About

Holy Music Stops is a variation of the Jazz Music Stops reaction image which features a man dressed up in Crusades armor in front of a soda machine.

Origin

The original image was posted on October 13th, 2019, by user mochamadness09^[6] on /r/memes. The picture is of the user cosplaying as a crusader in a restaurant (shown below).

Spread

On October 24th, 2019, Redditor People98765 posted the reaction image in /r/dankmemes,^[1] pairing it with a Google search of the question "is Bob Ross a good painter?" The post gained over 21,000 points (shown below).

Over the following two months, the template spread across Reddit. Some popular examples posted include a post by mochomadness09^[2] from December 29th, 2019 that gained over 13,000 points in /r/dankmemes (shown below, left) and a post by Shivam2308 from December 16th, 2019^[3] that gained over 28,000 points in /r/memes (shown below, right).

Other popular examples include a January 7th, 2020 post by Eqlipser that gained over 32,000 points in /r/memes^[4] (shown below, left). User JaysonTheMeowMeow posted an example to /r/HeathersTheMusical^[5] that gained over 250 points (shown below, right).

Various Examples

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