About

Then and Now refers to a series of exploitable images that feature a young boy pulling an older woman and pointing at a movie poster in the past juxtaposed against a present day illustration of an adult male pulling an adult woman's arm while pointing at a remake, reboot or sequel of the movie in the adjacent image. Online, people have changed the movie posters depending on what movie is coming out soon.

Origin

On June 16th, 2015, DeviantArt ^[1] user Mickking posted a two-panel webcomic of young boy pulling a woman and crying while pointing at a Jurassic Park movie poster in 1993. The adjacent panel shows the same boy and woman in the same position and pointing at a Jurassic World poster in 2015.

Spread

Three days later, on June 19th, Redditor Vikram_Sharma posted the image on the subreddit /r/funny,^[2] where it received more than 12,000 points (84% upvoted) and 600 comments in two years. Around this time, an anonymous user posted the picture to Memecenter,^[3] receiving more than 4,000 likes.

On October 5th, Amino Apps^[4] user Samantha uploaded a version of the webcomic with the posters replaced with Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts X posters (shown below).

Over the next few months, people continued to exploit this web comic, replacing the posters with versions featuring Harry Potter, Spider-Man, The Power Rangers and more (examples below).

On August 8th, Redditor trover2345325 posted about this meme in the /r/OutOfTheLoop subreddit.^[5]

Various Examples

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