Do You Wanna See the Most Illegal Thing I Own?

About

Do You Wanna See the Most Illegal Thing I Own? is an image macro of Michael Stevens of VSauce during the beginning of his October 2019 YouTube video "Laws & Causes" asking the audience "Do you wanna see the most illegal thing I own?" The image quickly became popular on reddit as the top panel of a two panel image featuring something illegal or "cursed" in the bottom panel.

Origin

On October 1st, 2019, Vsauce uploaded "Laws & Causes" (shown below). The video gained over 1.3 million views in two days. In the video Michael Stevens poses the question to the audience then show the audience a 2027 penny.

Spread

On October 1st, 2019, Redditor JosephStalin1953 posted the image macro to r/memeeconomy^[1] to proposed a new template (shown below, left). The post garnered over 30 points (90% upvoted) in two days. The next day, Redditor WeakWrecker posted the image paired with an alternative lego stacking device to r/memes^[2] and received over 21,000 points (98% upvoted) in a day. On October 3rd, Redditor Anti-vaxFlatEarther posted a Minecraft iteration to r/dankmemes^[3] which accumulated over 26,200 points (97% upvoted) in a day (shown below, right).

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