Adios Wormhole

About

Adiós Wormhole is a reaction image macro series featuring an image edit of a man in red shirt and red shorts stepping through a wormhole.

Origin

The earliest available version of the original image was published by the website Cuded^[1] on September 12th, 2012. They credit the image to the Imaginary Foundation, "a think tank from Switzerland that does experimental research on new ways of thinking and the power of the imagination." The original image features a person walking through the wormhole with a bag in their hand (shown below).

On February 7th, 2020, Tumblr ^[2] user crtter shared the image in response to a screenshot from the video game Pokémon Go. The post received more than 128,000 notes in less than one year (shown below, left).

The origin of the Adios image, however, is unknown. However, less than one month after the image on Tumblr went viral, the image of the man in red began appearing online. The earliest available version was published by the Facebook ^[3] account shitpostingconstickers on March 6th, 2020 (shown below, right).

Spread

The following month, on April 10th, Twitter ^[4] user @reactjpg shared the image with the caption "man in durag and giant clothes entering wormhole in space adios" (shown below, left).

On May 15th, Redditor ^[5] asssassin3435 shared the image in the /r/comedyheaven subreddit, where it received more than 8,600 points (99% upvoted) and 100 comments in less than one month (shown below, left). The following day, on May 16th, Redditor^[7] shared the image with a caption about how a hug from a significant other helped depression. The post received more than 5,700 points (98% upvoted) in less than one month (shown below, center).

Five days later, on May 20th, Redditor^[6] theBiggestBoiCP shared the image with a joke about a mother inviting company over. The post received more than 1,000 points (99% upvoted) in less than one week (shown below, right).

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