1998 Eye Chart

2018Image macro / exploitable chartsemi-active

Also known as: Eye Caste System · Eye Color Chart · A10 Eyes Meme

1998 Eye Chart is a 2018 image macro repurposing a My Twinn doll form's eye colors into a satirical "Eye Caste System" racial hierarchy, ranking from A10 "Ice Blue" to T50.

The 1998 Eye Chart is an image macro meme built from a doll customization form originally used by the "My Twinn" company between 1996 and 2002. Internet users, primarily on 4chan's /pol/ board and iFunny, repurposed the eye color section of this form into a satirical (and sometimes sincere) racial hierarchy called the "Eye Caste System," ranking people by eye color from A10 "Ice Blue" at the top to T50 at the bottom1. The meme became a staple of both looksmaxing communities and their critics, generating waves of parodies and counter-memes.

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Overview

The 1998 Eye Chart meme uses a section of a real product questionnaire from the My Twinn doll company, which made custom dolls designed to look like real children1. The relevant section displayed rows of illustrated eye colors, each labeled with an alphanumeric code. Internet users extracted this eye color grid and overlaid it with a tiered social hierarchy. A10, the lightest ice-blue shade, sat at the top with grandiose descriptions like "Men destined to define eras and change history, who will be remembered for millennia to come"8. Darker eye colors were assigned progressively lower social roles, down to "Untouchable — Sanitation Workers, Street Sweepers" at the bottom6.

The format is instantly recognizable: a vertical arrangement of eye color swatches paired with class labels, structured like a caste pyramid. Some users posted it seriously as a form of race science; others deployed it as ironic shitposting or outright mockery of the premise1.

The source material traces back to a company called My Twinn, based in Denver, Colorado, which offered custom-made dolls starting in 19967. Parents filled out a personal profile sheet describing their child's features, so the company could build a doll that matched. The third question on the form was eye color, presented as a grid of color swatches labeled A10 through T501.

My Twinn refined its questionnaire several times. The 1996 version had a simpler layout, while a 1998 revision expanded the color options with a more comprehensive grid1. Collector Connie Marshall documented multiple versions of these charts spanning from Spring 1996 through Fall 1999 and beyond7. The company continued using variations of the form until around 2002, when production moved out of Denver7.

In the early 2000s, the eye color section of these forms began circulating online, detached from its original doll-ordering context1. Early posts were simple polls asking users to identify their own eye color on the chart. At some point, an anonymous user layered a social hierarchy onto the color rows, creating the "Eye Caste System" that would become the meme's defining format1.

Origin & Background

Platform
My Twinn doll company (source document), 4chan /pol/ (meme format)
Creator
Unknown
Date
Early 2000s (source material), ~2018 (meme usage)

The source material traces back to a company called My Twinn, based in Denver, Colorado, which offered custom-made dolls starting in 1996. Parents filled out a personal profile sheet describing their child's features, so the company could build a doll that matched. The third question on the form was eye color, presented as a grid of color swatches labeled A10 through T50.

My Twinn refined its questionnaire several times. The 1996 version had a simpler layout, while a 1998 revision expanded the color options with a more comprehensive grid. Collector Connie Marshall documented multiple versions of these charts spanning from Spring 1996 through Fall 1999 and beyond. The company continued using variations of the form until around 2002, when production moved out of Denver.

In the early 2000s, the eye color section of these forms began circulating online, detached from its original doll-ordering context. Early posts were simple polls asking users to identify their own eye color on the chart. At some point, an anonymous user layered a social hierarchy onto the color rows, creating the "Eye Caste System" that would become the meme's defining format.

How It Spread

The Eye Caste System version gained traction on 4chan's /pol/ (Politically Incorrect) board, where a thread titled "The eye caste system" asked users directly: "So /pol/, were you born to be a leader or a peasant? This shows the undeniable truth". The format fit neatly into /pol/'s existing interest in phenotype-based hierarchies and race debates.

From 4chan, the meme migrated heavily to iFunny, where it generated dozens of variations and response posts. Users debated their own placement on the chart with varying degrees of sincerity. One popular iFunny post showed users arguing over their tier assignments, with comments like "Yall got blue eyes and still no bitches, a waste really" and "I'm in the 2nd or 3rd row, which means the meme is pretty positive for me. It's super stupid, but it's still funny". Another thread featured users confessing personal details and asking "What does that make me?" based on the chart's logic.

