About

History Channel at Night refers to a series of memes ridiculing the History Channel's late-night programming in a hyperbolized manner. The meme format, often phrased as "History Channel at Midnight" or "History Channel at 3am," gained popularity on Reddit in late June 2019.

Origin

On June 18th, Redditor^[1] conschrtructor posted a meme making fun of the History Channel's late night programming using an edited version of "Hitler vs. Stalin" art by Daniar Joldoshbekov (shown below).^[2] The post gained over 53,600 upvotes in /r/dankmemes subreddit in one week.

Spread

In the following week, the meme was reposted on Reddit several times, including a June 23rd repost in /r/HistoryMemes subreddit.^[3] On June 24th, 2019, Redditor oxidisingshallot posted the first known derivative of the meme to /r/HistoryMemes, gaining over 1,400 upvotes (shown below, left).^[4] On the same day, Redditor Nordicraider859 posted a Minions version of the meme to /r/dankmemes (shown below, right), receiving over 20,600 upvotes.^[5]

In the following hours, the format saw a significant spread on Reddit, with multiple notable examples appearing in /r/dankmemes,^[6] /r/memes^[7] and other subreddits.

Various Examples

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