About

#StarringJohnCho is a photoshop meme featuring various movie posters edited with actor John Cho added to the cast, which is aimed at promoting the casting of Asian and Asian-American actors for lead roles in Hollywood films.

Origin

On April 28th, 2016, the @StarringJohnCho^[1] Twitter feed was launched, which posted a photoshopped poster for the 2012 superhero film The Avengers with Cho's face superimposed on to Captain America (shown below).

Spread

On May 5th, 2016, StarringJohnCho.com^[5] was launched to promote the photoshop meme and Asian diversity in film.

The following day, the @Fusion Twitter feed posted a video about the Twitter hashtag and photoshop meme.

On May 7th, actor Ki Hong Lee retweeted the hashtag along with an article about the photoshop meme (shown below, left).^[3] The following day, Redditor TheWallClock submitted a post about #StarringJohnCho to the /r/AsianMasculinity^[2] subreddit, highlighting several notable photoshop examples. On May 9th, Cho posted a heart emoji in a tweet directed toward the @StarringJohnCho feed (shown below, right).^[4]

In the coming days, several news sites published articles about the photoshop meme, including Refinery 29,^[6] The Hollywood Reporter,^[7] Jezebel,^[8] The New York Times^[9] and CNN.^[10]

Various Examples

Search Interest

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