Kid Getting Choked

About

Kid Getting Choked refers to an image of what appears to be a child getting grabbed by their neck by a large hand. The image has been used as a reaction image to describe moments that make one feel aggressive, and it has been used as an object labeling meme in which the hand and child are labeled different things.

Origin

The origin of the picture is unknown. Its earliest known appearance is January 5th, 2015, when Twitter user @Jakeeeeeeeey posted it with the caption "Yo, check out my mixt-". Though the tweet is deleted, it was screenshot and posted to Imgur on January 5th, 2016^[1] (shown below).

Spread

After the Imgur post, it began seeing more use on social media. On February 4th, 2016, Tumblr user slightmood^[2] posted it with the caption "Barber be like 'turn ya head,'" gaining over 145,000 notes (shown below, left). An edit about a recent NBA game appeared in /r/NBA on March 21st, 2017 gained over 300 points (shown below, right).

Popular object labeling edits of the image include an edit tweeted by user @jadentodd12 on May 1st, 2018 in a post that gained over 50 retweets and 70 likes (shown below, left) and an edit posted in /r/vaxxhappened by user boiboi255 that gained over 1,500 points (shown below, right).

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