I'm OK

About

I'm OK refers to a two-panel comic in which a woman appears to write "I'm OK" on a wall, but in the second panel, the viewer's perspective shifts 90 degrees so they can see the full message reads "I'm Not Okay." The comic is meant to symbolize the facade of normalcy people who struggle with depression present to the outside world. The comic has been turned into an exploitable for shitposting. The format is similar to I'm Fine.

Origin

On May 21st, 2015, DeviantART user DestinyBlue posted the original comic^[1] with a description discussing their struggle with depression (shown below).

Spread

The comic began being turned into an exploitable roughly two years later, as people edited the second panel to change the hidden message of the comic. One of the earliest known exploitables was posted August 29th, 2017 by Instagram user luigilover.tm,^[2] who altered the comic to read "I'm last in Mario Kart," gaining over 4,300 likes (shown below, left). On November 23rd, Redditor JuicedJunkie^[3] posted a version reading "I'm Oklahoma" to /r/me_irl, gaining over 5,700 points (shown below, right).

The edits continued through 2018 and 2019. On November 8th 2018, Redditor yonosoyvictor posted a version that read I'm Already Tracer, gaining over 5,900 points (shown below, left). On May 19th, 2018, /r/dankmemes user McMab posted a variation that read "I'm OKn't," gaining over 6,900 points (shown below, right).

Related Memes

I'm Fine

I'm Fine refers to a series of memes based on an image macro of an anime girl captioned "I'm Fine." In memes, the half of the macro in which the girl is smiling is replaced with unrelated imagery, with the captioned altered so it start with "I'm f" and ends in a way describing the new image. The format is similar to I'm Ok.

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