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Now I understand... (feddit.org)

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[-] idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 37 points 3 weeks ago

Wow, there is a Malcolm version of this meme!

[-] Kennystillalive@feddit.org 43 points 3 weeks ago

Here the template.

[-] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 2 points 3 weeks ago

It should have them going in opposite directions

[-] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, but it’s shot from the driver’s point of view. If one panel was flipped they’d be going in the same direction.

[-] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It can still be from the drivers point of view. This just makes more sense to me...

[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

No, this doesn't work for me. I imagine myself standing in the middle of the road where the camera would be. If I look left and right and see these two cars, it means they're going in the same direction.

[-] chetradley@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago

[-] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 1 points 3 weeks ago

Exactly. I prefer yours I think

[-] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

It was the OG version

[-] idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

As I can find the other similar template with Page aired in 2020, and was memed instantly:

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/vanya-and-five-drive-by-each-other

The oldest meme using this template I can find is from 2021, even though the episode aired in 2005. So as a meme this is the newer.

[-] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I lived through the ancient times, I was there, the MITM one came well before.

I seem to recall a gif version too, with Malcolm and his mom reacting in split screen

[-] idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Checked it with multiple reverse image search engines, and I can't find it anywhere before 2021. It was posted that time related to the other drive-by meme, I guess someone saw the new meme, and remembered Malcolm had a very similar scene 15 year earlier, searched the episode and made the screenshot.

2005 was before these kind of labeled reaction memes even existed. Know Your Meme has 3 Malcolm memes documented, all of them started to spread more than a decade after they aired: