Choking Doppio

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About

Choking Doppio, also known as Transforming Doppio, refers to an image of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure character Vinegar Doppio holding his throat while his alternate personality Diavolo is analyzing the combat situation. Online, the image has been circulated as a reaction, with a comically distorted version of the image gaining popularity in September 2019.

Origin

On April 20th, 2019,^[9] episode 27 "King Crimson vs. Metallica" of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure anime series premiered.^[1] In one scene of the episode, character Vinegar Doppio is shown holding his breath while regaining composure, with his alternate personality Diavolo analyzing the combat situation in the meantime (scene shown below). The change in the current personality occupying the Doppio/Diavolo's mind is reflected via a color balance shift.

Spread

On April 19th, 2019, Redditor D0nut_boy posted the still image from the episode to /r/cursedjojo subreddit.^[8] On the same day, Redditor hradium posted the first meme based on the image to /r/ShitPostCrusaders subreddit, with the post receiving over 1,700 upvotes in six months (shown below).^[2]

In the following weeks, more memes based on the image were posted on Reddit and Instagram (examples shown below).

Prior to June 27th, 2019, an unknown user posted a Content Aware Scaling edit of the image. On June 27th, 2019, Twitter user @nitirushh posted the earliest copy of the image discoverable online (shown below).^[3]

On July 5th, 2019, Redditor punishedjew posted a meme based on the distorted image, with the submission gaining over 4,200 upvotes (shown below, left).^[4] On August 23rd, 2019, Instagram user oimaghost posted another meme, with the post accumulating over 440 likes (shown below, right).^[5] On August 28th, 2019, Redditor warm-ice reposted the oimaghost's meme, with the post receiving over 16,700 upvotes in one month.^[6]

The distorted version of the image did not see further spread until on September 23rd, 2019, Redditor eirweshire posted a meme based on it to /r/ShitPostCrusaders subreddit which gained over 16,000 upvotes in one week,^[7] prompting further use of the reaction in the community.