About

ET Cinnamon Roll is a photoshop meme based on a photograph of a cinnamon roll that resembles the face of the titular character from the 1982 American science fiction fantasy film Extraterrestrial (E.T.). Upon surfacing on Reddit in mid-November 2016, the image quickly went viral and spawned dozens of photoshopped parodies.

Origin

The original image of the cinnamon roll was submitted by Redditor cheflp1221 in a /r/mildlyinteresting^[1] post titled "This cinnamon roll looks like an anguished ET" (shown below). Within the first 48 hours, the post^[2] garnered more than 6,500 points, as well as over a dozen of photoshopped parodies in the comments section.

Spread

Shortly after the image of the cinnamon roll began circulating online^[3], Redditor KevinisMackin started a /r/photoshopbattles^[4] thread with the image of the cinnamon roll, which soon led to nearly three dozens of photoshopped parodies in the comments section. Later that afternoon, Twitter user ‏@scheffyy^[5] tweeted the photo with the caption "why my cinnamon role look like ET bus a nut," accruing over 123,500 retweets and 320,100 likes.

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