About

No Thanks is a stock photo reaction image in which a man holds his hands out in front of his hands with a disapproving look on his face.

Origin

The source of the image comes from a stock photo by DRB Images entitled "Irritated Man With Hands Out In Stop Gestures," which is currently featured on iStockPhoto.com.^[1] While the iStockPhoto page notes the upload date as October 3rd, 2013, the earliest known instance of the photo appearing online was on November 8th, 2012. In a Reddit ^[2] thread "Ever since I was a kid, my toenails have grown like this. It's extremely painful." Redditor yougotdied posted the picture in response to pictures of the toenails (shown below).

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Four days later, on November 12th, 2012, the picture was posted by an anonymous 4chan ^[3] user on the /cgl/ board. They included a comment with the picture (shown below), "Oh my god she's awful. She's the one who cosplayed Angry Birds too."

On December 16th, 2016, the picture was added to the website Meme Generator, where users could add text to the picture and create different captions (examples below).

Two weeks later, on December 27th, 2016, Instagram ^[5] user hoodshiet shared an image macro of the picture with the caption, "When you ask her to send you memes but she sends you nudes instead." The post (shown below) received more than 18,000 likes in less than one year.

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