Thick Book vs. Thin Book

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About

Thick Book vs. Thin Book or Big Book vs. Small Book refers to a comparison meme format based on an image of a thick book and a thin book shown side by side. The format gained moderate popularity on Reddit in June 2019.

Origin

On June 17th, 2019, Redditor CosmowYoung posted an image of a thick book and a thin book shown side by side captioned "Greek mythology" and "Greek mythology without Zeus' sex life" to /r/memes and /r/me_irl subreddits (shown below).^[1]^[2] The posts gained over 74,100 and 27,900 upvotes in two days, respectively.

Spread

In the following hours, the image was reposted in numerous subreddits, including popular posts in /r/dankmemes^[3] and /r/HistoryMemes.^[4]

In the following days, memes based on the image appeared in a variety of subreddits, including notable posts in /r/Animemes, ^[5] /r/PewdiepieSubmissions ^[6] and /r/HistoryMemes.^[7] In some examples, books of similar size were compared.