Ah, I See You're a Man of Culture As Well

About

I See You're a Man of Culture is a reaction image featuring a screenshot of the character Last Samurai from the anime Arakawa Under the Bridge with the caption "Ah, I see you're a man of culture as well." The image is often accompanied by mock dialogues used to express good taste in a specific hobby or interest. However, some report that the subtitles in the meme are not official.

Origin

In Season 2 Episode 9 of Arakawa Under the Bridge, originally aired on November 28th, 2010, the character Last Samurai is shown coyly uttering the phrase "Ah, I see you are a man of culture as well" when discussing the top knot hairstyle around 17 minutes into the episode (shown below).

On November 16th, 2015, a 4chan user replied to a thread on the /ck/ (cooking) board discussing chain pizza restaurants with a screenshot of the scene (shown below).^[8]

Spread

On March 7th, 2017, the Weebs making fun of weebs for being weebs Facebook page posted the screenshot captioned with a dialogue in which a friend selects "thighs" over "ass" and "tits" (shown below). The following day, the image was reposted by the @dankest_memes_m8 Instagram page.^[6]

On March 11th, 2017, Redditor Noodletank submitted a post advising readers to "invest quickly" in the reaction image to /r/MemeEconomy.^[2] On March 13th, Redditor ShreksAnus69 posted a version of the image espousing a taste for ''illegal Minecraft x Roblox trap hentai'' to /r/dankmemes,^[5] where it received upwards of 2,700 votes (98% upvoted) within one week (shown below, left). On May 15th, 2016, a 4chan user submitted a post asking where the "man of culture" meme originated to the /wsr/ (work safe requests) board, where another user replied with a screenshot of the Arakawa Under the Bridge scene.^[1] That day, Redditor AssaSinLife posted a Runescape-themed image macro to the /r/2007scape^[3] subreddit (shown below, right).

On March 19th, Redditor ChrisEvans19 submitted an image macro joking about mechanical keyboard switches to the /r/MechanicalKeyboards^[4] subreddit, where it gained over 2,600 votes (91% upvoted) and 200 comments with 72 hours (shown below, left). On March 21st, a version of the meme sarcastically claiming that Hitler was from Australia was uploaded to 9gag^[7] (shown below, right).

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