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Man Distracted By Laptop refers to a series of two-pane exploitable images juxtaposing a picture of a man looking at his laptop while engaging in sexual activity around him with a picture of another laptop, representing what the man is looking at.

Origin

On February 6th, 2015, Instagram user @kyle.sprick posted the image of the man on a laptop. They captioned the image, "Thanks @danbilzerian I didn't think I'd meet chicks this fast!" The post received more than 12,000 likes in less than five years (shown below).

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On February 12th, 2015, Russian message board Pikabu^[1] user GrinGoPsixoPat posted the image. However, because the image has a 9GAG watermark, it can be inferred that the image existed prior to this day. The image (shown below) received more than 2,600 upvotes in less than three years.

Several months later, on November 27th, 2015, the image appeared on the /r/meirl subreddit, ^[2] where it received more than 230 points (97% upvoted).

Three days later, Instagram ^[3] user @papafranku posted the picture above an image of a laptop with the video "Filthy Frank vs Chin Chin" photoshopped on to the screen. The post (shown below) received more than 50,000 likes in 13 months.

The following year, on May 6th, the Facebook ^[8] account WAAAAAARPED posted a variation in which the man is looking at the video game Crash Bandicoot. The post (shown below, left) received more than 2,600 reactions and 2,000 shares in seven months.

Several weeks later, on May 23rd, Twitter ^[7] user @yahboycourage tweeted a side-by-side variation. In this example (shown below, center), the image on the right features a screenshot from the video game Minecraft on the laptop screen. Within one year, the post received more than 1,800 retweets and 3,900 likes.

Later that year, on December 29th, Redditor^[6] Lone-Wolf-Party posted a variant, which shows a Google image search results for Jesus the bottom-pane laptop, in the /r/MemeEconomy subreddit. The post (shown below, right) received more than 170 points (93% upvoted) in 15 hours.

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