About

Alex Jones' Clones refers to an edited photograph of American talk show host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones walking out of an underground tunnel, with multiple copies of Jones edited into the background. First posted on 4chan in October 2016, the edited photograph has since gained notable popularity as a reaction and an exploitable.

Origin

On October 25th, 2016, an anonymous 4chan user posted an image of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones walking out an underground tunnel to /pol/ board.^[1] In the thread, multiple users posted edits of the photograph (original photograph and notable edits shown below).^[2][3]

On Ocrober 29th, 2016, in another /pol/ thread, an anonymous 4chan user posted an edit in which multiple copies of Jones walking were edited into the background (shown below).^[4]

Spread

In the following years, the edited version image received spread as a reaction and exploitable, spreading from 4chan to other websites. For example, on May 2nd, 2017, an unknown Redditor used the photograph for a /r/fakehistoryporn post which gained over 3,900 upvotes in two years (shown below, left).^[5] On July 14th, Twitter user @nervousamerican posted a Walking Groyper edit of the image which received over 160 retweets and 1,100 likes in three months (shown below, right).^[6]

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