I'm The Invisible Man
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I'm The Invisible Man refers to a series of reaction image macros featuring a screenshot from the music video for the song "The Invisible Man" by the English rock band Queen. The image is used as the punchline to posts about successfully appearing secretive.
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On August 7th, 1989, the Queen song "The Invisible Man" was released as a single.[1] On September 29th, 2008, the 1989 music video for the song was published on official Queen YouTube account. In about 10 years, the video has received more than 12 million views (shown below).
Roughly a decade later, on November 7th, 2018, Redditor SoMeBoDyOnCeToLdMeAS posted a screen capture from the video of Queen singer Freddie Mercury in green sunglasses and the subtitles "I'm the invisible man" in /r/dankmemes subreddit.[2] They captioned the post "2nd graders when they stand behind the seeker in hide and seek." The post received more than 32,000 points (96% upvoted) in less than 24 hours (shown below).
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Following the post, various other Redditors posted versions of the meme in /r/dankmemes. For example, Redditor[3] babydoll_bd posted the image with the caption "When people make plans right in front of you but don't include you in the plans." The post received more than 3,000 points (99% upvoted) in 24 hours (shown below, left). Throughout the day, more examples were posted in the subreddit (shown below, center and right).
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[1] Wikipedia – The Invisible Man (Queen Song
[2] Reddit – Those kids all at Harvard right now
[3] Reddit – Can relate.
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