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You all know this image? Well, it’s got derivitaves and spread, so it’s about time to analyse it for memedom. My problem is that I cannot find the origin. Does anybody know?

Most likely 4chan. All their brains are fucked up

I don’t know about the origin (and I don’t visit sites that would likely start this meme) but i’m sure i’ve seen this before.

I’m not sure if one image is enough. “Oh you” is more of a meme than this.

try Google it to find its origins.

I’ve been trying to find where the original picture came from for ages now, actually… (-___-)

It’s actually got many image derivitaves, as seen in this thread.

LOL I did a tineye search and found this:

The earliest instance of it I could find was this tweet. (18 September 2009)

That correlates with Google Insights, which says that people started searching for it around September 2009.

I dunno if that’s the origin, but all i can say is that the trend only gets bigger from September.

Although, the use of the word “fuck” as a non-sexual noun, has been around for quite sometime now, so the phrase could have come from anywhere :/

Well, I guess that’s as close as I’m getting at this point origin-wise. Is it enough to make an entry about?

I say go for it – we can always add an origin later.