About

Dan Dancer Can Cancer is an exploitable four-panel image macro series using word association to identify a subject as cancerous in the final panel.

Origin

On September 23rd, 2017, the Being Libertarian Facebook^[1] page posted a four-panel image macro featuring football quarterback Dan Marino, a ballet dancer, an aluminum can and the hammer and sickle communist symbol (shown below). Within 48 hours, the post gathered upwards of 1,700 reactions.

Spread

The following day, Redditor RezorTEclipez reposted the image to /r/MemeEconomy,^[2] where it gathered upwards of 15,500 points (68% upvoted) and 630 comments in 24 hours. Also on September 24th, Redditor DiaperDaddy69 posted a variation of the image using a photograph of Jake Paul (shown below, left).^[4] That evening, Redditor Stormodin posted an edited variation of the image macro featuring a Droste effect in the final panel titled "Let's not do this, fellas. We're still recovering from elf on the shelf" (shown below). Within 17 hours, the post accumulated more than 1,400 points (96% upvoted) on /r/dankmemes.^[3]

Various Examples

Search Interest

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