About

It's Time For You To Look Inward, also known as Uncle Iroh's Big Questions, is an exploitable image macro sourced from an episode of the animated TV show Avatar: The Last Airbender. The two-panel comic shows a character named Uncle Iroh speaking to Prince Zuko, saying, "It's time for you to look inward and begin asking yourself the real questions," followed by a panel in which he delivers the punchline to the meme. The template was popularized on Reddit in 2018 and continued to grow in prevalence over the following years.

Origin

The earliest known meme to use the template in which Uncle Iroh urges Prince Zuko to introspect was posted on October 25th, 2018, to /r/memes by Redditor^[1] /u/kingbilly317. The post gathered over 4,000 upvotes in nearly five years (seen below).

Spread

On November 14th, 2018, Twitter^[2] user @_ericcurtin posted the meme as part of a series on Minion Or Da Bob, gathering over 5,000 likes in four years (seen below, right). On August 15th, 2019, Redditor^[3] /u/Asper2002 posted the meme to /r/Animemes, gathering over 11,000 upvotes in three years (seen below, right).

On August 18th, 2019, Redditor^[4] /u/urmum_lmao posted an Uncle Iroh meme to /r/prequelmemes, gathering over 6,000 upvotes in three years (seen below, left). On August 24th, 2019, Redditor^[5] /u/random_kamote posted an Uncle Iroh meme to /r/dankmemes, gathering over 24,000 upvotes in three years (seen below, right).

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