About
“X all the Y”, sometimes known as “X all the things”, is a snowclone and exploitable cartoon used to make a hyperbolic statement about performing an action. The person in the original comic panel is often manipulated to appear as a different character. (See also: fsjal)
Origin
The blog Hyperbole and a Half[1] published a comic titled “This is Why I’ll Never be an Adult” by artist Allie Brosh on June 17th, 2010. The comic describes the author’s frustration with her inability to maintain a consistent enthusiasm for her daily responsibilities. The following two panels were part of the comic:
Derivatives often use one of these two images.
Spread
A Canvas[2] thread that featured remixed images “clean all the things?” panel was created on April 28th, 2011. It was posted to the Canvas blog[3] on May 2nd, 2011.
A Reddit thread posted on June 23rd titled “Every afternoon on NPR”[4] had a derivative that parodied the radio show “All Things Considered”, and reached the front paged receiving 6,299 up votes. On June 25th a derivative was posted titled “How I feel whenever I play a Lego anything videogame”[5] to Reddit’s rage comic f7u12 subreddit, and received 95 up votes. On June 27th, a derivative was posted title “Whenever I build a campfire”[6] that received 451 up votes.
The /r/allthethings subreddit was created on July 13th, 2011, and has 97 subscribers as of August 18th, 2011.
Like most of the other ragefaces, the “CLEAN ALL THE THINGS!” comic touches a direct nerve in me and in many redditors. This community is devoted to memetic variations on that wonderful image.
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