# Are You A Wizard 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. ## 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 page[6]. 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 version[2]. 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 decarboxylase[7]. The earliest archived 4chan /b/ thread with the image went up on April 1, 2010, aimed at a walkthrough for hidden music files in Windows[5]. On May 16, 2010, a second Meme Generator page launched, this one built around a photo of a young boy in glasses[6]. 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 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 post[7]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Are You A Wizard? Are You A Wizard is an image macro reaction format built around wall-eyed portraits captioned with the phrase "Are you a wizard?", posted as a reply to bizarre or magic-seeming claims[5]. ### Where did Are You A Wizard come from? The phrase first surfaced in a Left Handed Toons webcomic titled "Wizard Time" on June 19, 2009, and was turned into an image macro on Meme Generator in early 2010[1]. ### What does Are You A Wizard mean? It expresses mock disbelief at something that sounds like magic, as with the Violent J variant captioned "Are you a magnet?" that riffs on the Insane Clown Posse song "Miracles"[4]. ### How do you use Are You A Wizard? Post the wall-eyed image as a reply to any comment that reads like magic, in the style of the March 2010 Body Building Forums reply about pyruvate decarboxylase[7]. ### Is Are You A Wizard still popular? The template saw heavy use in 2010 through 2012 across 4chan, The Chive, FunnyJunk, and Tumblr, and is now treated as a classic early 2010s reaction image[3]. ## References 1. [http://www.lefthandedtoons.com/667/]() 2. [https://dangerousminds.net/comments/are_you_a_wizard]() 3. [http://thechive.com/2010/05/20/captions-making-ordinary-photos-lol-32-photos/]() 4. [https://myconfinedspace.com/2010/05/22/are-you-magic/]() 5. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/are-you-a-wizard]() 6. [https://memegenerator.net/Are-You-A-Wizard]() 7. [https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=127289031]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/are-you-a-wizard Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library