The Absolute Madman

About

The Absolute Madman refers to a Facebook post that shows an image of two boys who told their friend named Dean to lay down on the floor. The image is often mocked by users for being boastful over a simple feat and has since spawn edits and fan art with other known situations from various events, television shows and video games.

Origin

Though the origin of the post itself is unknown, the earliest known example of it the post getting reposted appeared on May 27th, 2014 on Funnyjunk, ^[1] when user superstephtime posted in a compliation post titled "Cringe Comp" (shown below). As of January 2021, the compilation has gathered more than 1700 upvotes.

On the very same day, the standalone image which was followed by the Neil deGrasse Tyson Reaction image was posted on Cepcerk.^[2]

Spread

On June 1st, 2014, Imgur ^[3] user TurtleThatCanStrut reposted the image and as of January 2021, has gathered more than 5,600 views. On July 3rd, 2014, Reddit user hyug_5 posted the image on /r/4chanMeta,^[4] gaining over 861 points (99% upvoted) prior to being archived. On October 22nd, 2014, Twitter ^[5] user Year 9 Banter tweeted the image, gaining over 2,300 favorites and 2,700 retweets before the account was suspended.

On May 28th, 2014, Funnyjunk^[6] user CrushOrange upload an edited image that shows Dean in the fashion of a Super Smash Bros 4 character announcement as a reply to the Cringe Comp post, gaining over 450 upvotes (shown below, left).^[6] On September 19th, 2014, Funnyjunk^[7] user teranin posted a drawn image titled "HAHAHA oh wow!" which replaces the three people in the original with veteran figures from Nintendo, gaining over 12,000 views (shown below, right).

John Lennon The Absolute Madman

John Lennon The Absolute Madman is an offshoot of the Absolute Madman meme, originating from a 4chan post parodying the original "Absolute Madman" post. On February 15th, 2015, the image became associated with the phrase "absolute madman" in a thread about rare images of recording artists on 4chan's /mu/ (music) board. Since then, the image has been referred to as "John Lennon the Absolute Madman." A post from September 24th pointed out the existence of an unreleased Beatles song titled "Madman".

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