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Look At Him And Laugh
About
"Look At Him And Laugh" is a mocking expression often used online to caption reaction images of characters pointing and laughing, or photographs featuring cringeworthy subjects.
Origin
The earliest known image macro featuring the expression was a 60s Spider-Man image depicting the superhero pointing next to two police officers laughing with the caption "Look at him / Look at him and laugh" (shown below). While the image is rumored to have originated on 4chan, the earliest archived version was posted on the Reaction Images Tumblr page[1] on April 6th, 2011.
Spread
On September 29th, 2011, a Facebook[7] page titled "Look at him, look at him and laugh" was launched. On July 26th, 2012, the image was posted in a thread on 4chan's /a/ (anime) board.[2] On June 13th, 2013, Imgur[8] user phatso posted an animated GIF featuring a man transforming into a Charizard Pokemon titled "Look at him, look at him and laugh" (shown below).
On August 16th, 2014, FunnyJunk user Labao uploaded a GIF of a man failing to jump over a chain titled "Look at Him, Look at Him and Laugh" (shown below, left). On August 19th, Redditor allkill submitted a photo of an elderly man looking disapprovingly at a man holding an anime body pillow with the title "Look! Look at him and laugh" to the /r/funny[9] subreddit.
Notable Examples
Search Interest
External References
[1] Tumblr – Fuck Yeah Reactions
[2] Archive.moe – /a/ thread No.69144158 [4chan archive: may contain NSFW content]
[3] Funnyjunk – Facebook Fail
[4] Gamespot – Religious Argument for Marriage
[5] Gizmodo – If Tech Companies Made Holiday Party Invitations, They Would Look Like This
[6] Fark – What secret is Princess Cadance and Shining Armor hiding from Twilight Sparkle? Did Pinkie Pie plan the wedding reception? Will Derpy bring muffins? It's the Royal Wedding season finale of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, 1 pm on The Hub
[7] Facebook – Look at him look at him and laugh
[8] Imgur – Look at him look at him and laugh
[9] Reddit – Look! Look at him and laugh
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RedDragon001
Jan 15, 2015 at 03:18PM EST
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Jan 16, 2015 at 05:42PM EST