Shell shocked meme

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In the image, a male soldier stares straight at the viewer, resembling the trauma of war. In memes, the image has a far less intense connotation. However, the message is still the same. It's mostly used to portray shock, awe and terror. So, where did the thousand-yard stare meme come from? What's the backstory behind the image and why do people think it's funny? Let's explain. The "thousand-yard stare" is a term that describes the dissociated and shell-shocked look of soldiers and veterans. The stare is akin to post-traumatic stress disorder PTSD.

Shell shocked meme

The painting spawned the phrase "thousand-yard stare" to describe the dissociated and shell-shocked look of soldiers and veterans. The image was used in memes to portray traumatization, predominantly in the early s, gaining redraws and status as an exploitable akin to other "staring" memes like Staring Animals , the Sigma Stare and the Lightskin Stare. It was also used in Schizoposting to portray fear. Currently, the first discovered memetic usage of The 2, Yard Stare was a re-edit that surfaced on Reddit in The comment then led to a since-deleted Redditor [5] commenting "The horror," and linking a Photoshop that edited Marvin into Lea's painting shown below. In , the painting started to surface on 4chan. The image gained more viral and mainstream usage in late and early For instance, on November 28th, , the Kanye West lyrics posted randomly Facebook [10] page posted the image with a caption reading, "When that one song you love more than yourself reaches tiktok ," gaining roughly 18, reactions in six months shown below, left. On Twitter , the image became a notable reaction image.

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