Tinky Winky Joins Hand Stacking

About

Tinky Winky Joins Hand Stacking refers to a webcomic by Mike Organisciak in which Power Rangers are stacking their hands, with Tinky Winky from Teletubbies joining them, followed by Power Rangers looking at him with anger. Starting in late 2018, the webcomic gained popularity as an object labeling exploitable.

Origin

On May 6th, 2017, artist Mike Organisiak posted^[1] a seven-panel comic in which Power Rangers stacked their hands, with Tinky Winky from Teletubbies joining in in the sixth panel. In the last panel of the comic, Power Rangers look at Tinky Winky with anger (shown below). The post received over 210 likes and 36 shares on Facebook.

Spread

On May 15th, 2017, Imgur^[2] user youandmeandrainbows posted the comic as a part of a cartoon dump, with the post gaining over 145,700 views in two years.

The comic did not see spread as a meme until on December 15th, 2018, Redditor^[3] wingsonshoes posted it to /r/MemeEconomy subreddit, with the post gaining over 290 upvotes in six months. On December 17th, 2018, Redditor^[4] diamond203 posted a Fortnite Bad meme which received over 9,900 upvotes (shown below).

The post prompted the viral spread of the object-labeling format on Reddit in the following days. For example, on December 19th, 2018, Redditor^[5] thathardwareguy posted a meme which received over 29,700 upvotes in six months (shown below, left). On December 23rd Redditor^[6] darthcoughcough posted a Prequel meme that accumulated over 12,100 upvotes in the same period (shown below, right).

The webcomic maintained its popularity as an object labeling template in the following years, particularly in meme communities on Reddit and Facebook.

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