About

Kwispy refers to an image macro of a photoshopped frame from The Dark Knight in which the character Harvey Dent's entire face is burned and captioned "Kwispy," an intentional misspelling of the word "crispy." The image began seeing use as a reaction image in the summer of 2019.

Origin

On June 28th, 2014, Imgur user ninjadudeinSC posted a photoshopped image of the character Harvey Dent, aka Two Face, from The Dark Knight in which both sides of his face are burned^[1] (shown below).

On November 6th, 2015, user notsocarrottop^[5] posted the image with the caption "What's my favorite donut? Kwispy Kweme" (shown below).

Spread

The image did not see much further use until the summer of 2019. On August 5th, 2019, Reddit user bob11baseball captioned the image "Kwispy," and paired that image with a caption about McDonald's Sprite, gaining over 5,000 points in /r/dankmemes.^[2]

After appearing on /r/dankmemes, the image spread to various subreddits, including /r/TIHI^[3] (which stands for Thanks I Hate It) and /r/cursed_images. ^[4] A variation by icecreamaddict6 appeared in /r/memes (shown below, left) and one by KaleWasTaken appeared in /r/dankmemes (shown below, right).

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