About

Missing 2013 is an exploitable 4-panel template in which a person is using a computer in a certain year, remembers himself using a computer in a previous year, and tears up. In most iterations, the year remembered is 2013. The template grew into an exploitable as it began being associated with the poster's attitudes towards certain media they no longer enjoy as much as they did in the past.

Origin

The earliest known post of the exploitable was posted to 4chan by an anonymous user on April 8th, 2017.^[1] In the example, the character is on the computer in 2026 remembering 2016 (shown below, left). The final panel is taken from different comic in which a man expresses his superiority for being single but tears up in the final panel (shown below, right).

Spread

On July 24th, 2017, Redditor IWantOffMrrBonesWildR posted an example of the comic to /r/meirl^[2] with the character on the computer in 2017 remembering 2013, gaining over 13,000 points (shown below, left). An updated version of the comic for 2018 was posted to /r/2meirl4meirl^[3] on July 8th, 2018 by user qperx, gaining over 600 points (shown below, right).

On August 7th, 2019, a 2019 version of the template was posted to /r/meirl, gaining over 590 points (shown below, left). In 2019, the comic began seeing use as an exploitable in which people reminisced on times when they liked something they no longer cared for or missed. On January 3rd, 2019, Twitter user @ANG3x6_^[4] posted the comic in reference to Treyarch Studios (shown below, right).

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