About

Cropped Image Macros refer to image macros that have been purposefully edited to remove part of the superimposed text and thereby alter the meaning of the image, usually to satirical, surreal, or anti-humorous effect.

Origin

The first popular examples of deliberately altering image macros to take them out of context took the form of Chuck Norris Facts Without Bottom Text. On October 12th, 2017, Twitter user @electrapng tweeted four pictures of Chuck Norris memes with the bottom text cropped out so that only the set-up to old Chuck Norris image macros creating a surreal anti-humor effect. The tweet gained over 27,000 retweets and 71,000 likes. The pictures the user cropped are shown below:

Spread

The Twitter account Cropped Boomer Images (@NoContextBoomer)^[1] has become a popular repository for cropped image macros, usually taken from political images featuring people such as Clint Eastwood. It has amassed over 40,000 followers as of January 2019. Some examples taken from the account are shown below.

A variation on Tumblr^[2] in which news about countries was cropped such that the images appeared to read statements like "Ireland is the first country in the world" gained over 10,000 notes (shown below).

Various Examples

Search Interest

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External References

^[1] Twitter – @NoContextBoomer

^[2] Tumblr – gomutant