Someone Explain This Picture

Someone Explain This Picture

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Added Apr 09, 2015 at 05:11PM EDT by Sam_Quinee.

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"Someone Explain This Picture" is an expression often used to caption screen captured images and animated GIFs from a variety of television series, urging viewers to provide a tongue-in-cheek description of what is occurring in the image.

Origin

On November 12th, 2014, Tumblr[5] user "themaskednegro" highlighted a screen capture of a a WWE match in which the wrestlers are shown fighting on ladders, requesting those who are unfamiliar with wrestling attempt to explain what is happening in the image. Tumblr user teadalek responded to the post identifying the show as "competitive lightbulb replacement" (shown below). In the following five months, teadalek's reply has gathered more than 199.000 notes.[4]


teadalek: themaskednegro: I want someone who doesn't watch wrestling to explain to me whats happening in this scene #competitive lightbulb replacement

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On December 24th, a screenshot of teadalek's post was submitted to Imgur,[1] where it gained over 726,000 views and 5,251 points in four months. On March 14th, 2015, Tumblr user madohomos uploaded several screen captures from the TV series Steven Universe, followed by a request for people to explain the scene. Within one month, the post gathered more than 10.700 views[3].


CN CN CN CN susurrationofthewind: madohomos: someone who doesnt watch steven universe tell me what's going on here overcome by the pointlessness of existence, the clown-ballerina has decided to embrace the sweetness of death through choking on pie. her companions, the purple hunchback and squarelord, find this agreeable

The post began developing into a snowclone in the coming months, where "wrestling" was replaced with another television show. On March 28th, 2015, user blargeybarble[6] posted a version with Steven Universe that gained over 48,000 notes.


Someone outside the SU fandom tell me what's going on here

Over the following years, the snowclone appeared with several other television shows, leading to it to be documented by memearchives.[7]

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5 crash-mcbarason: spitblaze: Someone who's never seen Codename: Kids Next Door explain what's going on in this picture plebeiantologist colbrt: Someone who hasn't seen cutthroat kitchen, explain this 彡 #bol cocomocoa. Someone who's never watcahed Bob's Burgers explain this NEW EPISODE CARTOON NETWORK fiireforaheart: exhaustedapostate: Someone who hasn't seen Steven Universe needs to caption this day four of comic con KISSCARTOON OREC netbug009 Somebody who hasn't seen We Bare Bears explain. sanicdahegehog SOMEONE WHO DOESNT WATCH WRESTLING EXPLAIN THIS Originally posted by totaldivasepisodes

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