About

Eat, Survive, Reproduce refers to an exploitable meme based on a comic by Patrick Hardin. The cartoon shows a series of animals meant to represent different stages of evolution all thinking, "Eat, survive, reproduce." At the end of the evolutionary line stands a man wondering, "What's it all about?" The comic is edited to show the man thinking different thoughts in various iterations of the meme.

Origin

The original Hardin comic about several animals thinking "Eat, survive, reproduce" while a man ponders the meaning of existence was published in Funny Times on February 3rd, 1999 (seen below).^[1]

On July 29th, 2022, a version of the comic was posted to /r/BetterCallSaul,^[2] gathering over 700 upvotes in a year (seen below).

The earliest known edit of the meme is a Brazilian version of the comic first posted to iFunny^[3] on September 4th, 2022, by user fixedFeijoadaSim, with the man shown to be thinking about "Bob Rolão," a sexual innuendo about a large penis.

Spread

On March 24th, 2023, Instagram^[4] page @drew11111111111111111111111111 posted a carousel post containing a version of the meme where the man was shown to be thinking about the smiling purple devil emoji (seen below, left). A March 25th, 2023 post by Instagram^[5] page @pipesbuffet showed the man thinking about texting his ex (seen below, right).

On March 28th, 2023, iFunny^[6] user @kolbert posted a version of the meme where the man was shown to be thinking about making ambient electronic music. The post gathered over 3,000 likes in six months (seen below, left). On March 31st, Instagram^[7] page @prayingforexits posted a version of the meme where the man is thinking about switching his profile from crypto to AI (seen below, right).

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