After all, if every scientific diagram made for a good shitpost, it wouldn’t be long until every such diagram ever was reposted as a meme. Still, that argument only gets you so far.
Science Diagrams that Look Like Shitposts January 22, 2020 Lauren Boots, an admin of the “ Science Diagrams That Look Like Shitposts ” Facebook group, says the best science diagram-turned-shitpost is one that’s so absurd out-of-context, it makes you think, How on earth is this scientific? Science Diagrams that Look Like Shitposts January 20, 2020 It’s both painstakingly serious and utterly absurd at the same time. “But take the diagrams out of their source material and that’s all flipped on its head,” Caldwell continues. The latest viral science diagrams, on other hand, have much to do with the arrival “shitposting.” That is, as Caldwell puts it, a specific type of trolling “where you straddle the line of appearing earnest, but with a tinge of absurdity.”īasically, out-of-context scientific diagrams achieve the shitposter’s ultimate goal, because much like wikiHow shitposting, these images are derived from places of authority, where they’re dealing with serious subject matter in a serious fashion. Science diagrams have been going viral since the days of Advice Animals, but they were rare since their shareability largely had to do with what jokes could be added around the image. Science Diagrams that Look Like Shitposts January 17, 2020Īccording to Don Caldwell, editor in chief of Know Your Meme, this isn’t necessarily all that new. “I especially love the ‘no fear’ duck, that’s why it’s my pinned post.” “The shitpost diagrams are really funny,” he explains, while admitting he has no idea why they’re so funny. Both were created earlier this month, and both are skyrocketing in popularity. Meanwhile, the Facebook group from which he migrated boasts 200,000 members. Yet since creating a Twitter account dedicated to “ science diagrams that look like shitposts ,” the high school sophomore wields influence over 276,000 people. He hasn’t, though, published any papers on theoretical physics or offered a novel approach to combat climate change - in fact, he has little interest in science at all. But it’s taken Luke, a 15-year-old in Colorado, a month. On January 15th, the Twitter page posted the its first image, an image from an unknown book comparing two men (shown below, right), with the post gaining over 2,200 retweets and 8,600 likes in nine months (shown below, right).It often takes decades of groundbreaking research to become renowned in a scientific field. On January 11th, the Facebook page made the first post, "The Crab Cycle," gaining over 470 reactions in nine months (shown below, left). On January 11th and 15th, 2020, Facebook group and Twitter account Science Diagrams That Look Like Shitposts were created.
The post received over 234,800 likes and reblogs in four years, prompting users to post similar diagrams that resembled memes on social media in the following years. On June 30th, 2016, Tumblr user ajani posted an diagram from an unknown biology textbook, writing "One of my favorite things about biology is that there are so many diagrams like this that look like shitposts if you remove any and all context from them" (post and viral reply shown below). Science Diagrams That Look Like Shitposts refers to a novelty Facebook and Twitter page that collects diagrams and illustrations from student textbooks and scientific publications that, when looked at without context, can be interpreted as shitposts. Science, diagram, illustration, shitpost, novelty page
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