Red Guy Blue Guy (2009)

added Oct 08, 2009 at 10:40PM UTC

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AKA Red Guy, Blue Guy, Guns, and Money / Meme Isms

About

Red Guy Blue Guy memes basically consist of sign people, usually colored in red or blue, posed in such a way that they symbolize a sort of ideology, also known as an “-ism” (i.e. socialism, capitalism, libertarianism, etc.), but not necessarily. The blue character often represents the common man while the red character often represents an important figure like a leader of some sort.

Origin

The earliest appearance of the meme on the internet was on the popular imageboard site, 4chan, on September 13, 2009. Although, it might have appeared earlier seeing as the original thread was 404’d.

Spread

This meme has seen some light on a site called Breakbeat Science Forum on the same day that the 4chan thread exploded, but later by an hour than its appearance on 4chan.

It’s most prominent appearance aside from its 4chan appearance was a picture compilation uploaded on the web on September 30, 2009 on several sites such as Reddit.com:

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11 Comments

Jostin Asuncion
Oct 08, 2009 at 10:41PM UTC , Jostin Asuncion wrote:

I have thoughts that this might be a new meme, so I’m sorta iffy about it. Oh well. Article’s been made.

Tomberry
Oct 09, 2009 at 09:16AM UTC , Tomberry wrote:

WoW, I didn’t know there were so much of it.

Joe Mama
Oct 09, 2009 at 04:43PM UTC , Joe Mama wrote:

One thread is not a meme, by the way you can find this thread on the archives.

Jostin Asuncion
Oct 09, 2009 at 09:39PM UTC , Jostin Asuncion wrote:

@ Joe

It’s not only in that one thread on 4chan. It has appeared on other threads such as the one I gave under the Spread heading. It also only started exploding recently, so it’s a new meme that needs more time to see if its development explodes even more or not.

Joeflims
Oct 10, 2009 at 01:28AM UTC , Joeflims wrote:

this should be a meme. it’s an epic win

Joeflims
Oct 10, 2009 at 01:29AM UTC , Joeflims wrote:

this should be a meme. It is full of epic win.

Senor "Conando" F
Oct 12, 2009 at 10:34PM UTC , Senor "Conando" F wrote:

about time this was confirmed

Joe Mama
Oct 24, 2009 at 07:36AM UTC , Joe Mama wrote:

@ Jostin.

Sorry the page was updated with more information, I was just rather ignorant on the subject and commented without thinking.

mtallmen_184
Oct 31, 2009 at 04:21AM UTC , mtallmen_184 wrote:

I was there! I even have some that haven’t been uploaded yet!

Uploading now for great justice

CxOrillion
Jan 18, 2010 at 05:10AM UTC , CxOrillion wrote:

Lol I remember that. Was there.

Randevious
Mar 01, 2010 at 06:12PM UTC , Randevious wrote:

not a meme. sum is gud tho. not gud enuf… not gud enuf.

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