About

People Who Watch Rick and Morty is a multi-pane image macros series that uses characters from SpongeBob SquarePants, particularly an image oh SpongeBob in glasses, to express the perceived and frequently mocked pretentiousness of fans of the animated sitcom Rick and Morty. As the meme sprad, they took on elements of increasingly verbose memes, similar to expanding brain.

Origin

On October 7th, 2017, Redditor ^[1] Theboss12312 posted an image macro to the /r/dankmemes subreddit of SpongeBob as a zombie next to a bespectacled SpongeBob reading a book. The images were captioned "People who watch Rick and Morty" and "Individuals whom watch Dora the explorer," respectively. The post (shown below) received more than 32,000 points (88% upvoted) and 300 comments in less than two months.

Spread

Shortly after the image was posted, the was reposted to the /r/me_irl] where it received more than 4,400 points (97% upvoted) in two months.

That day, Redditor^[3] comradelenin456 on the /r/dankmemes subreddit added a third-panel to the meme, one of Squidward and the caption "Individuals whom prospect curious George" above him. The post (shown below, right) received more than 3,000 points (97% upvoted) in less than two months.

Throughout the day, Redditors^[4][5] on /r/dankmemes continued to add panels to the meme, featuring more characters from SpongeBob referencing the intelligence required to understand different children's television shows (shown below, center and right) and using the word "whomst"/memes/whomst to highlight increasingly pretentious tone of voice.

Nearly two months later, Redditor^[6] xb3nSAVAGE posted a variation on the meme on the /r/dankmemes subreddit. Here, the captions were altered to "People who listen to Mozart / People who listen to Lil Pump / Singular persons of the homosapien race whomst choose to obvserve auditory vibrations of the score Kids Bop." The post (shown below) received more than 3,400 points (97% upvoted) in 24 hours.

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