About

What You See vs. What She Sees is an image macro meme that allows people to joke about the perspective of someone receiving oral sex and someone performing oral sex. In general, the meme contains a picture of a woman engaging in female-to-male oral sex and a picture of a visibly less attractive man staring downward towards her.

Origin

One of the earliest versions of "What you see" occurred on November 11th, 2015. Twitter user @BiiankCaroliina^[3] posted two images (shown below), the first, of a man and woman kissing, and the second of the same woman kissing a stack of money.

Bianca @BiiankCaroliina What you see vs.what she sees #5SOSFAME ru

Precursor

On May 24th, 2012, Buzzfeed^[1] published a listicle juxtaposing what pets see vs. what their masters see, which, as of May 2017, has received more than 18,000 views. The article was based on a picture posted by Redditor down_vote_magnet^[2] the subreddit /r/FruitUnion entitled "How My Cat Sees Things…" Before being archived, the post received more than 2,100 points (84% upvoted) and 420 comments.

Spread

On July 13th, 2016, Twitter user @MiekRussPls^[4] tweeted (shown below) a variation on the @BiiankCaroliina picture, this time adding a still from a pornography film and M. Bison from the Street Fighter anime. The caption, however, was still largely the same: "what u see vs what she sees." The pos received more than 240 retweets and 500 likes."

miek russ @MiekRussPls what u see vs what she sees

Four months later, on November 3rd, 2016, WorldStarHipHop shared a variation on Twitter.^[5] The image had been changed to a woman on her back on the left and dog staring down on her on the right. The photo (shown below) received more than 8,200 retweets and 20,600 likes.

WORLDSTARHIPHOP WORLDSTAR What you see vs. what she sees

Throughout November 2016, however, most users returned to the initial images, sharing variations of the original @MiekRussPls post. Below were the two most commonly shared variations of "What u see vs what she sees." On the left, the tweet by @Nudah^[6] received more than 2,000 retweets and 4,100 like, and on the right, a tweet by @nostop^[7] has received more than 260 retweets and 500 likes.

SOAR NUDAH @Nudah what u see vs. what she sees

daniel @nonstop What u see vs what she sees

The most commonly shared version of the meme combines a picture of Ethan Klein of
h3h3 Prodctuions, which he Tweeted to JonTron on January 13th, 2017.^[8] The photo was then added to "what u see" template (shown below) by Redditor Edvoh^[9] in the subreddit /r/h3h3productions, received more than 1,100 points (97% upvoted) and 40 comments. Klein then tweeted it on his personal Twitter,^[10] garnering more than 12,600 retweets and 46,400 likes in five months.