About

Jerry Smith Looking Through Viewfinder and Vomiting is a series of exploitable image macro based on a scene from the American animated television series Rick and Morty. The meme, which rose in popularity in December 2019, features the character Jerry Smith looking through binoculars and vomiting. However, the meme's author inserts an image of something that the author disapproves of in between the two images.

Origin

On December 8th, 2019, the episode "Claw and Order" of Rick and Morty aired in the United States.^[1] In the episode, Rick and Jerry (voiced by Justin Roiland and Chris Parnell) look into the mind of a talking cat to determine why it talks. When they look through the viewfinder of the device that allows them to search the cat's mind, the image they see is so horrific that Jerry vomits.

That day, YouTuber Reality Check posted a clip of the scene to YouTube. Within one week, the post received more than 32,000 views (shown below).

Spread

The following day, Redditor ^[2] a-canadian-redittor published a template of a meme format using the scene. The post features an empty panel between the images of Jerry looking through the viewfinder and Jerry's vomiting. Within one week, the post received more than 2,000 points (98% upvoted) and 75 comments (shown below, left).

Over the next few days, others began posting variations on the meme on Reddit (example below, center).

On December 12th, Redditor^[3] dak_181 posted another template of the meme in the "/r/MemeEconomy subreddit. The post received more than 24,000 points (94% upvoted) and 285 comments in less than 24 hours.

The following day, Redditor^[4] shir0uemiya posted a variation that featured Jerry looking at a Baby Yoda meme. The post received more than 7,300 points in less than 24 hours (shown below, right).

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Templates

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