I Saw 14,000,605 Futures

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I Saw 14,000,605 Futures refers to a scene from Avengers: Infinity War which was turned into a three-panel exploitable image template. In the scene, Dr. Strange says to Tony Stark he has looked into 14,000,605 futures. In the exploitables, Stark asks "in how many futures is X?" to which Strange replies "X of them."

Origin

Avengers: Infinity War was released April 27th, 2018. In a scene from the film, Dr. Strange says "I looked forward in time. I saw 14,000,605 futures." Tony Stark asks in how many of those futures do the Avengers defeat Thanos, and Strange says "One."

Spread

Exploitable edits of the scene began appearing in mid-May of 2018. On May 15th, a post in an Imgur compilation of Avengers: Infinity War memes^[1] featured one of the first exploitables (shown below, left). The same day, Twitter user @ryansatin^[2] made an edit contributing to the Yanny or Laurel debate, gaining over 100 retweets (shown below, right).

The format saw many examples in /r/dankmemes. Some of the most popular include a post by Melvis12 on May 21st that gained over 2,000 points (shown below, left). Another popular post with the format appeared on Imgur that gained over 2,500 points and over 151,000 views (shown below, right).

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