Rick Rips the Wallpaper

About

Rick Rips the Wallpaper is a presentation edit exploitable image of Rick from Rick and Morty ripping down wallpaper to reveal a message. The image was taken from Adult Swim's January 2020 Pringles commercial posted to YouTube.

Origin

On January 28th, 2020, Adult Swim uploaded "Rick and Morty x Pringles – 2020 Big Game Commercial [AD]" to YouTube in which Rick tears down the wallpaper to reveal the Pringles logo (shown below). The video gained over 1.2 million views and 70,000 likes in two days.

That day, YouTube commentator Ω SmashCrafter Ω commented "I sense a meme template with rick pointing to the pringles logo in the wall" which received over 380 upvotes). On January 29th, Redditor ode2war uploaded the format to r/rickandmorty^[1] (shown below). The image garnered over 1,000 likes (98% upvoted) in a day.

Spread

On January 29th, 2020, Redditor MoldyandToasty posted an edit in reply to ode2war's post on r/rickandmorty^[1] (shown below). The image garnered 49 points.

On January 30th, Redditor FoodToGo69 posted the format to r/dankmemes^[2] including the text "sexism towards men is still sexism" on the wall (shown below, left). The post received over 26,200 points (92% upvoted) in a day. That day Reddiotr smasher_23 uploaded another iteration to r/memes with the text "you've never watched a whole movie because you blinked" (shown below, right). The post gained 5,300 points (95% upvoted) in a day.

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