Freedom of Speech (Norman Rockwell Painting)
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Freedom Of Speech is a painting by Norman Rockwell that is used as an exploitable image macro in memes to signify announcing a controversial yet humorous opinion under the guise of exercising one's freedom of speech in the United States. The earliest known use of the image as an image macro meme was on Twitter in December 2020.
Origin
Freedom of Speech (seen below, left) is the first in a series of paintings called Four Freedoms (seen below, right), painted by Norman Rockwell and first published on February 20th, 1943.[1]
Early instances of the painting being altered in a manner than can be considered humorous or memetic can be accessed via inactive links from 2008 displayed on TinEye (seen below, left),[2] and a July 2017 Facebook campaign by a Berkshire artist named Mark Tomasi (seen below, right).[3]
Spread
The earliest known viral instance of the image being used to signify announcing a humorous controversial opinion was posted to Twitter on December 10th, 2020, by Twitter[4] user @nintendoesnt, gathering over 10,000 likes in two years (seen below, left). On December 18th, 2022, Twitter[5] user @ManletThorin posted the image and gathered over 2,000 likes in two weeks (seen below, right).
On December 3rd, 2022, an anonymous user posted the image to the 4chan's /pol/ (seen below).[6]
![View Same Google iqdb SauceNAO Trace +1670040542508792.jpg, 982KiB, 1568x1841 /pol/ Anonymous ID: ZmZGL6rC Sat 03 Dec 2022 06:49:55 No.406909041 View Report >>406907063 lol, based. Anon, this is a great start. I think what might go down even better would be to frame the message as if it's written by and for liberals. Something like: FIGHT HATE Did you know? In contrast to rapper Kanye West's recent comments, only 46% of senior executive positions in the media industry are held by Jewish people At some companies like [images] that number is a bit higher, but still, a whopping 20% of the executive positions are held by non-Jews That way normies will read it thinking they're not looking at wrongthink, maybe some turbo NPCs will even re-tweet it as if it's evidence that Jews don't control the media](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/508/273/d61.png "Freedom of Speech Meme")
On December 14th, 2022, Twitter[7] user @kevin_bowen posted a version of the meme, gathering over 40 likes in a month (seen below, left). On December 16th, 2022, Twitter[8] user @daphnaiad posted a version of the meme, gathering over 100 likes in nearly a month (seen below, right).
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External References
[1] Wikipedia – Freedom Of Speech
[2] TinEye – Reverse Image Search
[3] Facebook – Mark Tomasi
[4] Twitter – nintendoesnt
[5] Twitter – ManletThorin
[7] Twitter – kevin_bowen
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