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Guy Pointing To Himself In The Mirror is a WikiHow image macro of a man looking stern while pointing to himself in the mirror. The image originated from a WikiHow article titled "How To Resist Sexual Temptation," although the image has since been removed and the article has been renamed to "How To Control Sexual Urges." The image macro is used as a meme that signifies reassuring or hyping oneself up.

Origin

On September 27, 2010, WikiHow published an article titled "How To Resist Sexual Temptation," under the categories "Christianity" and "Love and Romance."^[1] The article offered various methods to help curtail illicit sexual urges, including "Avoid dark corners with anyone you are attracted to," and "Don't console yourself that just one try won't cost you anything." The article was later updated, redirecting to "How To Control Sexual Urges" instead.^[8]

On December 5th, 2015, an image from the WikiHow article was edited with red text overlays and posted to Tumblr by an unknown account (seen below).^[4]

On December 8th, 2015, Twitter^[2] user @flowerveil posted an unedited image sourced from the aforementioned article, alongside a caption that read, "staring at urself in the bathroom mirror at a party when ur trying to get ur drunk ass to chill." The image featured a man staring and pointing at himself in the mirror, and was drawn in the classic WikiHow style, with a watermark for the website in the bottom right corner. The tweet gathered over 4,000 likes in nearly seven years (seen below).

The replies to the aforementioned tweet detailed the source^[3] of the image, as well as various other images from the WikiHow article, including one posted by @wrendorphin (seen below).

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On January 1st 2016, Twitter^[5] user @FillWerrell posted a tweet using the image as well, alongside a caption that read, "Stop fucking spending money like this. We talked about this." The post gathered over 3,000 likes in over six years (seen below).

On January 2nd, Twitter user @iSitOnBeards posted the image alongside a caption that read, "You better not fall in love with her.. You give her 10 strokes and you get outta there." The account has since been deleted and the post received an unknown number of likes.^[7] On February 6th, 2016, Twitter^[6] user @ChizNuke posted a tweet using the image, alongside a caption that read, "Get back in there and earn that Red Lobster." The post gathered over 1,000 likes in over six years (seen below).

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