Insult Reflection | Know Your Meme

This submission is currently being researched & evaluated! You can help confirm this entry by contributing facts, media, and other evidence of notability and mutation. About Insult Deflection or Insult Reflection is a single-panel cartoon illustrating the effects one’s insults or other forms of verbal attacks directed at a disliked person can inadvertently have on their mutuals, depicting a stick figure shooting at another, who then deflects it into a third person. Spawned by a viral Tumblr post about bodyshaming, the cartoon has been used as an exploitable meme since June 2022. Origin Prior to May 25th, 2022, Tumblr user fluoresensitivearchived made a post arguing that no form of bodyshaming is acceptable. Tumblr user uxji then replied with a crude cartoon illustrating the way one’s harmful words directed at one person can affect people they care about (shown below, right). The exchange (shown below, left) gained over 84,000 likes and reblogs in three months. Spread In the following months, both the image and the exchange saw viral spread. For example, on July 19th, 2022, Twitter user @red5rainbow posted the image, with the post gaining over 210 retweets and 4,200 likes. On September 28th, Redditor clueless_docking then shared the post in…
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