Red Guy Blue Guy

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

As a picture, the first instance of a Blue Guy VS Red Guy was created by DeviantART user miniamericanflags on February 11th 2007 as way to share criticisms over the Socialism system as a way of life^[1].

The earliest appearance of the meme on the internet was on the popular imageboard site, 4chan, on September 13, 2009^[2]. 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^[3] 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 ^[4].

External References

^[1] Deviant Art – Socialism / 2-11-2007

^[2]4chanarchive [Caution: Possible NSFW content ahead] – Economics and Government with Red guy and Blue guy / 9-13-2009

^[3] Breakfeast Science forum – Red Guy Blue Guy – ARTS AND CRAFTS TIME FUCKERS / 9-13-2009

^[4] Reddit – Red guy, blue guy, guns and money ]PIC[ / 9-30-2009