Don't Look at Her

About

Don't Look At Her, also known as Tits are Temporary, refers to images of nude or scantily-clad women edited to have another, usually unrelated, character censoring the image and advising the viewer to instead pay attention to them and heed their life advice, sometimes with the phrase "tits are temporary."

Origin

On July 28th, 2016, an anonymous 4chan user posted the image of a wizard from 1992 video game Adventures of Maddog Williams in the Dungeons of Duridian obscuring breasts and genital area of an unknown naked woman to /pol/ board (image shown below).^[1] In the following years, the image has been reposted by 4chan users multiple times.^[2][3]

Spread

On March 12th, 2017, an anonymous 4chan user posted the first known edit of the image in which the face of Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson had been superimposed over the wizard to /pol/ board (shown below, left).^[4] On February 21st, 2018, Facebook used David Sashalmi posted an image of a space marine from Warhammer 40,000 series obscured a rule 34 fanart of Fairy Tail character Lucy Heartfilia to 40k Inquisitionposting group (shown below, right).^[5] The post gained over 360 likes in five months. On February 24th and 25th, the meme was reposted to /r/gaming^[6] and /r/animemes^[7] subreddits, gaining over 6,500 upvotes and 650 upvotes in six months, respectively.

The template gained popularity in /r/animemes subreddit several months later. On April 16th, 2018, user Oreshake^[8] uploaded a variant of the meme showing characters from Darling in the Franxx, gaining over 2,800 upvotes in six months (shown below, left). On the following day, an edit using a character from Morrowind was posted to Facebook page The Dankmagister of House Telvanni, gaining over 350 likes and reactions (shown below, right).

One of the more popular versions features a photo of amateur adult model Ultraviolet Darling. The earliest known example of these images features a version in which Superman is censoring her (shown below, left), which was shared on 9gag on July 11th, 2018, and received over 12,500 points in the next five days.^[9] During this time, more versions based on the photograph were shared on Facebook^[10] (shown below, middle) and Reddit^[11] (shown below, right).

As the format grew popular, it began seeing inverted edits featuring attractive women superimposed over other figures. For example, a post by Oreshake on /r/animemes showing Communism leader Karl Marx obscured by Azur Lane's ship Prinz Eugen gathered 5,600 points in a month (shown below, left).^[12] Another version featuring Karl Marx, this time covered with Furry art, appeared on Funnyjunk on July 8th, 2018 (shown below, right).^[13]

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