The meme also crossed into looksmaxing and incel-adjacent communities, where it merged with other appearance-rating systems. One iFunny post referenced it alongside "canthal tilt" measurements and "PSLI ratings," noting ironically that "Robert Downey Jr has like T30s". The chart became one piece of a larger toolkit used to classify physical appearance in pseudo-scientific terms.

Counter-memes emerged quickly. One widely shared version replaced the hierarchy labels with absurd or self-deprecating categories. A notable parody showed a run-down trailer park with the caption "POV YOURE DESTINED TO DEFINE ERAS," flipping the A10 supremacy claim on its head by placing light-eyed people in unflattering contexts. Another variation swapped eye colors for energy drink preferences, assigning the same grandiose tier labels to beverages like Red Bull, Monster, and Bang Energy.

The meme also appeared in explicitly racist contexts, with some users adopting terms like "swarthoid" to mock people with darker features. These posts were frequently flagged and removed on mainstream platforms but persisted in the meme's native habitats on iFunny and the *chan boards.

How to Use This Meme

The basic template works like this: take the eye color chart (or any similar tiered visual), assign social roles to each tier, and let people self-sort. The humor comes from the absurdity of ranking human worth by eye pigmentation.

Common approaches include:

1

Straight hierarchy posting — Present the chart with the original caste labels and invite people to share their eye color. This version walks a blurry line between joke and sincere belief.

2

Ironic inversion — Keep the chart but assign the "best" tier to the least glamorous outcome. Trailer parks for A10, mansions for T50.

3

Subject swap — Replace eye colors with something else entirely (energy drinks, dog breeds, car brands) while keeping the caste language intact.

4

Self-deprecating placement — Post the chart and announce your own low tier with exaggerated despair or pride.

Cultural Impact

The 1998 Eye Chart sits at an uncomfortable intersection of internet humor and race pseudoscience. While most users engage with it as an obvious joke, the format's structure mirrors real-world caste thinking closely enough that it attracted genuine supremacist adoption on boards like /pol/. This dual life made it a frequent subject of discussion in online spaces that track the pipeline between ironic memes and sincere radicalization.

The meme also fed into the broader looksmaxing movement of the late 2010s and early 2020s, where physical traits were catalogued and ranked with obsessive precision. Eye color became one more variable in an ever-expanding spreadsheet of self-evaluation, alongside jawline measurements, shoulder-to-waist ratios, and canthal tilt angles.

DigestFromExperts published a detailed breakdown of the A10 eye color's meaning and origin, noting that some scientific studies have looked at eye color and perceived attractiveness, though none validated the meme's hierarchy.

Fun Facts

The original My Twinn dolls cost around $100-$150 and were meant to be comforting companions for children, not material for internet race debates.

The company refined its color charts multiple times between 1996 and 2002, with collector Connie Marshall documenting at least six distinct versions.

Despite the meme's emphasis on A10 as the "rarest" eye color, standard ophthalmological charts don't use the A10 designation at all. Your real eye color would fall on a completely different scale.

One iFunny commenter pointed out that Robert Downey Jr., who frequently appears in "superior alpha" memes as Tony Stark, would rank around T30 on the chart.

Derivatives & Variations

A10 Eyes edits

— Focused specifically on the lightest blue tier, with memes either glorifying or mocking people who claim A10 status[1].

Energy drink caste system

— Replaced eye colors with beverages, assigning Red Bull to the philosopher-king tier and generic energy drinks to the peasant tier[8].

Trailer park A10

— Counter-meme showing run-down settings with the caption about being "destined to define eras," satirizing the original's premise[1].

Looksmaxing crossover posts

— Combined the eye chart with canthal tilt measurements and PSLI scores for a layered appearance-rating format[3].

"Swarthoid" hunting memes

— More extreme derivative posts that used the chart's logic to create fictional persecution narratives[4].

