About

Draw Something That Doesn't Exist refers to a three-panel exploitable taken from a scene of Detroit: Become Human in which a character asks an android to "draw something that doesn't exist." In the exploitables, the second panel shows a piece of text that the poster included to humorously describe something that doesn't exist. The final panel shows the first character saying "Oh my god." The jokes are similar to the Discovering Something That Doesn't Exist exploitable from Phineas and Ferb.

Origin

In Detroit: Become Human, the character Markus, an android, interacts with a human character named Carl, who encourages him to attempt painting. He encourages Markus to try and be abstract, saying "draw something that doesn't exist, something you've never seen." Markus then paints something depending on the player's input, to which Carl replies "Oh my god" (compilation of different outcomes shown below).

On May 25th, 2018, an anonymous 9GAG ^[2] user posted a video remix of the meme, replacing the painting with a crude drawing of a cat. Within one year, the post received more than 100 points (screenshot below).

Spread

Exploitable variations began appearing first on Tumblr on June 1st, 2018. One of the first users to popularize the exploitable was basedheisenberg, who published several examples of the meme on June 1st, 2018^[1] (examples shown below).

On June 2nd, Tumblr user carnival-phantasm provided a template version of the exploitable (shown below, left). A differently-cropped version of the exploitable began seeing use on Reddit on June 5th. On that day, a version posted to /r/gaming gained over 11,000 points (shown below, right).

After the format appeared on Reddit, it began trending on /r/dankmemes. A June 5th post about communism gained over 240 points (shown below, left). Another about Minion memes gained over 50 (shown below, right).

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