Techno Interests Me

Submission 21,451

About

"Techno Interests Me" is a memorable quote uttered by Finnish DJ Antii Salonen while being photographed by photographer Liisa Jokinen in Helsinki, Finland. After the photograph was posted online in late 2011, it subsequently circulated as an in-joke among electronic music enthusiasts on various communities online.

Origin

On October 26th, 2011, Jokinen posted a picture of Salonen wearing all black on the photography website Hel-Looks.^[5] In the sidebar of the page, the quote "Techno interests me" was placed directly under Salonen's name (shown below).

Spread

On October 30th, the Hel-looks Tumblr^[4] blog reposted the photograph. On January 25th, 2012, Redditor patrickgun posted the photograph page on the /r/electronicmusic^[6] subreddit. On February 16th, 2015, a "I Wish I Was At Home" comic featuring a parody of the Salonen photograph was submitted to the /r/Techno^[1] subreddit (shown below).

On July 11th, 2014, a Matrix Morpheus image macro with the caption "What if I told you / techno interests me" was created on Meme Generator^[7] (shown below, left). In November, an OKCupid^[8] account named antti25 was created, which featured the photograph of Salonen along with various references to techno music in the profile sections (shown below, right).

In March 2015, a Facebook^[2] page for an event titled "Techno Interests Me" in Helsinki, Finland was launched. On May 9th, 2016, the Vice music site Thump^[3] published an interview with Salonen, who discussed his taste in music and revealed that he found the meme "very funny."