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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by Steven Smith
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