How Many Upvotes For Our Boys In Blue?

About

How Many Upvotes For Our Boys in Blue? refers to a series of posts popular on Reddit that parody posts popular on Facebook in which the poster bemoans the fact that certain celebrities or half-naked women can generate thousands of likes before asking how many likes can policemen ("Boys in Blue") can get. In the parodies, the poster asks a variation of "How many upvotes can our boys in blue get?" and posts a picture of various blue characters instead of policemen.

Origin

The type of post the joke parodies is popularly shared on Facebook by supporters of police and the military. Generally, these posts complain about the popularity of "half-naked girls" online, then ask how many likes a member of the armed forces or police can get.

On December 5th, 2016, Reddit user TankIFuckingAm posted a photo of the Mr. Meeseeks characters to the Rick and Morty subreddit, captioned "Half naked women get thousands of up votes; how many for our boys in blue?"^[1] The post, shown below, gained over 6,700 points in a day and made the front page of Reddit.^[2]

Spread

The popularity of the joke inspired dozens of variations in which the picture of the "boys in blue" was replaced by different blue characters from various television shows, video games, and popular media. A thread asking about the joke was posted to /r/OutOfTheLoop^[2] the next day and received 650 points.^[2] The Daily Dot^[3] also covered it that day. In the /r/MemeEconomy, user HeHasABanana^[4] encouraged members to "buy" as the meme increased in popularity in a post that gained 429 points.

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