Please Photoshop Away the Kid

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About

Please Photoshop Away the Kid refers to a compilation of images ostensibly taken from a Photoshop request thread featuring a photograph of a couple kissing at the beach with a child playing in the background.

Origin

The exact origin of the original photograph is unclear. On August 18th, 2015, Imgur^[2] user damnfiddles a gallery of photoshopped variations of a picture featuring a couple kissing at the beach with a child playing with a volleyball in the background titled "Please photoshop away the kid" to the /r/funny (shown below, left). In the comments section, damn fiddles provided a link to the photograph hosted on the domain repstatic.ic, citing it as "the original pic."

Spread

Redditor Hanez submitted the gallery to /r/funny,^[1] gaining over 6,600 votes (93% upvoted) and 170 comments in 24 hours. Additionally, many Redditors replied with new altered versions of the photo (shown below).

The same day, FunnyJunk^[3] user christinap posted a vertical strip of notable examples. In the coming days, several Internet humor sites highlighted examples of the photoshop meme, including The Chive,^[4] Twisted Sifter^[6] and CollegeHumor.^[5]