Michael Buble Doesn't Know How to Eat Corn on the Cob

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Michael Bublé Doesn't Know How to Eat Corn on the Cob is a photoshop meme based on a picture of singer-songerwriter Michael Bublé inserting a corn on the cob longways into his mouth. The photo was widely mocked online, with many asserting that Buble did not know how to correctly eat cooked ears of corn.

Origin

On April 13th, 2016, the online tabloid The Sun^[1] published a Splash News photograph of Buble eating the end of a corn on the cob while at the Disneyland theme park in Anaheim, California (shown below). The same day, the entertainment news blog Digital Spy^[4] highlighted the photo in an article titled "Cobsucker Michael Bublé just doesn't know how to eat corn on the cob."

Spread

On April 14th, Redditor extraordinary15 submitted the photo to the /r/photoshopbattles^[2] subreddit, where it gained over 5,200 votes (90% upvoted) and 300 comments, many of which featured photoshopped variations of the photo (shown below).

On April 15th, Tech Crunch reporter Greg Kumparak posted a tweet^[3] mocking Buble for not knowing "how to eat corn" (shown below). In 48 hours, the tweet gained over 3,400 likes and 2,900 retweets (shown below, left). Meanwhile, Buble tweeted^[13] the photo and referred to the online reaction as "vegetable harassment" (shown below, right).

In the coming days, several news sites published articles about the photoshop meme, including BuzzFeed,^[5] US Weekly,^[6] Eater,^[7] The Huffington Post,^[8] Metro,^[9] Elite Daily,^[10] Mashable^[11] and ET Online.^[12]