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All the Things

All the Things Meme

Status:
Confirmed
Year:
2010
Origin
Hyperbole and a Half Comic

All the Things

Meme
Status:
confirmed
Origin: Hyperbole and a Half Comic
Year: 2010
Type: Exploitable

Added Jun 27, 2011 at 04:51PM EDT by Don.

Updated Jun 16, 2021 at 01:36PM EDT by Keira.

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About

"All the Things", sometimes known as "X all the Y", is a snowclone and exploitable cartoon used to make a hyperbolic statement about performing an action. The person in the original comic panel is often manipulated to appear as a different character. (See also: fsjal)

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Origin

The blog Hyperbole and a Half[1] published a comic titled "This is Why I'll Never be an Adult" by artist Allie Brosh on June 17th, 2010. The comic describes the author's frustration with her inability to maintain a consistent enthusiasm for her daily responsibilities. The following two panels were part of the comic:


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Derivatives often use one of these two images.

Spread

A Canvas[2] thread that featured remixed images "clean all the things?" panel was created on April 28th, 2011. It was posted to the Canvas blog[3] on May 2nd, 2011.


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A Reddit thread posted on June 23rd titled "Every afternoon on NPR"[4] had a derivative that parodied the radio show "All Things Considered", and reached the front page, receiving 6,299 up votes. On June 25th a derivative was posted titled "How I feel whenever I play a Lego anything videogame"[5] to Reddit's rage comic f7u12 subreddit, and received 95 up votes. On June 27th, a derivative was posted title "Whenever I build a campfire"[6] that received 451 up votes.

The /r/allthethings subreddit was created on July 13th, 2011, and has 97 subscribers as of August 18th, 2011.

Like most of the other ragefaces, the "CLEAN ALL THE THINGS!" comic touches a direct nerve in me and in many redditors. This community is devoted to memetic variations on that wonderful image.

Notable Derivatives


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Templates

ALL THE Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened Bacon yellow cartoon text leaf clip art lineALL THE yellow text cartoon leaf clip art line font
all +he facial expression text nose cartoon vertebrate emotion font clip art beak human behavior line smileail +he hinjs? Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened text facial expression nose cartoon vertebrate emotion font human behavior clip art smile organism line

Search queries for the original phrase "clean all the things" picked up in June of 2010, and appear to be reaching their highest peak yet in June of 2011.

External References

[1] Hyperbole and a Half – Why I'll Never be an Adult / 6/16/2010

[2] Canvas – clean all the things? / 4/28/2011

[3] Canvas – Things We Like: Hyperbole and a Half / 5/2/2011

[4] Reddit – Every afternoon on NPR / 6/23/2011

[5] Reddit – How I feel whenever I play a Lego anything video game….. / 6/25/2011

[6] Reddit – Whenever I build a campfire / 6/27/2011

[7] Reddit – all the things!!

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