Do Either Of You Recognize This? / You Know Him?
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About
Do Either Of You Recognize This? or You Know Him? is an exploitable image macro using a scene from the cartoon Gravity Falls where the character Stanford shows Mabel and Dipper a symbol depicting Bill Cipher and asks them if they recognize it. The scene aired in 2015 and first became the subject of photoshops that year, becoming popularized on Reddit's /r/dankmemes board as a way to call out overused meme formats.
Origin
On September 7th, 2015, season 2 episode 15 of Gravity Falls aired on Disney XD. In one scene, Stanford shows Mabel and Dipper a scroll with a symbol resembling Bill Cipher on it. He asks, "Do either of you recognize this symbol?" Dipper answers, "Bill." Stanford says, "You know him?" and Dipper says, "Know him? He's been terrorizing us all summer!"[1]
The earliest known meme using screenshots of the scene was posted by Twitter[2] user @GravityWiki on September 21st, 2015. The meme replaces the word "symbol" with "man" and the image on the scroll with Alex Hirsch, Grunkle Stan's voice actor (shown below). The post gained over 520 likes in seven years.
Spread
On July 16th, 2018, Redditor 500moregullis posted a version of the meme to /r/dankmemes[3] referencing the prevalence of the Slaps Roof of Car meme at the time, suggesting there was too much of it on the subreddit, gaining over 13,200 upvotes in four years (shown below, left). On July 16th, 2020, Redditor SirRedRavxn posted a similar meme to /r/dankmemes[4] about the overuse of the "Wait, it's all Ohio?" meme, gaining over 21,700 upvotes in two years (shown below, right).
On August 10th, Redditor Gavin-Mac posted a similar meme to /r/dankmemes[5] about the Yes Chad meme, gaining over 35,000 upvotes in two years (shown below).
On June 14th, 2021, Facebook[6] and Instagram[7] meme page Texas Humor posted a version of the meme about how bad mosquitos are in Texas, gaining over 1,800 reactions and 900 shares on the former and 6,000 likes on the latter in a year (shown below).
On March 4th, 2022, Tumblr[8] userthisdarkhomeofghosts posted a version of the meme referencing the Live Slug Reaction, suggesting it was being overused on the site, gaining over 75,000 notes in three months (shown below).
Various Examples
Search Interest
External References
[1] Fandom (Gravity Falls) – episode transcript
[2] Twitter – GravityWiki
[3] Reddit – 500moregullis
[4] Reddit – SirRedRavxn
[6] Facebook – Texas Humor
[7] Instagram – Texas Humor
[8] Tumblr – thisdarkhomeofghosts
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