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How Do I Rotate Text in MS Paint?
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About
How Do I Rotate Text In MS Paint? is a joke phrase which is used in image macros asking the viewer how to rotate text on the Microsoft Paint application. The line is typically used in pre-established exploitable meme templates where the usual punchline is a piece of text set at an angle. "How Do I Rotate Text In MS Paint" memes signify the creator was attempting to make such a meme but could not figure out how to set the text at an angle in MS Paint.
Origin
The phrase began seeing use in April of 2016. Likely the first post to use the phrase was posted in /r/me_irl[1] on April 27th, 2016 in an OK Bye Mom variation. In that template, the punchline is a google image search set an angle. TheSpiderBob's post instead used the phrase reading horizontally. The post gained over 12,000 upvotes (shown below).
![OK Bye Mom Alright tommy im leaving the house to run some erands see you in a bit OK BYE MOM how to rotate text in paint](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/342/541/6d1.jpg)
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The following day, Tumblr user koobaxion[2] uploaded an image parodying the Where In the World Is Carmen San Diego? cover to make it read "How in the world do I rotate text in MS Paint?" (shown below). The image gained over 169,000 notes, thanks in part to a reblog by user alphaplayfree[3] with instructions on how to rotate text in MS Paint.
![Carmen Sandiego N THE text in MSPa Do r rotate TM](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/342/546/e5e.jpg)
In the following years, the joke continued to appear in various exploitable templates. For example, a post by Tumblr user iavenjqasdf[4] applied the phrase to Oh Joy Sex Toy's "Cuck" Comic and gained over 5,000 notes (shown below, left). On September 20th, 2017, Redditor COOLFRY[5] posted an All the Pages Are Blank edit to /r/dankmemes and gained over 6,600 upvotes (shown below, right).
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![All the PAges Are Blank How To Rotate Text In Paint all the pages are blank wif](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/342/548/2dc.jpg)
Various Examples
![Passing Notes How do I rotate text on MS Paint](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/342/550/a46.png)
![Kissing Instead of Missing iMessage Today 3:44 AM I wish I was kissing you instead of missing you :44 AM Read 3:44 AM How do rotate text in ms paint.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/342/551/12c.jpg)
![Trump Announcement How do I rotate text in MS paint RushSyndrome](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/342/553/084.png)
![Michael Phelps How do I rotate text in ms paint](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/342/554/23b.jpg)
![Oscar Gaffe ARS how do i rotate text in ms paint Lucy Nicholson/Reuters](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/342/556/153.png)
![Science Project PURPOSE Rotating Text in MS Paint DATA](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/342/557/b0c.png)
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