Mr. Orange

About

Mr. Orange, also known as Orang Min and Orange Lad, is a digital illustration of an anthropomorphic orange, which is often used as a reaction image in ironic meme communities online.

Origin

On July 5th, 2006, user jit_gohil posted a thread to the forum "ZBrush Central", a forum for the digital sculpting tool. The thread was titled "Beware the Orangeman", and was a user showing off Mr. Orange or Orangeman, gaining 17 replies. ^[1]

Spread

On May 27th, 2015, the image was submitted in a post titled "[Esoteric Meme] [Funny] Silly Orange Man xD" to the /r/4ChanMeta^[6] subreddit. On July 4th, YouTuber Cyranek uploaded a Brodyquest parody video titled "Memequest," in which the orange character walks through various internet meme scenes (shown below). Within two years, the video received upwards of 400,000 views and 1,400 comments.

On December 12th, Redditor BasicallyADoctor posted the image with the “If You See This Image“-style caption "Greetings my compatriots you are being visited our god friend mr orage / leave a like or you will fail the inspection" to /r/dankmemes,^[9] where it received upwards of 1,600 votes (99% upvoted) prior to being archived (shown below). On December 22nd, the @dank__memes^[3] Instagram feed posted the same captioned image. On January 5th, 2016, Redditor Ozone_Teumpus resubmitted the image in a post titled "Bernie Sanders announces Guy Fieri as VP" on /r/circlejerk.^[8] On July 5th, the @dank__memes^[2] Instagram page reposted the image.

That month, posts referring to the illustration as "Orang Min" began appearing on the internet humor site iFunny.^[5] On September 7th, Redditor Snoot_Boot submitted a post asking about the character to /r/OutOfTheLoop,^[7] where Redditor DimensioX mentioned the /r/ooerintensifies post.

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