Bobby Hill Ascending / Out Of Body Experience

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Bobby Hill Ascending / Out Of Body Experience, also known as Bobby Hill High, Bobby Soul Leaving Body or Out Of Bobby Experience, refers to a photoshopped image of a scene from King Of The Hill depicting Bobby Hill laying shirtless on the floor with his soul lifting out of his body using a glitchy aesthetic. The image was originally posted to Tumblr in 2015, seeing significant use in image macros and as a reaction image over the course of the following years, often used to describe the feeling of hearing good music and being high on drugs.

Origin

On September 22nd, 1998, season three episode two of King of the Hill aired, titled "And They Call It Bobby Love."^[1] In the episode, Bobby Hill falls in love with a girl in his class, who eventually tells him she only wants to be friends. This breaks Bobby's heart. In one scene, he lies on the floor shirtless while listening to sad music to express this pain (shown below).

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On July 5th, 2015, Tumblr^[2] user Tunnelman posted an edit of a screenshot from the scene depicting Bobby on the floor with his soul, rainbow-colored and glitchy looking, raising from his still body (shown below). The post gained over 75,000 notes in six years.

Spread

The image began spreading across the web over the course of the year, soon seeing use as a reaction image in image macros. On April 19th, 2016, Tumblr^[3] user theforgetfulstoner-blog posted an image macro using the image, originally from Instagram page @Stonerflix (since deleted), offering one of the earliest examples of the image used in a meme (shown below, left). The image became considerably popular in stoner memes following this. For example, on November 5th, Tumblr^[4] page lsd-something-something posted an image macro about eating a strong marijuana edible using the image, garnering over 144,000 notes in five years (shown below, right). This is one of the most reshared versions of the meme.

The image became increasingly popular on Reddit boards like /r/memes and /r/dankmemes over the course of 2019 and 2020. On April 10th, 2020, Redditor u/Jacobthesoviet posted a new image macro using the image to /r/dankmemes,^[6] garnering over 14,000 upvotes in a year (shown below).

On April 23rd, 2021, Imgur^[5] user esctrl posted an animated video inspired by the image, garnering over 90,000 views and 1,200 upvotes in two months (shown below).

The image is also used as a reaction image to various content, often used to show an intense enjoyment of it. For example, on June 25th, Twitter^[7] user @Aaron_Venture posted the image in reaction to the latest Tyler, The Creator album (shown below).