You Are Not a Clown. You Are The Entire Circus.

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You Are Not a Clown. You Are the Entire Circus. is a reaction image macro of a screenshot of the character Miles Edgeworth from the high-definition remaster of the video game Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy with a custom chyron.

Origin

On June 25th, 2019, Twitter^[1] user @javeigh tweeted, "you are not a clown. you are the entire circus." The post received more than 63,000 likes and 35,000 retweets in less than one month (shown below).

That day, Twitter^[2] user @Clankity retweeted the @javeigh with a joke about Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney character saying the line. They then posted an image from the Phoenix Wright objection generator.^[6] They captioned the post, "actually if you don't count the crappy ui this would probably be a pretty convincing looking screenshot from the game" (shown below).

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The following week, on July 1st, @Clankity tweeted^[3] the image with the caption "while y'all are here play ace attorney." The tweet received more than 1,200 likes and 300 retweets in less than one month (shown below, left).

Later that month, on July 20th, Redditor ^[4] Blademastermelee posted the image as the response to the joke "When you ask someone for the time and they reply time to get a watch." The post received more than 3,400 points (95% upvoted) and 65 comments in three days (shown below, left).

Following the post, more variations began to spread. On July 21st, Redditor^[5] PHAT_ASS_69 posted a variation of the image, using it at as a response to a joke about the spelling "I.C.U.P." The post received more than 24,000 points (97% upvoted) and 80 comments in two days (shown below, center).

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