Top 500 Faces

Submission 9,981

About

Top 500 Faces is a photoshop meme featuring parodies of a Reddit post containing the faces of the top 500 golfers merged into one using image processing software.

Origin

On October 3rd, 2017, Redditor osmutiar submitted a post titled "Combined faces of top 500 professional gofers [OC]" to the /r/dataisbeautiful^[1] subreddit, where it gathered upwards of 49,100 points (85% upvoted) and 2,500 comments within 48 hours (shown below).

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That same day, Redditor BongRips4Jesus posted a photoshopped picture of Kanye West titled "Combined faces of top 500 musical artists of all time" to /r/Kanye,^[4] where it garnered upwards of 12,700 points (69% upvoted) and 170 comments over the next two days (shown below).

On October 4th, Redditor airforcefalco submitted a photograph of "Hillary Clinton": titled "Combined the Face of the Top 500 Most Corrupt Politicians in the USA" to /r/The_Donald.^[2] Within 24 hours, the post had a score of 0 points (49% upvoted) and 4,600 comments. The same day, Redditor gribbster-2356 uploaded a photograph of Always Sunny in Philadelphia actress Kaitlin Olson titled "Combined faces of 500 species of birds" to the /r/IASIP^[5] subreddit, where it received more than 44,600 points (81% upvoted) and 400 comments over the next day (shown below, right).

Also on October 4th, Redditor whentheloaddrops posted a photograph of Emperor Palpatine titled "Combined faces of 500 members of the Senate" to /r/PrequelMemes,^[6] where it garnered upwards of 30,600 points (90% upvoted) and 230 comments over the next 24 hours. On October 5th, The Daily Dot^[3] published an article about the meme, highlighting various notable parody examples.