Frequently Asked Questions

References (9)

  1. 1
    A10 Ice Blue Eyes: The Elite Eye Color in the Eye Chart Memearticle
  2. 2
    /pol/ - Politically Incorrect » Thread #216442946 » The eye caste systemarticle
  3. 3
    Jarvis calculate canthal tilt, cross reference with eye color chart and determine PSLI rating. Reply swarthoid detected" under post. - iFunnyarticle
  4. 4
    Memeencyclopedia
  5. 5
    Me hunting down the last swarthoid - iFunnyarticle
  6. 6
    Picture memes me6d0T7l8 by quandarious: 27 comments - iFunnyarticle
  7. 7
    Untouchable- Sanitation Workers, Street Sweepers - iFunnyarticle
  8. 8
    My Twinn Color Charts 1996 -2002 'Denver Era'article
  9. 9
    Men destined to define eras and change history, who will be remembered for millenia to come Philosophers, Kings, Explorers, and Inventors Influential Artists, Writers, and Generals Officers, Officials, Diplomats Middle Management, Soldiers, Craftsmen Manual Labourers, Peasants, Street Merchants Untouchable- WW) Sanitation Workers, Street Sweepers - iFunnyarticle

1998 Eye Chart

2018Image macro / exploitable chartsemi-active

Also known as: Eye Caste System · Eye Color Chart · A10 Eyes Meme

1998 Eye Chart is a 2018 image macro repurposing a My Twinn doll form's eye colors into a satirical "Eye Caste System" racial hierarchy, ranking from A10 "Ice Blue" to T50.

The 1998 Eye Chart is an image macro meme built from a doll customization form originally used by the "My Twinn" company between 1996 and 2002. Internet users, primarily on 4chan's /pol/ board and iFunny, repurposed the eye color section of this form into a satirical (and sometimes sincere) racial hierarchy called the "Eye Caste System," ranking people by eye color from A10 "Ice Blue" at the top to T50 at the bottom. The meme became a staple of both looksmaxing communities and their critics, generating waves of parodies and counter-memes.

race and identity memes 4chan memes ifunny memes looksmaxxing memes image macro memes

Overview

The 1998 Eye Chart meme uses a section of a real product questionnaire from the My Twinn doll company, which made custom dolls designed to look like real children. The relevant section displayed rows of illustrated eye colors, each labeled with an alphanumeric code. Internet users extracted this eye color grid and overlaid it with a tiered social hierarchy. A10, the lightest ice-blue shade, sat at the top with grandiose descriptions like "Men destined to define eras and change history, who will be remembered for millennia to come". Darker eye colors were assigned progressively lower social roles, down to "Untouchable — Sanitation Workers, Street Sweepers" at the bottom.

The format is instantly recognizable: a vertical arrangement of eye color swatches paired with class labels, structured like a caste pyramid. Some users posted it seriously as a form of race science; others deployed it as ironic shitposting or outright mockery of the premise.

The source material traces back to a company called My Twinn, based in Denver, Colorado, which offered custom-made dolls starting in 1996. Parents filled out a personal profile sheet describing their child's features, so the company could build a doll that matched. The third question on the form was eye color, presented as a grid of color swatches labeled A10 through T50.

My Twinn refined its questionnaire several times. The 1996 version had a simpler layout, while a 1998 revision expanded the color options with a more comprehensive grid. Collector Connie Marshall documented multiple versions of these charts spanning from Spring 1996 through Fall 1999 and beyond. The company continued using variations of the form until around 2002, when production moved out of Denver.

In the early 2000s, the eye color section of these forms began circulating online, detached from its original doll-ordering context. Early posts were simple polls asking users to identify their own eye color on the chart. At some point, an anonymous user layered a social hierarchy onto the color rows, creating the "Eye Caste System" that would become the meme's defining format.

Origin & Background

Platform
My Twinn doll company (source document), 4chan /pol/ (meme format)
Creator
Unknown
Date
Early 2000s (source material), ~2018 (meme usage)

The source material traces back to a company called My Twinn, based in Denver, Colorado, which offered custom-made dolls starting in 1996. Parents filled out a personal profile sheet describing their child's features, so the company could build a doll that matched. The third question on the form was eye color, presented as a grid of color swatches labeled A10 through T50.

My Twinn refined its questionnaire several times. The 1996 version had a simpler layout, while a 1998 revision expanded the color options with a more comprehensive grid. Collector Connie Marshall documented multiple versions of these charts spanning from Spring 1996 through Fall 1999 and beyond. The company continued using variations of the form until around 2002, when production moved out of Denver.

In the early 2000s, the eye color section of these forms began circulating online, detached from its original doll-ordering context. Early posts were simple polls asking users to identify their own eye color on the chart. At some point, an anonymous user layered a social hierarchy onto the color rows, creating the "Eye Caste System" that would become the meme's defining format.

How It Spread

The Eye Caste System version gained traction on 4chan's /pol/ (Politically Incorrect) board, where a thread titled "The eye caste system" asked users directly: "So /pol/, were you born to be a leader or a peasant? This shows the undeniable truth". The format fit neatly into /pol/'s existing interest in phenotype-based hierarchies and race debates.

