About

Get Better Material refers to a series of exploitable images based on a False Knees webcomic. In the meme, a bird is performing stand-up comedy. However, when a heckler boos the bird and says to "get better material," the bird looks at its notes only to realize that it does not have any other material.

Origin

On August 26th, 2016, Josh Barkman, the artist and writer of the webcomic False Knees, published the episode "Stand-up Cawmedian" on Tumblr ^[1] and his website.^[2] In the issue, a crow performs stand-up comedy, saying "caw caw caw." A heckler in the audience then screams "Boo! Get better material!" Visibly nervous, the crow looks at its notes, which read "caw caw caw caw," indicating that that's all the bird has. The post (shown below) received more than 2,000 notes on Tumblr as of October 2017.

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The following year, on September 26th, 2017, Twitter ^[4] user @pissed_eagel posted a four-panel version of the comic, receiving more than 8,000 retweets and 20,000 likes in five days.

Three days later, on September 29th, Redditor ^[3] jcdcwassup posted the comic in a four-panel, square format on the /r/me_irl subreddit. The post (shown below) received more than 30,000 points (91% upvoted) and 340 comments in three days.

That day on the /r/NLSSCircleJerk subreddit, Redditor Wyattkins193 posted a variation in whcih the first two panels of the comic are photoshopped. In this variant, the crow says "60 years old should be euthanized and the heckler says "My dad just turned 60!" Within two days, the post received more than 780 points (96% upvoted).

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