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I Can Imagine Anything
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I Can Imagine Anything is a reaction image depicting a photograph of a man in red glasses pressing his index finger to his temple with a red light glowing on his face. Originally posted in the /r/notinteresting subreddit, the image gained virality online as an illustration for redraws and memes about supernatural psychic abilities.
Origin
On August 11th, 2022, Redditor Sarcastic-Prick posted a photograph of a man in red glasses, presumably themselves, holding a finger to their temple, titling the post, "I can imagine anything." The post garnered over 38,800 upvotes in the /r/notinteresting[1] subreddit in six months (post and image shown below, left and right).
![I Can Imagine Anything /r/notinteresting Post r/notinteresting u/Sarcastic-Prick · 2h • i.redd.it 5 1 2 1 1 I can imagine anything. [](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/525/294/a73.jpg)
![I Can Imagine Anything [3](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/525/293/ac0.jpg)
Spread
On August 12th, 2022, Tumblr[2] user campyvillain posted a screenshot of the post, which accumulated over 9,000 reblogs and 15,000 likes in six months.
On September 8th, 2022, Twitter[3] user @itthetrashman posted the earliest found meme based on the image, captioning it with a joke about Queen Elizabeth II's death (shown below). The post received over 5,400 retweets and 41,200 likes in five months.
![queen elizabeth using her otherworldly hell powers from beyond the grave to prevent all twitter links on discord from embeddi trashma @itthetrashman queen elizabeth using her otherworldly hell powers from beyond the grave to prevent all twitter links on discord from embedding 2:44 PM . Sep 8, 2022 ...](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/525/295/c4e.jpg)
On September 9th, 2022, Twitter[4] user @SaintKeaReal captioned the image, "*blows up penis with mind*". The post (shown below) received over 1,500 retweets and 12,500 likes in five months, while a screenshot of it was widely circulated online.
![*blows up penis with mind* Kea @SaintKeaReal *blows up penis with mind* 11:36 AM . Sep 9, 2022 ...](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/525/297/3e8.jpg)
Through late 2022, the image maintained popularity both as a reaction and as source material for image captions, often being captioned with jokes about psychic abilities. Additionally, redraws[5] of the image have also been posted online.
Various Examples
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![i just had an idea GGStatusT @GGStatusT i just had an idea 2:41 PM Oct 5, 2022 ...](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/525/299/afc.jpg)
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![I Can Imagine Anything [3](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/525/293/ac0.jpg)
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External References
[1] Reddit – I can imagine anything.
[2] Tumblr – campyvillain
[3] Twitter – @itthetrashman
[4] Twitter – @SaintKeaReal
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