About

Skim Beeble refers to a parody movie poster of a Fast and the Furious film called Speedy and Angrey, complete with the lead actors humorously photoshopped and renamed: The Rock to "The Brick," Paul Walker to "Celebrity Paul Walker," and Vin Diesel to "Skim Beeble." Skim Beeble went on to appear in other memes in the two years after the original picture was made.

Origin

On November 3rd, 2018, Instagram user @spuughetti^[7] posted the image. which also features Guy Fieri and Jimmy Barnes from Big Enough (shown below). Over the next two years, the image gained over 600 likes.

Spread

On November 7th, 2018, Facebook page^[1] Wacky memes for Wiseguys posted the image, gaining 57 shares. On November 13th, 2018, the image was reposted to Imgur^[2] where it began spreading, gaining over 5,500 views. It began appearing on other subreddits over the following year. On January 23rd, 2019 it appeared on /r/Sbubby,^[3] gaining over 1,200 points. On July 28th, it appeared in /r/195,^[4] gaining over 980 points. The image's popularity was contained mostly to being reposted in multiple subreddits, but it did inspire some variations. For example, an edit appeared on January 3rd, 2020 in /r/funny^[5] (shown below, left). On February 5th, an example with an alternate title appeared on Imgur,^[6] gaining over 1,500 likes (shown below, right).

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