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Queen Elizabeth On A Billboard is an exploitable image of Queen Elizabeth with a message on a billboard in Piccadilly Circus. The image is typically edited by altering the text with an argument or a controversial opinion a kin to presentation edits. The images became popular in April 2020 during the coronavirus pandemic.

Origin

On April 8th, 2020, The BBC^[2] reported that a message from the Queen was displayed in Piccadilly Lights. The image of the message reading "We will be with our friends again; we will be with ur families again; we will meet again" was reposted to Twitter^[1] that day by BBC London (shown below).

Spread

On April 9th, 2020, Tumblr^[3] user TheWeirdWideWeb posted a screenshot of a tweet reading, "Imagine if someone showed you this picture six months ago and asked you to figure out what must have happened" next to the image of the billboard and garnered over 88,460 notes in 11 days (shown below left). On April 17th, Redditor Whovian1701 posted an edit to r/PrequelMemes^[4] which replaced the test with "The Kingdom will be reorganized into the first galactic empire!" (shown below, right). The post received over 54,800 points (94% upvoted) in three days.

The next day, Redditor TheSoulVibrators posted an edit to r/memes.^[5] The image which edited the text to say, "you need to start thinking about the world you're going to leave for me" referencing Queen Elizabeth is Immortal memes gained over 45,800 points (97% upvoted) in two days (shown below). StayHipp^[6] published an article on the memes.

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