Deboonker

About

Deboonker is a variation of an -oomer Wojak meme that parodies and satirizes skeptics, debunkers, and fact-checkers. It oftentimes depicts a Wojak with glasses and updo blond hair, the overall look is supposed to parody the famous debunker Adam Conover.^[1] Additionally, memes featuring the Deboonker often depict the character as constantly referencing the fact-checking website Snopes. ^[2]

Origins

First known instance of the deboonker meme appeared on 4chan on a /bant/ board on August 12th, 2020 with the caption "Why are skeptics like this" (shown below).^[3] In the attached image the deboonker has been described as having "love for "science", being liberal, hating misinformation, referencing fact-checking platform Snopes, and having a habit of pointing out that something is a conspiracy theory.

Spread

On October 20th, 2020, the next known instance appeared on Reddit ^[4] in a subreddit named r/averageredditor with the title "A new kind of Redditor has been identified" that gained 650 upvotes and 58 comments (shown below). In it, the deboonker has been presented with a notable satirized look of Adam Conover^[1] and has been attributed such traits as asking for sources and having the desire to "deboonk."

On October 21st, 2020, Twitter user @Ouroborbros^[5] posted an image with Deboonker titled as "Actually, the Leslie Stahl interview walk-out has been #DEBUNKED !". In this image the deboonker was presented as a fat person with an NPC Wojak face, described as not being impartial and having the tendency to ignore "dubious left-wing sources", to deboonk only right-wing sources, using Reddit 14 hours a day and having watched every Marvel movie.

Then later that day, the next known deboonker meme was published in a Facebook group "The Legend of Chad: Ocarina of Memes"^[6] in a Virgin vs Chad meme format where the "happener" (a person, usually a conspiracy theory enjoyer who believes that something big is about to happen) was presented as the virgin and the deboonker was presented as the Chad that can debunk something in a matter of seconds and that has a "super snoper 500" rifle (shown below).

Further spread happened after Ian Miles Chong^[7], an American journalist and a political commentator, posted an image on Twitter that depicted a deboonker meme on October 26th, 2020, gaining over 2,200 thousand likes and 600 retweets (quote-tweets included). He titled the tweet as "It's unverifiable because I refuse to verify it, therefore it didn't happen." (shown below).

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