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Hand Stopping Dominoes
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About
Hand Stopping Dominoes is an object-labeled image macro stock photo of a person stopping a line of dominos from falling with their hand. Though the stock photos began in 2018 on Reddit, the object-labeling memes became more popular in February 2020. Typically the hand, the dominos before the hand and the dominos after the hand are labeled separate things and signify the possible outcomes before something is stopped.
Origin
On December 11th, 2018, Redditor Garfield_123 posted the earliest known hand stopping dominos object label image to r/dankmemes[2] (shown below). The image regarding YouTube Rewind garnered over 70 points (91% upvoted) in a year.
Spread
On December 18th, 2018, Redditor Westo6Besto9 posted a variation to r/memes[3] and gained over 10,900 points (95% upvoted) in a year (shown below, left). In February 2020, the meme gained popularity again. On February 24th, 2020, Redditor thesmarmellus posted a coronavirus meme to r/memes[4] using the template (shown below, right). The image received over 21,500 points (98% upvoted) in a day. StayHipp[1] published a list of Stopping Dominos memes.
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External References
[1] StayHipp – Stopping Dominoes Memes
[2] Reddit – r/dankmemes
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