btn_scrollLeft
btn_scrollRight

Your/Our

Your/Our

Meme
Part of a series on Communism
Status:
submission
Origin: Reddit
Year: 2017
Type: Image Macro

Added 3 years ago by Matt.

Updated 4 months ago by Y F.

Read Edit History
ADVERTISEMENT

About

Your/Our refers to a series of four-panel image macros that jokes about the singular possessive pronouns in company names, such as YouTube and MySpace, by juxtaposing them against angry-looking photographs of historical figures whose political interests lie in community rather than selfish needs. The punchline of the joke comes in the bottom two panels, where a picture of the same figure smiling is shown next to the company's name changed from a singular possessive pronoun (your) to a plural possessive pronoun (our). Similar to Drakeposting.

ADVERTISEMENT
Top entries this week

Origin

On September 28th, 2017, Redditor [1] willemHE posted a four-panel image macro on the /r/DankMemes subreddit. The picture features communist leader Josef Stalin next to the logo for YouTube on top, and Joseph Stalin smiling next to a photoshopped version of the YouTube logo, now reading "OurTube." The joke being that communism focuses on the collective rather than the individual, so YouTube would irritate Stalin, who would prefer the more communal "OurTube." The post (shown below) received more than 4,600 points (96% upvoted) and 30 comments in 24 hours.



ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT

Spread

Shortly after posting to /r/DankMemes, Redditor Faoneus posted the meme on the /r/MemeEconomy subreddit. Within 24 hours, the post received more than 200 points (95% upvoted).

Over the next 24 hours, Redditors continued to post variations of the meme. Occasionally, the bottom quadrants of the image would not change the name of the company to something involving community, but rather make a pun about the pronunciation, i.e. "my" and "mao," (shown below, center) in reference to Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong, and "mine" and "mein" (shown below, right) in reference to Adolf Hitler, Nazi leader and author of Mein Kampf.



ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT

Various Examples




Search Interest

Not Available

ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT

External References

Latest Editorial And News
ADVERTISEMENT

Recent Videos

There are no videos currently available.

Recent Images (28)

ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT

Tags

Entry Editors (3)

Request Editorship

Secretary of Memes

Y

Digital Archaeologist & Treasurer & Gallery Housekeeper

Wolf of Meme Street

Comments

ADVERTISEMENT

The latest from KYM

Editorial

The national gas "shortage" is still underway after a hacking incident, so here are 15 memes about it while you wait in line for the gas pump.

May 13th, 2021 10:31 AM
Event

In 2009, Gene Simmons' son sure appeared to rip off 'Bleach' in the biggest comics scandal of the year.

May 12th, 2021 04:41 PM
icon_video-2x
Video

It just keeps on giving.

May 13th, 2021 09:12 AM
Photo
Meme

It's the face of Twitch employee Ben Swartz reacting to a devastating 'Smash' loss.

May 12th, 2021 03:08 PM
ADVERTISEMENT
See more