Read, Max (1 August 2019). "Is Andrew Yang the Doomer Candidate?". Intelligencer. Archived from the original on 1 August 2019 . Retrieved 17 October 2019.

On May 5th, an entry for "grayons" was submitted to Urban Dictionary. [10] On August 7th, a collection of edited variations of the character was published on Ebaumsworld [9] (shown below). Feldman, Brian (13 February 2017). "People Are Arguing About the Size of Their Brains Using MS-Paint Illustrations". Intelligencer . Retrieved 15 September 2023. On June 4th, a "Brainlet Safe Thread" was posted to /sci/ along with a picture of Wojak with a microscopic brain (shown below, left). [5] On July 2nd, a picture of Wojak with an atrophied head was submitted to the /biz/ (Business & Finance) board in a thread titled "/brainlet/" (shown below). West, Ed (14 August 2021). "Why the Left can't meme". Unherd. Archived from the original on 24 September 2021 . Retrieved 22 September 2021. The meme gained media attention, initially in Kotaku and The New York Times, due to its usage in parodying the supposed herd mentality of American liberals. [6] [8]Abascal, Luis (4 July 2021). "Basado, charocracia, chad o pesetas y cunetas: así habla el Team Facha". Elplural (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 19 September 2021 . Retrieved 22 September 2021.

Yes! Animated meme templates will show up when you search in the Meme Generator above (try "party parrot"). On October 18th, an anonymous 4chan user submitted a post to /r9k/ with the green text "think for your whole life that you are intelligent / you are actually a brainlet" (shown below). That day, a screenshot of the post was submitted to the subreddit /r/4chan, [4] where it gathered more than 800 points (96% upvoted) within one week. The earliest known “Wojak” is a Polish user on the English-speaking board /int/ of the defunct German imageboard Krautchan. This user started posting the image around 2010, often accompanied by lament about not having a girlfriend. But in addition to an argument about the government, this meme also makes an argument about the nature of truth and knowledge. In this meme, true knowledge is ultimately intuitive (as available to the fool as it is to the scholar) and appears (in terms of affect) always calmly considered and contemplatively presented. Intuitiveness and calm are the criteria that define truth: intelligence or reasoning is not a real factor.

Keating, Shannon (11 September 2019). "Against Nihilism". BuzzFeed News. Archived from the original on 4 June 2020 . Retrieved 27 April 2020. Feldman, Brian (13 February 2017). "People Are Arguing About the Size of Their Brains Using MS-Paint Illustrations". Intelligencer. Archived from the original on 1 August 2021 . Retrieved 1 August 2021.