Exploding Knees
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About
Exploding Knees is a photoshopped advertisement which depicts a young boy playing with a wireless Nintendo joystick and explosions erupting from his knee caps.
Origin
According to the tech news blog Geekosystem,[4] a Nintendo apparel ad was run by the company Homer's in 1994, featuring a young boy wearing a Super Mario hat and a Nintendo sweater while playing with a wireless joystick (shown below, left). On August 9th, 2007, a photoshopped version of the Nintendo advertisement was posted to a thread in the /b/ (random board) on 4chan,[9] which included explosions superimposed over the child's knees with the caption "Exploding Knees" (shown below, right).
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Spread
On January 24th, 2010, YouTuber xXUltraSushiXx uploaded a video featuring the exploding knees image macro, accompanied by a looped audio file of a text-to-speech voice narrating "Maik is pro in Sonic games, but just because he's gay" for 10 minutes (shown below).
On August 4th, 2011, DeviantArtist[2] Valenmere uploaded an illustration titled "Exploding Knees," featuring several renditions of the Nintendo ad (shown below, left). On September 5th, a Facebook[10] page titled "Help Raise Awareness of Exploding Knee's Syndrome" was launched. On November 30th, a T-shirt with the Exploding Knees image macro printed on the front was put up for sale on the online retailer Red Bubble[3] (shown below, middle). On December 5th, Canvas[7] user darkexecutor posted a photoshopped image of professional golfer Tiger Woods with exploding knees (shown below, right).
On April 6th, 2012, the Internet news blog Unreality Mag[5] highlighted the original 1994 ad, which was subsequently reblogged by the tech news sites Geekosystem[4] and Geeks Are Sexy[6] within the next week. On October 1st, an anonymous 4chan[8] user mentioned exploding knees while listing several of the imageboard's older memes.
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External References
[1] Moonbuggy – exploding knees
[2] DeviantArt – Exploding Knees
[3] Red Bubble – Exploding Knees
[4] Geekosystem – You Dont Really Love Nintendo
[5] Unreality Mag – Hot to Be the coolest Kid of 1994
[6] Geeks Are Sexy – Invasion of the Nintendoids
[7] Canvas – Tiger Wood photoshops
[8] 4chanarchive – 9 years of b
[9] Chanarchive – Baconator King of Foodchain
[10] Facebook – Help Raise Awareness of Exploding Knees Syndrome
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