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About

Tyler1 Looking Up to Mel Capperino-Garcia refers to a series of object-labeled image macros and photoshopped images of Twitch streamer Tyler1 standing next to Summoner Showcase host Mel Capperino-Garcia. Online, people have joked about how short he appears next to the host and made jokes about his height.

Origin

On October 28th, 2018, Twitch streamer Tyler1 participated in the "Rumble of the Rift" match at TwitchCon 2018, hosted by Mel Capperino-Garcia.^[1] Ahead the match, Capperino-Garcia interviewed the participants, asking Tyler1 about his height (shown below).

The earliest known image of the two together was posted on the /fit/ forum by an anonymous 4chan ^[2] user on November 15th, 2018 (shown below).

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That day, Capperino-Garcia tweeted ^[3] the image and a photoshopped version in which Tyler1 is made shorter. The tweet received more than 260 retweets and 1,800 likes in one week (shown below, left).

People responded to the post with photoshopped versions of the image (example below, center).

On November 11th, Redditor ^[4] Coacoabro posted an image of Capperino-Garcia and Tyler1 labeled "12 y/o girls" and "12 y/o boys," respectively. The post received more than 12,000 points (98% upvoted) and 180 comments in 24 hours (shown below, right).

Various Examples

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