This Poster Is a Skeleton

About

"This Poster is a Skeleton" is an image macro featuring a downward-pointing arrow and variations of the phrasal template ""this poster is an X / do not trust what he says."" On 4chan and other imageboard communities, variations of the image marco have been used as forum weapons to mock other posters in discussion threads.

Origin

On August 13th, 2014, an image macro with a downward pointing arrow and the caption "This poster is a skeleton / Do not trust what he says" was submitted in a thread on 4chan (shown below).

Spread

The same day, a screen capture of the thread was submitted to the r/4chan subreddit.^[1] On November 18th, 2014, an anonymous 4chan^[3] user posted a variation of the image accusing the next poster of being a "spider" to a thread about Laci Green on the /b/ (Random) board (shown below, left). On September 6th, 2015, Redditor notcreative77 posted a version of the image macro featuring the character Randy Bobandy from the television show Trailer Park Boys to /r/trailerparkboys,^[5] where it received more than 650 votes (91% upvoted) and 50 comments in four months (shown below, right).

On September 22nd, FunnyJunk^[2] user Anetheril posted a photoshopped version of the image macro accusing the next poster of being a "poster" (shown below, left). On November 22nd, Tumblr^[4] user Oshama-Scramble posted a variation of the image featuring the character Jerry from Undertale (shown below, right).

Various Examples

Search Interest

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