About

Podium Guy, also known as Black Guy At Podium is an image macro that uses an image of Martin Baker, a Republican politician and political consultant, standing at a podium. Martin Baker is also know for a meme featuring him talking on the phone, called Black Guy On The Phone.

Origin

On September 17th, 2014, Imgur^[1] user WannaJacket posted a thread containing two Podium Guy memes (seen below). The thread gathered 11,000 upvotes in eight years.

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Spread

The image quickly gained moment, with several variations on the image macro going viral on Tumblr and Twitter. On November 24th, 2015, Twitter user @DammmmCam posted a tweet using the meme, gathering over 400 likes in less than a day (seen below). The post has since been deleted.

On April 1st, 2016, Tumblr^[3] user Henry Bottle Bryant posted a version of the meme, receiving 20,000 likes and 21,000 reposts (Seen below).

Various Examples

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