From 4chan, the meme migrated heavily to iFunny, where it generated dozens of variations and response posts. Users debated their own placement on the chart with varying degrees of sincerity. One popular iFunny post showed users arguing over their tier assignments, with comments like "Yall got blue eyes and still no bitches, a waste really" and "I'm in the 2nd or 3rd row, which means the meme is pretty positive for me. It's super stupid, but it's still funny". Another thread featured users confessing personal details and asking "What does that make me?" based on the chart's logic.

The meme also crossed into looksmaxing and incel-adjacent communities, where it merged with other appearance-rating systems. One iFunny post referenced it alongside "canthal tilt" measurements and "PSLI ratings," noting ironically that "Robert Downey Jr has like T30s". The chart became one piece of a larger toolkit used to classify physical appearance in pseudo-scientific terms.

Counter-memes emerged quickly. One widely shared version replaced the hierarchy labels with absurd or self-deprecating categories. A notable parody showed a run-down trailer park with the caption "POV YOURE DESTINED TO DEFINE ERAS," flipping the A10 supremacy claim on its head by placing light-eyed people in unflattering contexts. Another variation swapped eye colors for energy drink preferences, assigning the same grandiose tier labels to beverages like Red Bull, Monster, and Bang Energy.

The meme also appeared in explicitly racist contexts, with some users adopting terms like "swarthoid" to mock people with darker features. These posts were frequently flagged and removed on mainstream platforms but persisted in the meme's native habitats on iFunny and the *chan boards.

How to Use This Meme

The basic template works like this: take the eye color chart (or any similar tiered visual), assign social roles to each tier, and let people self-sort. The humor comes from the absurdity of ranking human worth by eye pigmentation.

Common approaches include:

1

Straight hierarchy posting — Present the chart with the original caste labels and invite people to share their eye color. This version walks a blurry line between joke and sincere belief.

2

Ironic inversion — Keep the chart but assign the "best" tier to the least glamorous outcome. Trailer parks for A10, mansions for T50.

3

Subject swap — Replace eye colors with something else entirely (energy drinks, dog breeds, car brands) while keeping the caste language intact.

4

Self-deprecating placement — Post the chart and announce your own low tier with exaggerated despair or pride.

Cultural Impact

The 1998 Eye Chart sits at an uncomfortable intersection of internet humor and race pseudoscience. While most users engage with it as an obvious joke, the format's structure mirrors real-world caste thinking closely enough that it attracted genuine supremacist adoption on boards like /pol/. This dual life made it a frequent subject of discussion in online spaces that track the pipeline between ironic memes and sincere radicalization.

The meme also fed into the broader looksmaxing movement of the late 2010s and early 2020s, where physical traits were catalogued and ranked with obsessive precision. Eye color became one more variable in an ever-expanding spreadsheet of self-evaluation, alongside jawline measurements, shoulder-to-waist ratios, and canthal tilt angles.

DigestFromExperts published a detailed breakdown of the A10 eye color's meaning and origin, noting that some scientific studies have looked at eye color and perceived attractiveness, though none validated the meme's hierarchy.

Fun Facts

The original My Twinn dolls cost around $100-$150 and were meant to be comforting companions for children, not material for internet race debates.

The company refined its color charts multiple times between 1996 and 2002, with collector Connie Marshall documenting at least six distinct versions.

Despite the meme's emphasis on A10 as the "rarest" eye color, standard ophthalmological charts don't use the A10 designation at all. Your real eye color would fall on a completely different scale.

One iFunny commenter pointed out that Robert Downey Jr., who frequently appears in "superior alpha" memes as Tony Stark, would rank around T30 on the chart.

Derivatives & Variations

A10 Eyes edits

— Focused specifically on the lightest blue tier, with memes either glorifying or mocking people who claim A10 status[1].

Energy drink caste system

— Replaced eye colors with beverages, assigning Red Bull to the philosopher-king tier and generic energy drinks to the peasant tier[8].

Trailer park A10

— Counter-meme showing run-down settings with the caption about being "destined to define eras," satirizing the original's premise[1].

Looksmaxing crossover posts

— Combined the eye chart with canthal tilt measurements and PSLI scores for a layered appearance-rating format[3].

"Swarthoid" hunting memes

— More extreme derivative posts that used the chart's logic to create fictional persecution narratives[4].

Frequently Asked Questions