Thick Book vs. Thin Book
About
Thick Book vs. Thin Book or Big Book vs. Small Book refers to a comparison meme format based on an image of a thick book and a thin book shown side by side. The format gained moderate popularity on Reddit in June 2019.
Origin
On June 17th, 2019, Redditor CosmowYoung posted an image of a thick book and a thin book shown side by side captioned "Greek mythology" and "Greek mythology without Zeus' sex life" to /r/memes and /r/me_irl subreddits (shown below).[1][2] The posts gained over 74,100 and 27,900 upvotes in two days, respectively.
Spread
In the following hours, the image was reposted in numerous subreddits, including popular posts in /r/dankmemes[3] and /r/HistoryMemes.[4]
In the following days, memes based on the image appeared in a variety of subreddits, including notable posts in /r/Animemes, [5] /r/PewdiepieSubmissions [6] and /r/HistoryMemes.[7] In some examples, books of similar size were compared.
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External References
[3] Reddit – Io the cow ……..
[4] Reddit – Another Zeus shitpost
[5] Reddit – Well man these filler arcs
[6] Reddit – Sweden's national treasure 🇸🇪
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MemeGraveYard
Jun 19, 2019 at 09:21AM EDT
Pearl: crystal gem
Jun 19, 2019 at 10:36AM EDT in reply to