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Skyrim Eye Width, also known as Skyrim Width Sliders, refers to a series of photoshop exploitables in which photographs are juxtaposed next to the eye width character customization controls of the video game Skyrim. The first photograph is unaltered. In the second photograph, however, the eye width increases or decreases, depending on the adjacent control slider.

Origin

On July 18th, 2017, Twitter user @ItsArthurXD posted a four panel photoshop exploitable of YouTuber Pyrocynical next to the eye width character customization controls from Syrim. In the top half of the meme, Pycrocynical is next to the the unchanged eye width slider. In the bottom half, the slider is moved up to 100 and the photo of Pyrocynical is manipulated to make his eyes look farther apart. Within a week, the tweet (shown below) received more than 30 retweets and 200 likes.^[1]

Spread

Several days later, on July 23rd, Redditor Hydroplane2010 posted a variation of the meme, placing a great white shark in the top half and a hammerhead shark on the bottom half. The post (shown below, left) received more than 37,000 points (85% upvoted) and 200 comments on the /r/DankMemes subreddit.^[2] The meme also appeared on the /r/Gaming subreddit where it received an additional 800 points (84% upvoted).^[3]

That day, the Facebook page Just Another Meme Page posted another variation of a chihuahua dog with its eyes altered to appear wider. The post (shown below, right) received more than 3,7900 reactions, 1,000 comments and 9,100 shares.^[4]

On July 24th, the meme appeared on the /r/MemeEconomy subreddit two times in the threads "Stocks for this meme have already taken a huge hit. Spotted on Facebook" and "Booty width evolution. Light buy."^[5][6]

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