# Is That All You Need? "Is That All You Need?" is an exploitable black-and-white webcomic by cartoonist Guy Downes, published to Twitter on July 22, 2020, showing a man with a cart full of labeled boxes asking a man holding a single box the title question[1]. The one-panel strip sat with eight likes for months before Instagram and Reddit reposts in late 2020 turned the labeled boxes into a template contrasting excess with what someone actually needs[6]. By mid-November 2020, r/wholesomememes was running the comic unchanged while r/Dabs was already rewriting the labels to joke about cannabis concentrates[2][5]. ## Origin Cartoonist Guy Downes, who runs the Office Guy Cartoons webcomic series, posted the one-panel strip to his @OfficeGuyToons Twitter account on July 22, 2020, under the title "All You Need"[1]. His tweet picked up only eight likes in its first year on the platform and attracted no immediate remix activity[6]. - **Platform:** Twitter (source) / Reddit and Instagram (viral spread) - **Creator:** Guy Downes - **Date:** 2020 ## Overview Each edit rewrites the text on the many cart boxes and the lone box to contrast an overflow of options with the one thing the poster claims to care about[6]. The joke works by picking two sides of a tension: the cart carries distractions, consumer goods, or genre tropes, while the solitary box names a sincere or self-deprecating answer. Early iterations stuck close to Downes' original wholesome framing, keeping "Love" on the single box[2], before edits like @infinite.cum.haters' rewrite to "strange images" nudged the template toward absurdist humor[4]. Tone splits sharply by subreddit. On r/wholesomememes the unedited comic read as sincere[2], while on r/Dabs the labels were retooled to list cannabis extraction methods against a user's actual preference[5]. Both approaches keep Downes' line art and dialogue intact and only overwrite the box text. ## How to Use Posters typically keep Downes' panel intact and overwrite the labels. One common convention stacks the cart boxes with a long list of options tied to a hobby, fandom, or vice, then leaves the single box with the poster's actual pick[5]. Humor often hinges on whether the contrast lands as sincere, as with "Love" on r/wholesomememes[2], or as a joke at the poster's own expense. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Is That All You Need?? It is an exploitable image macro based on a July 2020 one-panel webcomic by cartoonist Guy Downes, in which a man pushing a cart stacked with labeled boxes asks another man holding a single labeled box the title question[1]. ### Where did Is That All You Need? come from? Guy Downes posted the comic, titled "All You Need," to his @OfficeGuyToons Twitter account on July 22, 2020, under the Office Guy Cartoons webcomic brand[1]. ### What does Is That All You Need? mean? The format contrasts an overflow of wants, listed on the cart boxes, against a single thing on the lone box; the joke lands as either sincere wholesomeness, as on r/wholesomememes[2], or self-deprecating admission about a hobby or vice, as on r/Dabs[5]. ### How do you use Is That All You Need?? Posters keep Downes' panel intact and overwrite the box labels, typically filling the cart with a long list of options and leaving the single box with the actual preferred answer[4]. ### Is Is That All You Need? still popular? Documented remixes cluster in November 2020 across Instagram and Reddit, with r/wholesomememes[2] and r/Dabs[5] driving the biggest threads; KYM notes the template was still being exploited into 2021 but no major mainstream resurgence followed[6]. ## References 1. [https://twitter.com/OfficeGuyToons/status/1286078721263198208]() 2. [https://www.reddit.com/r/wholesomememes/comments/jw8um6/somebody_to_love/]() 3. [https://www.reddit.com/r/Anticonsumption/comments/jum7y8/all_you_need/]() 4. [https://www.instagram.com/p/CHg27fklMg3/]() 5. [https://www.reddit.com/r/Dabs/comments/juwl8l/whether_you_can_afford_it_or_not_we_all_know_and/]() 6. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/is-that-all-you-need]() 7. [https://www.instagram.com/p/CHAV0sugQIz/]() 8. [https://www.instagram.com/p/CHgXsTSFTq5/]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/is-that-all-you-need Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library