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Just Make It Exist First, You Can Make It Good Later is an art trend and exploitable meme inspired by a motivational graphic originally posted by the Instagram page @growthbyvisuals in late April 2025. The graphic shows a roughly drawn blue-green or teal circle labeled, "Just make it exist first," followed by a neatly drawn circle captioned, "You can make it good later." The graphic came to be used by artists to share rough drafts and final artworks, and inspired discussions and debates about innovations that emerged from imperfect prototypes.

Origin

On April 21st, 2025, the Instagram^[1] page @growthbyvisuals posted a motivational infographic depicting a roughly drawn blue-green circle labeled, "Just make it exist first," followed by a neatly drawn circle labeled, "You can make it good later." The post gathered over 500,000 likes in four months.

Spread

On June 9th, 2025, the X^[2] account @KaatokunArt posted a tweet with a side-by-side version image of a rough sketch and a detailed drawing of Princess Peach from Super Mario, gathering over 36,000 likes in three months. The post quoted a June 1st, 2025, repost of @growthbyvisuals' post.

On June 15th, X^[3] user @Tlauz_ani tweeted a video showing their animation process, gathering over 23,000 likes on a post captioned, "Just make it exist first. You can make it good later!!!" in two months.

On August 3rd, X^[4] user @mirrutatep tweeted, "Just make it exist first, you can make it good later," alongside a side-by-side comparison of a rough draft and final drawing of a cannoli. The post gathered over 30,000 likes in three weeks.

On August 19th, 2025, X user @ArthurMacwaters posted an image of SpaceX's Raptor engines, gathering over 24,000 likes on a post captioned, "this is unironically the right way to build a startup." X^[5] user @pli_cachete then quoted the post, writing, "What are counter examples to this? Cases where it’s actually quite important to do it well the first time." The post gathered over 120,000 likes in three days.

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