Show us your story exploitable meme format depicting a chart with a person standing and various labels underneath it.

Show Us Your Story

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Updated Jun 07, 2023 at 01:52PM EDT by Zach.

Added Jun 06, 2023 at 04:11PM EDT by Philipp.

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About

Show Us Your Story is an exploitable image of a human body shown from the front and back that prompts the viewer to mark areas that were harmed over their lifetime. Used on DeviantArt since 2011, the meme format first achieved virality across 4chan and Tumblr in 2014 and spawned a parody trend on Twitter in May 2023.

Origin

On December 8th, 2011, DeviantArt[1] user Daisiesinbloom posted a stock drawing of a human body shown from the front and back captioned "show us your story" and offered the viewer to mark it with different colors representing types of harm, including red for self-harm, purple for burn scars, pink for animal incidents and blue for surgeries (shown below). The original author of the image and where and when it was first posted are currently unconfirmed.


Self harm: Burn Scars: Animal Incidents: Childhood Memories: Show us your story. Surgery: Other:

Spread

The trend achieved initial popularity on DeviantArt in 2012. For example, on August 1st, 2012, DeviantArt[2] user Scorchfur18 posted a version that received over 3,700 views in 11 years (shown below, left). On December 9th, 2012, DeviantArt[3] user RaddRebel posted their version that gained over 4,700 views in a similar period.


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On June 28th, 2014, an unknown 4chan user posted the template in a /b/ thread, with other users filling and sharing their versions (example shown below, left). On that day, an anonymous user posted the earliest found humorous edit of the exploitable (shown below, right). Later on June 28th, Know Your Meme[4][5] user πŸ…±ank πŸ…±ill and others archived several images from the thread on the site, with πŸ…±ank πŸ…±ill also starting a forum[6] thread for the template.


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The format saw further spread on Tumblr, Twitter and 4chan in the following years, with humorous examples being occasionally shared. For example, on March 29th, 2016, an anonymous 4chan user posted a humorous version in a /b/[7] thread (shown below, left). On August 3rd, an anonymous 4chan user shared[8] a version referencing villain Two-Face from Batman (shown below, right).


Show us your story. Self harm Burn scars Childhood memories Surgery Other Vietnam Flashbacks Animal incidents Show us your story. Self harm Burn scars Animal incidents I Childhood memories Surgery Other

The image resurfaced as a parody format on Twitter in May 2023 after Twitter[9] user @YourkshireReborn posted an edit on May 19th, 2023, referencing the character Frieza from Dragon Ball (shown below, left) that gained over 130 retweets and 2,100 likes in three weeks. For example, on June 2nd, 2023, Twitter[10] user @pileofants posted a humorous version captioned "my tragic story πŸ’”πŸ’”πŸ’”." The tweet (shown below, right) garnered over 890 retweets and 12,900 likes in five days.


Self harm: Burn Scars: Animal Incidents: Childhood Memories: Show us your story. Surgery: Other: a pile of antsTM @pileofants my tragic story Show us your story. 11 Self harm: Burn Scars: Animal Incidents: Childhood Memories: 7:11 PM Jun 2, 2023 4.7M Views Surgery: Other: :

Various Examples


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Templates


Self harm: Burn Scars: Animal Incidents: Childhood Memories: Show us your story. Surgery: Other: Show us your story. Self harm Burn scars Animal incidents . Childhood memories . Surgery Other

Search Interest

External References

[1] DeviantArt – jkjjknm nb

[2] DeviantArt – Show us your story

[3] DeviantArt – RaddRebel

[4] Know Your Meme – random thread on /b/ – 'show us your injuries'

[5] Know Your Meme – /thread

[6] Know Your Meme – show us your injuries

[7] 4archive – /b/ Post #676476296

[8] 4archive – /b/ Post #697761079

[9] Twitter – @YorkshireReborn

[10] Twitter – @pileofants

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