Minecraft Armor Parodies

About

Minecraft Armor Parodies refer to a series of images in which photographs of individuals are photoshopped with the armor interface from video game Minecraft. Starting in March 2019, the trend gained significant popularity on Reddit.

Origin

On February 18th, 2010, armor was added to video game Minecraft in an update.^[1] The armor items could be equipped in four designated inventory slots, including slots for helmet, chestplate, leggings and boots.

On February 28th, 2019, Redditor^[2] jjohn7676 posted a photograph of a person in an iridescent jacket to /r/photoshopbattles subreddit. The post gained over 57,400 upvotes in four days. On March 1st, Redditor^[3] noutongxiong made a post to /r/dankmemes in which they photoshopped Minecraft user interface showing full Diamond set equipped into the image. The post received over 50,000 upvotes in the same period.

Spread

In the following days, multiple posts utilizing the format were posted to /r/dankmemes and other subreddits. For example, on March 1st, Redditor^[4] yeet64 made a post which gained over 15,200 upvotes in four days. Another post by Redditor^[5] TheWolfRevenge received over 28,000 upvotes in three days.

In some examples, items which can not normally be equipped in the armor slots or do not exist in Minecraft were photoshopped (examples shown below).^[6][7]

Various Examples

Search Interest

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