Unimpressed Lizard

Updated Jul 22, 2014 at 03:33PM EDT by Molly Horan.

Added Jul 22, 2014 at 12:09PM EDT by Molly Horan.

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About

Unimpressed Lizard is a photoshop meme based on an image of a lizard gazing at the camera with a grumpy expression on its face. The cutout image of the lizard is superimposed onto a variety of base images, in a similar vein to many other photoshop memes and image macros that have been inspired by photographs of bored looking subjects.

Origin

On July 21st, 2014, Redditor ehar101 submitted a photo titled "My gf is on vacation and sent me this picture. I found it hilarious and thought I'd share" featuring a small, bored looking lizard to the /r/pics^[2] subreddit. In less than 24 hours the picture gained over 2,000 points.

Spread

Also on July 21st, the original photo was named "Photoshop Battle of the Day" by several sites including Chimpout^[4] and Gurt.^[5] On July 22nd, Buzzfeed^[1] published a round-up of the meme titled "Unimpressed Lizard Is Your New Favourite Meme." The same day Mashable^[3] also published a round-up.