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Norman Reedus Holding Things is a photoshop meme based on a still image of actor Norman Reedus cradling an infant in the trailer for the upcoming Hideo Kojima video game Death Stranding.

Origin

On June 13th, 2016, Kojima Productions released the first trailer for Death Stranding, in which Reedus wakes up naked on a beach next to an infant, whom he tries to cradle in his arms before it turns invisible and crawls away from him

That evening, Twitter user @etescetera^[5] tweeted a photoshopped picture of Reedus cradling Hideo Kojima's head, which accumulated more than 5,400 likes and 5,200 retweets over the next week (shown below).

Spread

The following day, Twitter user @markyanna^[6] tweeted a photoshop of Reedus holding a statue of the video game character Waluigi (shown below). Within one week, the tweet garnered upwards of 1,500 likes and 1,000 retweets.

Also on June 14th, Redditor, PwnagraphicX submitted an edited image of Reedus tightly holding a PlayStation 4 console to the /r/gaming subreddit (shown below, left). Meanwhile, Twitter user @Nibellion^[2] posted a photoshopped picture of Reedus cradling a copy of the upcoming Wii U game The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (shown below, right). Within one week, the tweet gathered upwards of 1,600 likes and 1,500 retweets.

That day, Tumblr^[3] user zabka-zee posted an edited Christian painting featuring Kojima and Reedus (shown below). On June 15th, the video game news blog Destructoid^[1] published an article about the photoshop meme. On June 17th, Mashable^[4] published a listicle highlighting several notable examples.

Various Examples

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