About

Tickets to Joker, Please is a phrasal template used to caption photographs of people the meme's author believes to be the stereotypical audience for the 2019 comic book film Joker. These images generally showcase men in fedoras, infamous mass shooters and depictions of internet trolls.

Origin

The earliest known usage of the meme was published by an anonymous 4chan ^[1] user on the /tv/ board on September 2nd, 2019. Their post featured a photograph of the Columbine High School shooters Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris and the message "2 tickets to Joker please" (shown below).

Spread

Over the next few days, others on 4chan^[2] shared variations of the meme, posting other images of people they believe to be the audience for the film (example below).

Days later, on September 6th, Twitter ^[3] user @goatdiehard shared an image of the Coomer meme with the caption "Hi, one ticket to Joker please. Yes, just one. Yes, again." Within one month, the tweet received more than 160 likes (shown below, left).

On September 9th, Redditor ^[4] shared a Gigachad image and the caption "Three tickets to Joker please." The post received more than 1,900 points (99% upvoted) and 50 comments in less than one month (shown below, center).

The following week, on September 16th, the Instagram ^[5] account for @memebase shared a variation that featured a group of men wearing fedoras. The post received more than 2,800 likes in one week (shown below, right).

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