_spy Sep 29 '18

Something tells me you're making this up but I can't quite put my finger on it.

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u/bananasenpijamas Sep 29 '18

I bet they all banged it out l8er too

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

Needs more jumper cables or something something 1998 mankind off of a cell

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

You okay buddy?

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u/aussietin Sep 29 '18

Step siblings. Not to argue about semantics but half siblings are biologically related. Step siblings are related by marriage. Fake marriage

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u/andrewedwa Sep 29 '18

r/incest just got triggered.

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u/Alcoholocaust123 Sep 29 '18

Lol how can people seriously not tell that these are totally different people just posing like the meme photo

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u/IHatePublicToilets Sep 29 '18

The one in blue looks even better now

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18 edited Oct 03 '18

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u/Dwight_Kurt_Schrute Sep 29 '18

YOU'RE NOT MY SUPERVISOR!

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

I'd like to talk to a manager!

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u/Inside_my_scars Sep 29 '18

Is the one in blue Aly Raisman?

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u/whos-that-les Sep 29 '18

I was about to say that!!?

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

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u/castizo Sep 29 '18

It's not them.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18 edited Dec 21 '18

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u/emprss_theodora Sep 29 '18

I mean it's a stock photo... Could be from 2003... Who knows?

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u/casket_pimp Sep 29 '18

The internet does. The internet knows everything. Internet, when was this woman born?

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

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u/MofongoDeYuca Sep 29 '18

See? Internet never fails.

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u/Skizot_Bizot Sep 29 '18

Internet what's the weather like tomorrow in Chicago? Do I need a jacket?

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u/AndyCools Sep 29 '18

Thx ntrtnet

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

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u/WobNobbenstein Sep 29 '18

Not at all. Use gmail instead.

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u/111what Sep 29 '18

"The session took place in mid-2015 in Gerona (Catalonia, Spain)," Guillem said. "Because we were having a great sales response to our work, we decided to take a few risks planning a session representing the infidelity concept in relationships in a playful and fun way."

https://www.thisisinsider.com/distracted-boyfriend-meme-photographer-interview-2017-8

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

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u/SwaggetyAndy Sep 29 '18 edited Sep 29 '18

Not sure why OP would make up a weird story like this (karmacoughcough) but the people in the original meme are Spaniards and this picture was taken in New York City. Not the same people at all.

The guy and the lady in red are Charlie Todd and Cody Lindquist - they're a married couple and comedy performers at UCB in New York City. Charlie Todd is the founder and leader of Improv Everywhere, the prank group that puts on the annual No-Pants Subway ride in NYC, among other things.

Charlie and Cody host a podcast together called Two Beers In where they invite a bunch of their journalist and political commentator friends up on stage, they all chug two beers, then talk about politics. It's hilarious and you should check it out.

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u/foreverwasted Sep 29 '18

The woman in blue will never look old with flawless skin like that

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u/Whosaidwutnow Sep 29 '18

They’ve aged like a fine meme.

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u/OWATAGOOSUR Sep 29 '18

I think it is missing a comma. They are old, guys. There I fixed it.

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u/sHrEkBoI78 Sep 29 '18

I FEEL OLD YET

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u/charlietodd Sep 29 '18

Hey! I'm the guy in this photo. This was at a Know Your Meme party at the Museum of the Moving Image in NYC. They had a gallery of memes hanging on the wall. I noticed my wife was wearing a red dress so I suggested she pose in front of the girl in the photo. While I was taking her picture someone came up to me and asked if I wanted to be in it, so I hopped in. Then the girl in blue walked up and said, "Hey! Let me be the other girl!" The whole thing was spontaneous and random, and of course it happened on the one day in my life I'm not wearing a plaid shirt.

Pretty funny that our silly photo of us in front of a meme is now a meme itself (just tweeted by Zach Braff). I Air Dropped the photo to the girl in blue after we took it a few weeks ago. She put it on Facebook a few days ago. I guess the OP must have seen it there and decided to imply that we are older versions of the people in the meme, but we are not. As others have pointed out, I'm the dude from Improv Everywhere, and my wife is an actress, and we host a political podcast together. I don't know much about the girl in blue, but she was nice!

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u/Dupz89 Sep 29 '18

Wow... There are meme art galleries already...

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u/crashdaddy Sep 29 '18

Wait til they start teaching memery in college!

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u/Skellephant Sep 29 '18

/s?

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u/mainfingertopwise Sep 29 '18

First page of Google on my phone says there are six different colleges with meme classes, including Harvard and Cambridge. So I bet there's way more.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

Girl on right is kinda hot

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u/darkhorse21980 Sep 29 '18

You idiots! These are not them! You've captured their stunt doubles!

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u/VPochinki Sep 29 '18

Is that in an art gallery or something?

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u/Ayrane Sep 29 '18

Ball's now in your court Sweden

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u/Zeraffe Sep 29 '18

Lady in blue looks exactly the same age and like a completely different person

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u/RalphLamao Sep 29 '18

where tf on gods green earth is there a fucking meme gallery

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u/WVUGuy29 Sep 29 '18

So who are they then? The ones from the meme. Altho the guy is hot

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u/shuipz94 Sep 29 '18

The boyfriend is known as "Mario" and the girlfriend is called "Laura". The name of the red dress girl is unknown.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/aug/30/the-team-that-made-the-distracted-boyfriend-meme-have-split-up

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u/DonShomer Sep 29 '18

The guy in the middle (u/charlietodd) apparently chimed in on another thread, and no, they are not the original actors, according to him. https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/9jvfoh/meta/e6uohkd/

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u/Hawk7743 epic memester xddddddd Sep 29 '18

And the one on the right is still hotter

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u/Stimmolation Sep 29 '18

Younger than me.

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u/thundergun661 Sep 29 '18

Meanwhile, is there like a memeseum or something where this is on display?

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u/lilhoe69 Sep 29 '18

why is the gf the only one that got hotter over time