About

Powder That Makes You Say "Yes" refers to an exploitable comic strip in which the character Plastic Man says "Yes" while ingesting the contents of a box labeled "Powder that makes you say yes."

Origin

The comic panel is itself an exploited panel of the DC Comics character Plastic Man comic in which the character is ingesting a box labeled "Salt" and saying "What." The earliest known date it appeared online is April 3rd, 2016, where it appeared in a Reddit thread arguing RWBY shipping. ^[1]

The variation in which the texts are altered to read "Yes" and "Powder That Makes You Say Yes" appeared on Reddit in /r/bonehurtingjuice^[2] on July 4th, 2017. There, it gained over 860 points.

Spread

Over the following two weeks, the picture and its texts began appearing in different templates. On July 12th, two popular edits were posted to Facebook. An edit posted to Exploding Fish Shitposting and Senseless Drivel, Inc.^[3] gained over 1,500 likes and reactions (shown below, left). Another edit that used the Art Gallery Puking template was posted to Ｖｉｒｔｕａｌ Ｅｘｐｅｒｉｅｎｃｅｓイキがいい^[4] and gained 535 points (shown below, right).

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