Elijah Wood On a Scooter
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Elijah Wood On a Scooter refers to a photograph of actor Elijah Wood, best known for playing Frodo in The Lord of the Rings films, seen riding a scooter smoking a cigarette. After the photograph was posted to Twitter, it was parodied by many users.
Origin
On September 24th, 2018, author C. Robert Cargill[1] posted a photograph he took of Elijah Wood riding a scooter, smoking a cigarette, and wearing boots. The photo gained over 620 retweets and 3,600 likes (shown below).
Spread
After the tweet was posted, popular jokes parodied Wood's role as Frodo. For example, user @SamShotFirst gained over 24,000 retweets and 85,000 likes with his post joking about the image using a Lord of the Rings reference (shown below, left). User @NickdeSemlyen posted a One Does Not Simply Walk Into Mordor joke, gaining over 790 retweets and 2,700 likes (shown below, right).
On Reddit, a Photoshop Battle was posted to /r/photoshopbattles, gaining over 40,000 upvotes. Some of the most popular submissions featured only the scooter, a reference to Frodo being invisible when wearing the Ring of Power, which gained over 1,200 points (shown below, left). Another user posted a photoshop of Wood in a motorcycle race, gaining over 1,700 points (shown below, right). The meme was covered by The Daily Dot[2] and Mashable.[3]
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External References
[1] Twitter – @Massawyrm
[2] Daily Dot – Elijah Wood on a scooter is just what the internet needed
[3] Mashable – Elijah Wood riding a scooter was always going to become a meme
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