Are You A Wizard

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Are You A Wizard is a 2010 image macro reaction format that pairs wall-eyed, bewildered-looking portraits with the caption "Are you a wizard?" It gets posted as a reply to bizarre trivia, obscure technical claims, or painfully obvious statements.

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Overview

Are You A Wizard is an image macro reaction format built around close-up photos of wall-eyed or bewildered-looking subjects, captioned with the words "Are you a wizard?"5. People drop it as a reply to bizarre trivia, obscure life hacks, or overly detailed technical claims that sound like magic, and sometimes sarcastically to mock a painfully obvious statement.

Early versions were built on a portrait of a mustachioed man in glasses, and later a young boy in glasses hosted on a second Meme Generator page6. The format then opened up to other visibly stunned faces, including a Violent J shot recaptioned "Are you a magnet?"4.

How It Spread

The image started circulating outside Meme Generator in spring 2010. On March 23, 2010, the culture blog Dangerous Minds reposted the mustachioed-man version2. A week later, on March 30, Body Building Forums user craigcmead fired it back as a reply to a post about the chemical structure of pyruvate decarboxylase7. The earliest archived 4chan /b/ thread with the image went up on April 1, 2010, aimed at a walkthrough for hidden music files in Windows5.

On May 16, 2010, a second Meme Generator page launched, this one built around a photo of a young boy in glasses6. Four days later, The Chive picked up the original image in a roundup titled "Captions, making ordinary photos LOL"3. On May 22, MyConfinedSpace featured a Violent J variant captioned "Are you a magnet?", a nod to the Insane Clown Posse track "Miracles"4.

How to Use This Meme

Typical use: paste the wall-eyed portrait as a direct reply to any comment that reads like magic, whether that's a niche technical walkthrough, a piece of obscure trivia, or a life hack that sounds too good to be true. It also works sarcastically against a painfully obvious statement, in the same Captain Obvious register that the 2010 Body Building Forums thread hit when craigcmead deployed it against a chemistry post7.

Frequently Asked Questions

Are You A Wizard

2010image macroclassic

Are You A Wizard is a 2010 image macro reaction format that pairs wall-eyed, bewildered-looking portraits with the caption "Are you a wizard?" It gets posted as a reply to bizarre trivia, obscure technical claims, or painfully obvious statements.

reaction memes image macro memes catchphrase memes early 2010s memes 4chan memes

Overview

Are You A Wizard is an image macro reaction format built around close-up photos of wall-eyed or bewildered-looking subjects, captioned with the words "Are you a wizard?"5. People drop it as a reply to bizarre trivia, obscure life hacks, or overly detailed technical claims that sound like magic, and sometimes sarcastically to mock a painfully obvious statement.

Early versions were built on a portrait of a mustachioed man in glasses, and later a young boy in glasses hosted on a second Meme Generator page6. The format then opened up to other visibly stunned faces, including a Violent J shot recaptioned "Are you a magnet?"4.

How It Spread

The image started circulating outside Meme Generator in spring 2010. On March 23, 2010, the culture blog Dangerous Minds reposted the mustachioed-man version2. A week later, on March 30, Body Building Forums user craigcmead fired it back as a reply to a post about the chemical structure of pyruvate decarboxylase7. The earliest archived 4chan /b/ thread with the image went up on April 1, 2010, aimed at a walkthrough for hidden music files in Windows5.

On May 16, 2010, a second Meme Generator page launched, this one built around a photo of a young boy in glasses6. Four days later, The Chive picked up the original image in a roundup titled "Captions, making ordinary photos LOL"3. On May 22, MyConfinedSpace featured a Violent J variant captioned "Are you a magnet?", a nod to the Insane Clown Posse track "Miracles"4.

How to Use This Meme

Typical use: paste the wall-eyed portrait as a direct reply to any comment that reads like magic, whether that's a niche technical walkthrough, a piece of obscure trivia, or a life hack that sounds too good to be true. It also works sarcastically against a painfully obvious statement, in the same Captain Obvious register that the 2010 Body Building Forums thread hit when craigcmead deployed it against a chemistry post7.

Frequently Asked Questions