Pentagon Hexagon Octagon

About

Pentagon Hexagon Octagon is an exploitable series featuring three shapes and one image of something with the suffix "-gon."

Origin

The earliest known usage of the meme was posted on the website FunnyJunk ^[1] by user mudkipfucker on March 7th, 2016. The image featured the three shapes and a picture of the state of Oregon. The post received more than 268 upvotes in two and a half years.

Spread

The following year, on April 1st, 2017, Redditor ^[2] sauce681 posted the "Oregon" image on the /r/dataisbeautiful subreddit, where it received more than 33,000 points (84% upvoted) and 1,300 comments. Months later, on July 22nd, Redditor^[3] wasd_man posted the image in the /r/funny subreddit, where it received more than 33,000 points (79% upvoted) and 1,000 comments in one year.

On February 19th, 2018, Facebook ^[4] group Pokémon Memes posted an image replacing "Oregon" with the Pokémon "Porygon." The post received more than 1,500 reactions, 100 comments and 330 shares in less than two years (shown below, left).

Months later, On October 21st, Redditor^[5] WussPoppinJimbo529 posted a version that references the song 'Take On Me' by A-Ha. The post received more than 6,700 points (97% upvoted) and 50 comments in 24 hours (shown below, center).

Over the next 24 hours, people posted more variation of the meme in the /r/dankmemes subreddit (example below, right).

Various Examples