Conspiracy Keanu
Added 12 years ago by Heather • Updated 3 months ago by Y F
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Type: Image Macro
Tags: conspiracy 420 keanu reeves stoner humor
Additional References: Meme Generator
About
Conspiracy Keanu is an advice animal image macro series featuring a still photo of the Hollywood actor Keanu Reeves wearing a frightened expression from the 1989 comedy film Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure. The images are typically captioned with paranoid conjectures and absurdly philosophical questions that bear similarities to the Paranoid Parrot, Philosoraptor and Stoner Dog advice animal series.
Origin
On December 11th, 2008, New York Magazine's Vulture Blog[3] published a slideshow titled “Vulture’s Complete Field Guide to the Facial Expressions of Keanu Reeves” that consisted of screen captures of Reeves from various films. The 22nd slide featured an image of Ted (played by Keanu Reeves) taken from the 1989 comedy film Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure in a scene where Ted is being chased by medieval knights.
The image was subsequently used as a reaction face with the earliest known instance occurring on the Fark[1] forums (shown left) on September 17th, 2010. The first image macro (shown right) was posted to the r/funny subreddit[2] with the caption “What if we CAN breathe in space / and they just don’t want us to escape” on June 2nd, 2011, which accumulated 6,847 up votes prior to being archived.
Spread
An instance with the caption "What if all the specs we see in the light / are all miniature universes?" was submitted to the humor site FunnyJunk[11] on September 24th, 2011.
Beginning in November 2011, Conspiracy Keanu image macros spread on a larger scale with the launch of a Facebook fan page[10] on November 19th and compilations were posted to various sites including BuzzFeed[13], Pleated Jeans[14] and the web culture blog UpRoxx[5] within the next few days. On December 15th, the web culture blog Smosh[16] published a "Best of Conspiracy Keanu" post. The domain for the single topic blog ConspiracyKeanu.com[12] was registered on December 18th. Additionally, derivatives have been posted to FunnyJunk[6], Tumblr[7], Troll.me[9] and Reddit.[8] As of April 2012, the Quickmeme[4] page has 37,458 submissions and the Facebook[15] page has 1,421 likes.
Notable Examples
Derivatives
On Quickmeme, searching for 'conspiracy' results in numerous spin-offs.[17] These vary between humans and animals, to fictional characters, with the text on the image macro matching to the image. Even though most of these only generated a few images and didn't gain much popularity, more successful versions are Conspiracy Cat[18] and various instances of Conspiracry Lyra[19] [20].
Template
Search Interest
External References
[1] Fark – China plans to lead world in eco-friendly cars. Haven't they lead enough?
[2] Reddit – Conspiracy Keanu
[3] NYMag – Vulture’s Complete Field Guide to the Facial Expressions of Keanu Reeves
[4] Quickmeme – Conspiracy Keanu
[5] UpRoxx – Conspiracy Keanu Puts A Meme To What Keanu Reeves Is Thinking
[6] FunnyJunk (must login to run the search) – conspiracy keanu
[7] Tumblr – #conspiracy keanu
[8] Reddit – conspiracy keanu
[9] Troll.me via Way Back Machine – conspiracy keanu
[10] Facebook – Conspiracy Keanu
[12] ConspiracyKeanu.com – Conspiracy Keanu
[13] BuzzFeed – The 21 Best Conspiracy Keanu Meme Images
[14] Pleated Jeans – Best of the Conspiracy Keanu Meme
[15] Facebook – Conspiracy Keanu
[16] Smosh – Best of Conspiracy Keanu!
[17] Quickmeme – Search Results 'Conspiracy'
[18] Quickmeme – Conspiracy Cat
[19] Quickmeme – Conspiracy Lyra 1
[20] Quickmeme – Conspiracy Lyra 2
Entry Editors ( 8 )
Recent Images ( 278 )
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We have been banboozled
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Could be
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I mean...it could be true.
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Seriously, am I the only one to see the connection ?
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Stale Meme But Important
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Chillout young Keanu
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Keanu Karen Conspiracy
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Covfefe Conspiracy Keany
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DAMN!
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Keanu Goodes
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Sweet House Alabama
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Reflections are the real people
Comments ( 45 )
Think of ALL the possibilities!
Is it just me or are all these philosraptor ripoffs…
Yeah, this, uh, needs way more work. Even so, I've only seen a very small number of examples of this around, so I wouldn't really consider this a meme.
→Deadpool.
Funny, but not a meme. Deadpool +1
…. +1 not sure if want :\
I'm not saying the OP's a faggot, but the OP's a faggot.
These are my thoughts.
I am now questioning reality.
I've seen this on FunnyJunk, though not enough personally to verify its memety. Still think it's pretty funny though. +1 work.
It's definitely forced, I normally don't say this, but possible +1 deadpool.
Oh, God, is this from Babes in Toyland?
I'm sorry guys, I'm new to the concept of KnowYourMeme and I didn't at all realise I was doing something wrong. Basically, I saw this a lot around other sites and decided to try and give it a page on KnowYourMeme. I honestly didn't know it was wrong to post the pictures in such a quantity. Thanks for the information, though, appreciated.
+me gusta
+want moar
This clearly has a lot of spread, and being Keanu, it's going to take off FAST.
But this page needs work.
Srsly, "Canadian American actor?"
+1 wait.
Thank you for getting this entry going and putting all the images into the gallery! I've seen this quite a bit on Reddit recently.
We already got Paranoid Parrot
Saw it before here.
Automatically a meme for me, +1 confirm and shields up!
So, we took Paranoid Parrot and combined him with Philosoraptor?
It is pretty funny, if you ask me. I just don't think it needs to be confirmed.
I was going to say that this is just yet another bad Advice Dog spinoff, but some of these are actually funny.
This could use a lot of work though.
Wow, alot of these are what I used to think as a kid.
although its another advice dog spinoff this one has ALOT of potential i see it around ALOT too….guys why not give this one a chance.
I've had serious thoughts about all these before even knowing of this meme. It's some scary s**t.
this one pretty popular in FJ
and the "poisonous air" one is actually right
After somebody mentioning Babes In Toyland, I'm thinking Christmas Keanu might be happening so here's the link to get started – http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/836/keanup.jpg/
In the words of Keanu himself: Whoa.
This seems really forced… Then again, maybe it will catch on. Is a meme not a meme just because it's forced?
I dunno where the hell you deadpool people are, but I've seen plenty of these.
+1 confirm.
+1 confirm
+1 Confirm
I put a search in Tumblr for Keanu and lots of Conspiracy Keanus came out of the search. It is popular on Tumblr. Confirm
Its spread so much lately that it would be stupid to deadpool.
+1 confirm
definitely a spread meme
My mostly internet-oblivious friend knows what this is, without me or (as far as I know) any of my other friends telling him.
He could even recall specific conspiracy macros. So, it has seen a large amount of spread. More than most advice dogs, at the very least. +1 confirm from me
+1 Confirm I liked Keabnu in the movie "Red Planet"
The awkward moment when you realize you think same as Keanu. o_o
i like the Homestuck one.
What if people purposely spiked popularity in this meme in a certain way just to make the graph shaped like Batman?
Oh how i love this meme xD
I absolutely love these. I often find myself thinking these things. This week edition:
"What if the RMTs in online games are just the game publisher's way of getting more money?"
What if aliens do exist, but we don't have the technology needed to confirm their existence?
When you become a meme again but nobody notices
Reeves looks so young…
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