About

Rose Looking at Jack's Sketchbook is an exploitable image macro series based on a scene from the 1997 drama film Titanic. The series features the character Rose admiring Jack's artwork, while below the image from the film asserts what Rose is looking at for humorous effect.

Origin

On December 17th, 2020, Titanic was released in the United States. In the film, the character Jack shows Rose (portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, respectively) his sketchbook, to which Rose responds positively.

The earliest known usage of the meme was published on the Facebook ^[1] group PRI de PRIetos on January 6th, 2020. The post features a crude drawing of the cartoon characters the Minions as a stand-in for Jack's artwork (shown below).

Spread

Throughout January, the meme continued to spread and inspire new variations. However, it's first major inflection point happened on January 15h. That day, a post featuring Pokémon as a stand-in for the artwork, appeared on Reddit and Instagram (shown below). The Reddit^[2] post, uploaded by Redditor Vadboi, received more than 75,000 points (95% upvoted) and 370 comments, while the Instagram^[3] post, shared by @trashcanpaul, received 75,000 likes in less than two weeks.

Following the Pokémon post, variations began appearing in greater numbers. On January 16th, Redditor^[4] blas_20 posted a variation in the /r/LatinoPeopleTwitter subreddit. The post received more than 3,100 points (98% upvoted) in less than two weeks (shown below, center). The following day, Redditor^[5] shared a version about presidential candidate Andrew Yang in the /r/YangForPresidentiHQ subreddit (shown below, right).

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