About

The Bowler is an object labeling image macro series featuring a photograph of a man throwing a bowling ball down a lane, which are typically captioned with the labels "Me" on the man and various humorous jokes on the bowling pins and bowling ball.

Origin

On December 24th, 2017, Redditor SpooningThemSofty submitted the photo with the pins labeled with the caption "Enjoy your movie, sir" and a photo of a movie theater ticketing agent with the bowling ball labeled "You too" (shown below). Within 48 hours, the post gained over 1,900 points (98% upvoted) on /r/me_irl.^[1]

Spread

On December 25th, 2017, Redditor hoodo12 posted the picture with the bowling pins captioned with "everyone else at the party" and the bowling ball labeled "LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga Cheat Codes" to /r/me_irl^[6] (shown below, left). That day, Redditor bacon_trays_for_days posted a variation of the image with pins labeled "everyone else at the party" and the bowling ball labeled "unwanted facts about serial killers" to /r/MemeEconomy^[5] (shown below, right).

On December 26th, Redditor troutline9209 submitted a flat earth-themed variation of the image to /r/MemeEconomy^[4] (shown below, left). That day, Instagram user @salad.snake^[3] reposted Redditor SpooningThemSoftly's "Enjoy your movie, sir" image. That day, Redditor MaverickSoul9 submitted a variation featuring lyrics from the theme song for the television sitcom Friends to /r/me_irl^[2] (shown below).

Various Examples

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