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Do You Take Constructive Criticism? refers to a phrasal meme used primarily on Tumblr in which a user responds to another's post with a variation on the phrase "do you take constructive criticism on your posts?", implying that the original post is horrible. The trend started from an image taken from Facebook, which has inspired exploitable edits.

Origin

On May 28th, 2015, Tumblr user marble-soda^[1] posted a screenshot from Facebook Furry group Furaffinity in which a user posted a drawing of their fursona, a fox. In the comments, a user offers to give constructive criticism, to which the original poster says yes, and the commenter says "it fucking sucks." The original poster says "that's not constructive criticism." It seems the original post from the Facebook group has been deleted. Marble-soda's post gained over 234,000 notes (shown below).

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Exploitables

The image inspired some exploitable parodies. For example, an exploited version combining Patrick Star and the Facebook "Angry React" emoji was posted to /r/dankmemes^[2] on January 7th, 2017, though it only gained 23 points (shown below, left). Another post by Instagram user supershitbros^[3] imagined the conversation happening between musicians David Bowie and Morrissey, gaining 247 likes (shown below, right).

Tumblr Phrasal Meme

On Tumblr, variants on the phrase "do you take constructive criticism" have appeared as a way for a commenter to imply that the post they're commenting on is bad. This appears to be a reference to the Furaffinity screenshot post. There are several popular posts on Tumblr with "Do you take constructive criticism?" in the replies. For example, discourse-senpai replied to a post by Noahisahuman photoshopping a character from Disney's Moana with The Almighty Loaf with the phrase. The entire post^[4] has gained over 103,000 notes (shown below, left). Another post by moosers^[5] discussing vore received the "constructive criticism" reply, to which moosers replied "no." The post gained over 40,000 notes (shown below, right).

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