# Facebomb Facebomb is a Photoshop technique where one person's face from a group photo gets pasted over every other face in the same shot. The format traces back to 4chan's Weegee edits in 2007 and hit peak visibility on Reddit and Tumblr between 2010 and 2012. ## Overview Facebomb is a Photoshop trick where one person's face is lifted from a group photograph and then cloned over every other face in the same image[1]. Unlike a straight face swap, which trades faces between two people, a facebomb multiplies a single face across the entire frame so a whole cast, crowd, or beauty pageant lineup ends up wearing the same expression[1]. The humor is in the pattern break. Viewers expect variety in a group shot, and instead see the same person staring back four, six, or a dozen times. On Reddit the format is usually shown in a vertical four-panel image, with the facebomb saved for the final reveal panel and the caption "am I doing this right?"[1]. ## How It Spread The Photoshop meaning took over in late 2009. On December 1st, 2009, the single-topic blog Nic Cage as Everyone posted a Seinfeld cast photo with every character's face replaced by Nicolas Cage, one of the first widely shared facebombs on the open web[2]. The following summer, on July 13th, 2010, the news blog Urlesque ran a roundup of standout facebomb edits that pushed the format past its 4chan roots[1]. Reddit made it a running joke. On September 13th, 2010, user Jgunman posted a four-pane image of Miss Universe contestants ending in a facebomb reveal to r/pics under the title "First Post. Am I Doing This Right?" The post pulled in more than 2,700 upvotes and 440 comments before being archived[1]. A dedicated Facebomb Tumblr launched on October 6th, 2010, collecting the best examples in one feed[4]. The format kept surfacing over the next two years. On November 26th, 2011, 9GAG user danielma90 uploaded a facebomb captioned "Difficulty Level, Asian"[7]. Smosh published a 20-image facebomb compilation on January 20th, 2012[6], and on July 19th, 2012, the FaceBomb mobile app shipped, letting phone users clone a face over every subject in a photo automatically[1]. ## How to Use To make a facebomb, pick a group photo, sample one face from it, then paste that same face over each other person in the shot, matching skin tone and angle as best you can. The common Reddit convention is to stack the original photo and the edited version in a four-panel image, with the facebomb saved for the final panel and a caption like "am I doing this right?"[1]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Facebomb? Facebomb is a Photoshop technique where one person's face from a group photo is copied over every other face in the same picture, so everyone in the frame ends up looking identical[1]. ### Where did Facebomb come from? The format grew out of 4chan's 2007 Weegee edits, which pasted Luigi's face onto random subjects, and picked up the facebomb label after late-2009 examples like the Nic Cage as Everyone Seinfeld edit[2]. ### What does Facebomb mean? In meme use it means multiplying one face across a whole group image, not the older Urban Dictionary sense of spamming someone's Facebook wall with comments[3]. ### How do you use Facebomb? Take a group photo, clone one subject's face over every other face, and on Reddit stack the result in a four-panel image ending with the facebomb reveal and the caption "am I doing this right?"[1]. ### Is Facebomb still popular? It peaked between 2010 and 2012 with the Reddit posts, Tumblr blog, and the July 2012 FaceBomb mobile app, and is now treated as a classic Photoshop format rather than a trending one[1]. ## References 1. [https://niccageaseveryone.blogspot.com/2009/12/nic-cage-as-kramer-george-costanza.html]() 2. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/facebomb]() 3. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Facebomb]() 4. [https://facebomb.tumblr.com/]() 5. [https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/]() 6. [https://www.smosh.com/]() 7. [https://9gag.com/]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/facebomb Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library