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"See? Nobody Cares" is a catchphrase uttered by character Dennis Nedry in a dialogue scene from the 1993 science-fiction film Jurassic Park. On the Internet, the phrase has been frequently used as a reaction image to convey indifference or apathy towards someone soliciting unwarranted attention.

Origin

The memorable quote was originally featured in a dialogue segment from Jurassic Park wherein park employee and computer programmer Dennis Nedry (played by Wayne Knight) teases the head of research lab Lew Dodgson (played by Cameron Thor) for wearing a disguise while meeting at the terrace of a restaurant. A clip of the scene was uploaded to YouTube on July 11th, 2009 (shown below).

Dennis Nedry: [waving] "Dodgson!"
Lew Dodgson: [sitting down] "You shouldn't use my name."
Dennis Nedry: [loudly] "Dodgson, Dodgson, we've got Dodgson here! Nobody cares. Nice hat. What are you trying to look like, a secret agent?"

On March 13th, 2007, the earliest known online parody of the scene was uploaded to YTMND user keatonkeaton999 in a page titled "Dodgson (fun times mix),"^[7] which garnered nearly 180,000 views over the next seven years.

Spread

Between 2007 and 2009, more than a dozen additional YTMND pages^[8] featuring Dennis Nedry's quote were submitted to the site, though none of them were able to live up to the popularity of the original remix. Then on November 25th, 2012, a two-pane image macro template depicting the dialogue scene was submitted to Memegenerator^[1], where it went on to spawn more than 50,000 variations, as of December 2014, during which the rhetorical question "See?" was added for additional emphasis. In 2013, the series continued to proliferate through a number of other image macro generator sites, including Quickmeme ^[2] and Imgflip^[4], with several notable instances making appearances on WeKnowMeme^[5], MemeCenter^[6] and Car-memes.com.^[3]

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