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Persuadable Bouncer is an exploitable 4-panel comic series featuring a man in a suit blocking a door, and allowing the entrance in the fourth panel. Similar to the #UpgradeChallenge, the jokes center around one picture that is less impressive than the second. The comics started gaining traction in the middle of September 2016 due its use on the /r/me_irl subreddit.

Origin

The pictures come from Twitter user @xMarnBBK,^[5][17] which were consequently shared by his friends' accounts, being the the earliest recorded use of the pictures comes from the Twitter user @sophiaTweel on March 20th, 2015.^[8] The earliest instance of the comic comes from user @whiteandfaded, who uploaded xMarnBBK's pictures along with a Twitter.^[16]

Spread

On April 16th, 2016, a reposted picture from an unknown Facebook page was uploaded to Onsizzle,^[6] featuring a man in a suit denying the pass to a Loss edit but allowing it to Pennis and Also Dicke and Balls. On August 26th, 2016, Twitter user @shurikenfaire uploaded a version of the comic including birds on skateboards, gaining over 100 retweets and 120 likes in less than a month.^[7]

In the following weeks, dozens of variations were posted to /r/me_irl^[13][14][15], regularly gaining thousands of upvotes.

Collegehumor^[10] and Smosh^[11] both posted roundups of Persuadable Bouncer memes, citing the above bird variation as the catalyst for the spread. A thread on "/r/outoftheloop"^[12] devoted to Persuadable Bouncer appeared on September 13th, 2016, and gained 371 points, 88% upvotes, in three days. On September 15th, a reddit bot named BouncerBot was created, allowing the creation of comics.^[9]

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