About

Your Mother and I Will Always Love You is a series of exploitables based on a four-panel webcomic by Devin Le. Online, people have customized the panels to feature different characters, opinions and ideas. In the end, however, the idea is to make the opinion expressed in panel three appear foolish, obnoxious and/or wrong.

Origin

On December 4th, 2016, Devin Le published the original comic, "The One about a Baby" on the website Webtoons.com for his series "According to Devin."^[1] In the comic, Le presents a four-panel story about a young couple meeting their newborn son for the first time. The father says to the child, "You my son and no matter what, your mother and I will always love you." The child responds, "I think Cars is the best Pixar movie of all time." In the final panel, the child is seen in a cardboard box wit the words "Free Disappointment (comes w/ a bow)" written on the side. The comic (shown below) received more than 1,400 likes.

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Over the next few months, Le continued to share the comic on his various social channels. On April 4th, 2017 he posted it to Tumblr, ^[2]receiving more 7,600 notes as of July 2017. Three months later, on June 29th, he posted it to Facebook, where it received more than 2,600 reactions, 430 shares and 100 comments in less than two weeks.^[3]

Even before it could be posted to those sites, others began photoshopping the comic. The Instagram account @overwwatch^[4] posted one of the earliest, replacing the characters from "According to Devin" with characters from Overwatch on December 17th, 2017. The post (shown below) received more than 7,800 likes in eight months.

Over the next few months, users online continued to use the comic as a template. On December 28th, Funny Junk user nolifeguide^[5] changed the dialogue from the comic, replacing the line about Pixar's Cars to a read "Did you misgender me, cis-scum?" The comic (shown below, left) received more than 10,000 views and 445 upvotes. Three months later, on March 1st, 2017, the Facebook account Order of Rexxar^[6] photoshopped characters from World of Warcraft into the comic (shown below, right). The post received more than 660 reactions and 20 shares in three months.

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