I Wonder If He's Thinking About Me

About

I Wonder If He's Thinking About Me is a series of two-panel image macros featuring a stock photograph of a smiling woman drinking coffee with "I wonder if he's thinking about me" above a photograph of man doing a non sequitur activity for humorous effect (similar to I Bet He's Thinking About Other Women).

Origin

On October 6th, 2018, Redditor ^[1] Lizard1Wizard posted an image by Hero Images^[2] stock photography of a "Smiling woman enjoying coffee" with the phrase "I wonder if he's thinking about me" as a caption above a stock photograph of a man running with the caption "I cant step on the cracks or Im gay." The post received more than 9,100 (97% upvoted) and 80 comments in five days (shown below).

Spread

The following day, the image was shared in the /r/dankmemes ^[3] subreddit, where it received an additional 9,100 points (96% upvoted) in four days.

On October 10th, Redditor^[4] The_Salt_Cat posted the image in the /r/me_irl subreddit. Below the image of the woman is a man looking at a It Is Wednesday meme. The post received more than 3,300 points (98% upvoted) and 10 comments in 24 hours (shown below, left). That day, Redditor^[5] posted the meme in /r/dankmemes, where it received more than 56,000 points (91% upvoted) and 280 comments in 24 hours.

Over the next 24 hours, the format was shared by numerous users on /r/dankmemes (examples below, center and right).

Various Examples

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