Which Object Fits to This Hole

Submission 19,860

About

Which Object Fits to This Hole is a series of webcomic exploitables, which shows a cockatoo practicing shape recognition. In the final panel, the person holding up the shapes raises a heart and users photoshop things they admire to say that object fills the hole in their heart.

Origin

On November 10th, 2017, the webcomic Einstein's Mama posted on Facebook ^[1] a six-panel installment of a person testing shape recognition with a cockatoo. Throughout the comic, the cockatoo puts the correct shape in the corresponding hole, until the last two panels, when the person holds up a heart and the cockatoo puts itself in the hole. The post (shown below) received more than 3,600 reactions and 330 shares in one month.

Spread

The following day, League of Legends ^[2] message board user Laughing Fish posted a League of Legends-inspired variation in the thread "Kleptomancy has brought back my true love." The post (shown below, left) received more than 100 upvotes in one month.

That day, an anonmyous 9GAG user^[3] posted a variation with the Steam logo over the cockatoo. The post (shown below, center) received more than 10,900 upvotes in one month.

On November 30th, the Facebook^[4] account memesagainstfascism3 posted a variation in which the cockatoo places a hammer and sickle on the heart. The post (shown below, right) received more than 80 reactions in two weeks.