Select All Squares

Submission 41,919

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About

Select All Squares is a series of images mocking Google's CAPTCHA software which instructs users to "select all squares" that match a certain label.

Origin

On October 1st, 2015, a post about the "images with street signs" CAPTCHA was posted to Stackexchange,^[1] claiming they were "impossible to solve."

Spread

On June 21st, 2016, the Savage memes for savage teens Facebook^[3] page posted a photograph of Caitlyn Jenner embracing her daughter Kendall Jenner with the instructions to "select all square with females" (shown below, left). On July 25th, Redditor staplednipples submitted a photograph of an American flag with the caption "Select all squares with street signs" to /r/facepalm^[2] (shown below, right).

On August 15th, Redditor Akes. On September 4th, the 4chong page that actually posts stuff from halfchan^[4] Facebook page featured a picture of an envelope with instructions to "Select all squares with street signs" (shown below, left). On September 25th, FunnyJunk^[7] user infinitereaper submitted a street sign CAPTCHA titled "well fuck you too" (shown below, right).

On February 14th, 2017, Twitter user @lachrob^[5] tweeted at "Google":, jokingly asking them what kind of artificial intelligence he was helping them "train" (shown below, left).^[5] In response, Twitter user @xpirabit replied with a photoshop of the character Sarah Connor from the 1991 science fiction film Terminator 2: Judgment Day (shown below, right).^[6]