Open the Gate!

About

Open the Gate! is an exploitable cartoon series based on a webcomic by Belgian cartoonist Jeroom. Most derivative instances illustrate comedic situations in which a sudden change of heart occurs due to an unforeseen development, while a few others take more of a meta approach by focusing on the relationship between the guards featured in the comic.

Origin

The original comic, which features several guards discussing an approaching transgender woman, was published by Jeroom on February 27th, 2013. The comic was translated into English and posted onto a Facebook page for translated Jeroom comics the next day.^[1]

Spread

The day the original comic was posted, an unofficial translation was posted onto /r/funny, where it gained over 1,000 upvotes.^[3] Some time afterward, said unofficial translation was posted onto 4chan, where users created various edits of it. An Imgur gallery of these edits was posted to the subreddit /r/4chan.^[2]

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