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Everyone I Don't Like Is Hitler is a photoshopped children's book cover featuring a picture of Adolf Hitler sliding down a rainbow, which is often used as a reaction image in online political discussions when Godwin's Law is invoked.

Origin

On November 21st, 2015, Facebook user Joey Miller created the meme and posted it to original-content only Facebook group Useless, Unsuccessful, and/or Unpopular Memes. ^[5] An already existing drawing of Hitler sliding down a rainbow was used in the creation of the meme, made by user Laurann for the site drawception.com ^[10]
On November 22nd, 2015, the conservative blog Bookworm Room^[6] posted a compilation of political internet memes, which included a mock children's book cover with Adolf Hitler sliding down a rainbow titled "Everyone I Don't Like is Hitler: The Emotional Child's Guide to Political Discussion" (shown below). On November 23rd, 2015 blog Cramulus posted the image, crediting the original Facebook post ^[11]

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On November 15th, 2012, DeviantArt u^[12] ser razzicr7 posted an image of Hitler riding a sled on a rainbow. They captioned the post, "Was bored so painted using Photoshop." The post received more than 3,000 views (shown below).

On January 14th, 2016, the Daily Telegraph staff writer Tim Stanley tweeted the mock children's cover along with the caption "required reading for the internet age."^[7] On February 27th, Redditor Knollsit submitted the image to /r/The_Donald.^[8] On June 8th, Redditor Quaestorian_Guard submitted a photoshopped version of the cover with Hitler riding a sled through the sky to the /r/funny^[3] subreddit, where it gained over 7,400 votes (89% upvoted) and 150 comments prior to being archived.

2016 United States Presidential Election

On June 21st, 2016, a photoshopped book cover featuring an illustration of Donald Trump titled "Everyone I Don't Like is a Cuck" was uploaded to Imgur^[1] (shown below, left). On October 6th, Redditor Dagon1213 uploaded a similar edit with Pepe the Frog titled "Everyone I Don't Like is Alt-Right" to /r/The_Donald (shown below, right).^[2]

On October 28th, the Occupy Democrats Logic Facebook^[9] page posted an MS Paint illustration of a Hillary Clinton children's book cover titled "Everyone I Don't Like Is a Russian Hacker" (shown below, left). On November 4th, Redditor viralijzad submitted another version of the children's book image (shown below, right). Within one month, the post gained over 750 votes (77% upvoted) on /r/russia.^[7]

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