Perplexed Bill Nye

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About

Perplexed Bill Nye is a photoshop meme featuring a cutout image of Bill Nye walking down a street while holding a cigarette, which is often photoshopped on to various action film and television posters.

Origin

On October 17th, 2015, National Geographic^[1] published a photograph of Bill Nye, taken by photographer Chris Cassel, walking down the middle of a road while smoking a cigarette (shown below). The picture was meant to illustrate Nye’s feelings of despair when confronted with evidence about climate change.

"source":http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/explorer/galleries/the-five-stages-of-climate-change-grief/at/downward-spiral-2100672/

Spread

On November 4th, Redditor avemae10 posted the photograph to the /r/pics^[2] subreddit, where it gained over 5,000 votes (90% upvotes) and 1,200 comments in five days. The same day, Redditor Chipper_chap submitted the picture in a post titled "Perplexed Bill Nye" to the /r/photoshopbattles^[3] subreddit, where several users posted photoshopped images of Nye in scenes from various films and television shows (shown below).

On November 5th, a compilation of images from the /r/photoshopbattles submitted to 9gag,^[4] where it gathered upwards of 11,800 points and 230 comments. The following day, UpRoxx^[5] published an article about the Bill Nye photoshops. The same day, Redditor phc_me submitted a post asking about the Bill Nye photoshopped movie posters to the /r/OutOfTheLoop^[7] subreddit.