About

Floating Boy Chasing Running Boy, also known as Floating Guy Chasing Running Guy, refers to a series of images macros and object labeling memes featuring a photograph of a man jumping upward so that his head touches the ceiling of a hallway as another man runs away from him.

Origin

The earliest known usage of the image was posted in the /r/hmm subreddit on April 5th, 2018 by Redditor^[7] MinnesotaGamer20 (shown below). The post received more than 50 points (94% upvoted) in five months.

Spread

On April 8th, 2018 by an anonymous 4chan ^[1] user on the /vg/ message board. The image, which was labeled "Larry_Breaches_Containment," a reference to the SCP Foundation fictional wiki, and captioned "*blocks your path*.

That day, the image was posted by Redditor ^[2] LolExxDee in the /r/DankMemesFromSite19 subreddit in another thread about the SCP Foundation. The thread received more than 260 points (99% upvoted) in six months.

On July 18th, Tumblr ^[3] user lesbianorbits posted an object-labeled variation of the meme in which the jumping boy is labeled "Baby boomers that don't understand inflation" and the running boy is labeled "Millennial Cashiers." The post received more than 113,000 notes in three months (shown below, left).

The following month, on August 14th, Redditor^[4] blueberrybrown posted a version in which the floating boy is labeled "1/10 dentists" and the running boy is labeled "toothpaste brands." The post received more than 1,100 points (95% upvoted) in two months.

A similar version of the meme, in which the floating boy is labeled "Colgate" and the running boy is labeled "1 out of 10 dentists who don't recommend Colgate," was posted in the /r/me_irl subreddit on September 26th, 2018 by Redditor^[5] ky4n1te. The post, originally by @huncho.macho,^[6] received more than 26,000 points (95% upvoted) and 100 comments.

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