About

Monopoly Man's "NO" refers to an image of the Monopoly Man stretching his hand over letters N and O taken from a cover of a Monopoly board game. Since April 2017, the picture has been circulated online as a reaction image and an image macro expressing direct refusal.

Origin

On April 10th, 2017, an anonymous 4chan^[1] /b/ user posted the earliest known image of character Rich Uncle Pennybags, commonly known as Monopoly Man, stretching his hand for a handshake over letters N and O of the word "Monopoly". The image was taken from the cover of an unidentified edition of the board game and was posted as a reaction image to a vore comic.

On April 11th, 2017, Twitter user @Ramskerr^[2] created an Expand Dong edit of the image (shown below, left). The post gained over 70 retweets in two years, while the repost of the edit by Redditor^[3] zero-polite gained 4,200 upvotes in the same period. Before April 12th, 2017, an unknown user paired the "No" macro with the caption "Coworker: wanna do something after work?" (shown below, right). On April 13th, 2017, an Instagram post containing the image was scraped by Me.me^[4][5].

Spread

Following the initial posts, both the original image and it's "Boi" version were circulated as image macros on Instagram, Reddit and other platforms. Before April 13th, 2017, a now-deleted Instagram^[6][7] user Dabmoms posted a version of the meme which gained over 18,800 likes.

On May 15th, an unknown Reddit^[8] user reposted the meme paired with the "coworker" caption to /r/meirl subreddit, where it gained over 30,300 upvotes in six months.

In the following years, the image macro saw moderate use across Reddit and other platforms.

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