Man Sad, Man Goes Outside, Man Sees Excavator, Man Happy

About

Man Sad, Man Goes Outside, Man Sees Excavator, Man Happy, refers to an exploitable Wojak greentext image macro meme format in which a doomer Wojak is depicted leaving the house and seeing an excavator, changing his emotional state from sad to happy. The meme was originally posted to 9GAG in mid-September 2024 and garnered viral spread that month, inspiring several variants replacing the excavator with another subject.

Origin

On September 14th, 2024, 9GAG^[1] user pikachuu_11 posted a Wojak comic that garnered over 3,800 upvotes in two weeks. The meme begins with the text ">man sad" next to a doomer, followed by ">goes outside" next to a walking "virgin": Wojak. Underneath, the text, ">Man sees excavator" is shown next to a pointing "Soyjak.": Finally, a smiling Soyjak is shown next to the text ">Man happy."

Spread

The meme garnered viral spread in September 2024, also inspiring edits.

On September 16th, 2024, it was reposted to /r/me_irl,^[2] garnering over 2,300 upvotes in two weeks. On september 17th, Instagram^[3] user sarcastic_us posted a differently formatted meme based on the Wojak meme that gained over 68,000 likes in two weeks.

On September 19th, Instagram ^[4] user idioticnation posted an edit of the meme about going to hang out with friends, garnering over 950 likes in around 10 days. On September 29th, the original meme was reposted to /r/peterexplainsthejoke,^[5] garnering over 15,000 upvotes in a day.

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