Acceleration Yes

About

Acceleration Yes is a reaction image featuring meme man running captioned "Acceleration Yes." The meme is similar to Angery in that it is commonly paired with captions where a person does something clumsy or silly.

Origin

On July 2nd, 2019, Redditor mememan___ posted the image with the caption "When the deodorant says 48 hours but you drink it in 8 minutes" in /r/memes,^[1] gaining over 35,000 points.

Spread

Over the following month, the joke spread across various subreddits. On July 9th, user Siemturbo posted an example captioned "When you fall down the stairs" in /r/memes^[2] (shown below, left). User Banapple101 posted an edit of the original image in /r/dankmemes^[3] on July 4th (shown below, right).

The format began trending again amid the rise of Stonks edits in late 2019 and early 2020. On December 26th, 2019, Redditor st-ar_plat-inum posted an example in /r/dankmemes^[4] that gained over 33,000 points (shown below, left). On January 7th, 2020, user Dr_Killer611 posted an example in /r/memes^[5] that gained over 10,000 points (shown below, right)

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