Kid Mike Wazowski

About

Kid Mike Wazowski refers to the young Monsters Inc green one-eyed character Mike Wazowski as portrayed in the 2013 animated movie Monsters University. In November 2019, Redditors began using an image of small Mike Wazowski smiling contently as a reaction image and then began pairing that image and with a deep fried and chaotic image of Wazowski to compare the two.

Origin

On June 21st, 2013, Disney Pixar released Monsters University which features a young Mike Wazowski (shown below).

On November 9th, 2019, Redditor Memestagram uploaded an image of "baby Mike Wazowski" to r/wholesomememes^[1] but it has since been deleted. On November 10th, Redditor TheSoloAlpaca uploaded a comparison of deep fried Mike to baby mike to r/dankmemes^[2] and gained over 66,900 points (91% upvoted) in one day (shown below).

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On November 10th, Redditor BoxfullofBuns uploaded an image of small Mike Wazowski when referencing coloring on the kids menu to r/dankmemes^[3] (shown below, left). The image received over 11,600 points (97% upvoted) in a day. The next day, Redditor Lowgahn posted the comparison image labeled "My mom infront of my teacher at parent teacher interviews" versus "her on the car ride home" to r/dankmemes^[4]. The image gained over 25,900 points (98% upvoted) that day. That same day, Redditor George2110 posted the comparison image to r/memes^[5] and accumulated over 15,200 points (98% upvoted) that day.

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