You Can Radially Blur Any Image and It'll Be Funny

About

"You Can Radially Blur Any Image and It'll Be Funny" refers to a viral tweet by user @iodbcOfficial in which they made the above statement and posted a radially blurred image of a hot glue gun. The tweet spawned multiple replies in which users applied the radial blur effect to pictures of everyday objects. Additionally, the image of the blurred glue gun has been circulated as an exploitable.

Origin

On March 2nd, 2019, Twitter^[1] user @iodbcOfficial posted a tweet in which they argued that any image could be made funny by applying the radial blur effect to it in Photoshop or other image editors. The post also contained a radially blurred image of a hot glue gun. The tweet gained over 6,500 retweets and 23,400 likes in three days.

Spread

In replies to the tweet, multiple users posted radially blurred images of everyday objects.^[2][3]

On March 4th, 2019, VICE posted a compilation of images from the Twitter thread,^[4] with the entire text of the article consisting of the statement "you can radially blur any image and it'll be funny" repeating multiple times.

On the same day, Redditor^[5] NotASubaru posted a screenshot of the tweet to /r/me_irl subreddit where it gained over 12,400 upvotes in one day. Another post^[6] of the cropped tweet to /r/dankmemes subreddit gained over 58,300 upvotes in the same period.

Following the initial Reddit posts, the image of the hot glue gun has seen use as an exploitable in /r/dankmemes subreddit. For example, a post by Redditor EatLaysEveryDay utilizing the image gained over 12,200 upvotes in eight hours.

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