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Greg Explaining To Rowley refers to a panel from the children's book Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days in which the protagonist Greg Heffley can be seen gesturing and recounting the plot of a horror movie to his friend Rowley while they both look worried. The panel is typically used as an exploitable image macro meme alongside a caption recounting a harrowing piece of media or history.

Origin

The panel showing Greg sitting on a box explaining something to Rowley who's kneeling in front of him comes from the book Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days in a scene where Greg recounts the plot of a horror movie to his friend (seen below).

The earliest known use of the panel in a meme is a June 6th, 2021, post to Reddit's^[1] /r/TitanFolk with the caption, "… and it turns out that Reiner and Betholdt were the Armored and Colossal Titan all along." The post by /u/BillaVanilla gathered over 7,000 upvotes in three years (seen below).

Spread

On July 30th, 2021, a Redditor^[2] posted an edited version of the meme in which Greg is made to say, "And if you think Princess Mononoke is ultra violent, wait till you get a load of this!" The post gathered over 1,000 upvotes in three years (seen below, top). On October 31st, 2023, X^[3] user @thetoonhero4 posted the panel with the caption, "Toby Fox telling the dev team ab weird route," gathering over 17,000 likes in five months (seen below, bottom).

On November 19th, 2023, iFunny^[4] user FNAFUnfunnies posted a version of the meme with the caption, "MatPat explaining FNAF lore to a random homeless person outside his house," gathering over 3,000 smiles in three months (seen below, top). On January 26th, 2024, the Instagram^[5] page @femboy.lifting posted a version of the meme showing Greg and Rowley with harrowed smiles as Greg says, "he was a GUY but he looked like a GIRL." The post gathered over 2,000 likes in two months (seen below, bottom).

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