About

Is That Porn? is a four-panel exploitable based a webcomic by Mr. Lovenstein. In the comic, a mother catches a boy nervously looking a computer only to reveal that he's looking at an optical illusion of a vase that resembles two people kissing. Online, people replace the final panel, changing what the boy is looking at, for comedic effect.

Origin

On January 26th, 2018, webcomics artist Mr. Lovenstein^[1] published a comic of a boy looking nervously at his computer. When his mother approaches and asks, "Is that porn?" he attempts to stop her from looking at the screen and says, "It's a vase." In the final panel, it is revealed that he is looking at an optical illusion of two people kissing that also resembles a vase. The post (shown below) received 6,300 reactions and 800 shares on Facebook. ^[2]

Spread

The following day, Redditor ^[3] fireork12 posted a template version with the word "vase" and the image on the screen photoshopped out in the /r/MemeEconomy. The post (shown below, left) received more than 11,000 points (92% upvoted) and 200 comments in 48 hours.

That day, Redditor^[4] MemeKrabs in the /r/dankmemes photoshopped the comic to show the mother saying "is that a normie subreddit?" The boy responds with "It's dank." The post (shown below, center) received more than 3,000 points (96% upvoted) and 50 comments.

Throughout the day, more people uploaded variations to /r/dankmemes (example below, right)

Various Examples

Search Interest

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