The origin appeared to be an innocent enough Twitter post. Score! Finally, after fiddling with the filters a bit more, I ended up narrowing down the earliest known mention of the picture. Next, I changed the range to the sequel's time period, and this time I got a few hits.
Minions me me me movie#
And trace it back to its origin I did.Īfter doing a reverse image search, I changed the date range to the time when the first movie came out, around May to June 2009, which garnered zero results. Finally! I had what could very well be the terrible Minion meme that started it all! Now it was just a matter of doing some Google-fu to trace it back to its origin. In addition to that, no matter what search terms I tried, I could not find any evidence of the familiar "shitty inspirational quote" Minion meme before this one. This quote did not exist, as far as I could see, before 2012, and searching for the creator of the quote did not tie them to Minions in any way, shape, or form. If somebody was to blame for fartin' up my newsfeed, it wasn't the studios. Not only did I not find a single meme-type image for the year 2013 but there were barely any pictures with words on them on the entire Facebook timeline! Their official Twitter page was the same deal: 221 photos and videos, not one Minion meme. So I went to the official Facebook page for Despicable Me and scrolled all the way through their section for 2013, getting my eyes ready for all the rolling they were about to do. Because Universal is owned by Comcast, I handsomely deduced the studios must have started some kind of marketing campaign dedicated to making memes out of those lovable yellow shitballs. Early on in my research, I found an article that discussed how Comcast is making fucking bank for every Minion that gets shared. This is understandable behavior, as the second movie, and the marketing campaign that accompanied, focused mainly on the Minions. It's also the year The Lone Ranger came out, and we can't rule out that connection. It turns out, even though Despicable Me came out in 2010, the search term "Minion meme" did not get popular until July of 2013 when Despicable Me 2 came out. How the hell would I track down the first one, the patient zero? I started with Google Trends so I could get an idea of how far back I should be looking. But for every jerk that takes a Sex And The City quote and slaps it onto a badly JPEG'd Minion picture, there are upload sites grinding these fucking things out by the hundreds all the time. Anyone with MS Paint and a shitty sense of humor can make a Minion meme. why are they? I was determined to pin this whole epidemic on a single source, which was not an easy task. I think that's what infuriates me the most about this whole thing: Why are Minions? Just.
Minions me me me cracked#
This is by far the most frustrating article I've ever begged Cracked to let me write.ĭo people realize that you can just post pictures of words by themselves? Hell, you don't even need to have a picture behind text for folks to be able to read it, much less a picture of a Minion. Or whatever the fuck this is supposed to be:
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