About

Who Would Win? is an image macro series posing the question "who would win" in various hypothetical battles between two opposing subjects.

Origin

On November 21st, 2010, a 4chan user submitted a thread asking viewers to speculate "would would win" in a battle between the video game characters Solid Snake and Sam Fisher (shown below). Four days later, a screenshot of the post was uploaded by FunnyJunk^[2] user isaacshadow.

Spread

On November 23rd, 2014, a 4chan user posted an "Who Would Win" image macro pitting "a stick" against "1000 US Marines" (shown below, left). On January 22nd, 2015, a "jet fuel can't melt steel beams"-themed image macro was submitted to /r/BraveryJerk^[4] (shown below).

On February 1st, a 4chan user posted an image comparing "1 trillion lions" to the Earth's sun, to which an anonymous user responded "the lions would win if they attacked at night" (shown below, left). On May 28th, Tumblr user shrekyourself posted a version of the image with actor Jeff Goldblum vs. himself (shown below, right).

On August 1st, 2016, Redditor SpookySpookist submitted an image macro titled "Who Would Win? Meme of the Month," pitting Arthur's Fist against Harambe (shown below, left). Prior to being archived, the post gained over 1,900 votes (91% upvoted) and 110 comments on /r/dankmemes.^[1] On September 9th, Redditor dank420memes1337 posted a Spongebob Squarepants-themed Who Would Win image to /r/dankmemes^[3] (shown below, right).

UNITINU

On November 19th, 2017, Redditor Luxime submitted a Who Would Win? image macro featuring a UNITINU-style mirrored images of Barack Obama labeled "Obabo" and "Amama" (shown below). Within two weeks, the post gained over 21,500 points (90% upvoted) and 200 comments on /r/me_irl.^[5]

Over the next several weeks, similar "Who Would Win?" image macros were submitted to other subreddits, including /r/dankmemes^[6] and /r/MemeEconomy^[7] (shown below).

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