About

Kim Jong-un Watching Television is a series of photoshopped images of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un celebrating in front of a television monitor.

Origin

On November 30th, 2017, North Korea's Central News Agency^[1] released photographs of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un observing an intercontinental ballisitic missile test and celebrating its success. One of the pictures (shown below), sees Kim Jong Un holding a clenched fist, smiling and looking at a monitor.

Spread

That day, Redditor ^[2] Kiplay_Kek posted the picture in the /r/photoshopbattles subreddit. The post received more than 12,000 points (93% upvoted) and 575 comments in five days.

People responded to the post with various images photoshopped onto the television that Kim Jong Un is looking at (examples below).

On December 4th, Redditor^[3] idiotj posted in the /r/MemeEconomy subreddit a photoshop of Kim Jong Un looking at U.S. President Donald Trump's tennis photos. The post (shown below) received more than 24,000 points (88% upvoted) and 175 comments in 24 hours.

Several hours later, Redditor Chaindriver posted about the photoshops. The second post received more than 6,100 points (97% upvoted) and 20 comments in less than 12 hours.

Various Examples

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