Two Types of Online People
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The text 'dQw4w9WgXcQ' appears at the bottom of both panels, the unique URL suffix of the classic Rickroll YouTube video
Overview
This is a two-panel comparison meme illustrating the joke of two distinct types of internet users. The left panel features the normal, brightly lit, cheerful animated character Mr. Incredible (Bob Parr) from Pixar's The Incredibles, representing casual online users. The right panel shows the distorted, unsettling uncanny grayscale version of Mr. Incredible from the popular 'Mr. Incredible Becoming Uncanny' meme, representing extremely online users. Both panels have the text string 'dQw4w9WgXcQ' at the bottom, which is the unique suffix of the classic YouTube Rickroll link for Rick Astley's 'Never Gonna Give You Up'. The joke is that casual users will not recognize the string, while extremely online users will immediately identify it as a Rickroll link, prompting the uncanny reaction.
Origin notes
This meme is an iteration of the widely viral 'Mr. Incredible Becoming Uncanny' format that first gained popularity on Reddit, TikTok, and Twitter/X starting in 2021, adapted from characters owned by Pixar Animation Studios. This specific version was sourced from the RSS feed of the Reddit r/Meme subreddit, with the original post title 'Two types of online people', using the iconic Rickroll link suffix as the punchline to comment on differing levels of internet meme literacy.