He-Man sees

About

The ‘He-man sees’ meme consists of a page from “Masters of the Universe Coloring and Activity Book” (see article on book here and the page in question is here), which users were encouraged to draw what He-man and Teela of the 80s cartoon show ‘He-man And The Masters of the Universe’ see in the foreground. The meme started in 2006 when YTMND user shlammy created a YTMND featuring a very open-ended picture of He-man and Teela with the caption ‘Draw what you think Teela and He-man see’. Shlammy titled the site, ‘Use Your Imagination’, encouraging YTMND users to, as the caption stated, draw what they thought the characters saw.

Reaction

Overnight, YTMND users created many depictions of what they thought Teela and He-man were seeing. Like most YTMND memes, many users incorporated different popular fads into what the two characters were seeing including:

A-ha
A meteor
A Giant Enemy Crab
Sean Connery
So much beauty
and of course NEDM

Many users did use their imagination however, coming up with some very unique things that He-man and Teela saw including:

The Up and coming YTMND page filled with He-man sees YTMNDs
Hitler’s Visit to Paris
A Rorschach test
Tom Goes to the Mayor

Perhaps some of the most creative were ones where He-man and Teela couldn’t see anything:

because they were banned
because Bart has no imagination
because they are getting attacked from behind

Impact

Overall, the He-man sees meme fizzled out, but not after an impressive amount of YTMNDs were made on the subject.