Kardashian-West Halloween Family Photo

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About

The Kardashian-West Family Halloween Photo refers to an image macro series based on an Instagram post made by Kim Kardashian-West. The image features the Kardashian's family, including husband Kanye West and her children dressed as characters from the animated television series The Flintsones. Many of the memes focused on Kanye West's Dino costume, which fans refer to as the character "Yino".

Origin

On November 1st, 2019, Kardashian posted the photograph,^[1] which featured Kanye West dressed as Dino the dinosaur. She wrote, "This family pic was such a challenge because Chicago was so scared of Dino! LOL We tried to explain and show her that it was just daddy but she didn’t get the concept yet! So shout out to the photographer for editing her in & making our family Flintstones dreams come true!" The post received more than 6.8 million views in three days (shown below).

Spread

Following the post, people began commenting on the photograph. For example, Twitter ^[2] user @trashleywrong tweeted a screencapture of their daughter Chicago as Pebbles, commenting on the image editing of the photo. They wrote, "sis those feet…you gotta hire a new editor." The post received more than 4,000 likes and 180 retweets in three days (shown below, left).

The following day, Twitter^[3] user @kyledoesmusic paired the photograph with a screen capture of a tweet^[4] by Kanye West that reads, "Halloween is the only day you're not in a costume." The post received more than 285,000 likes and 52,000 retweets in two days (shown below, center).

Some began editing the image into different memes and images, referring to Kanye West's Dino costume as "Yino." For example, Redditor ^[5] Tmhndy added references to the image of Dino into West's various album releases. The post received more than 10,000 points (96% upvoted) and 145 comments (shown below, right).

Several media outlets reported on the costume and online reactions to the photograph, including People,^[6] TMZ,^[7] CNN,^[8] The Daily Dot ^[9] and more.