# The Object To Your Left The Object To Your Left is a forum game asking participants to identify whatever sits closest to their left hand as their weapon for a hypothetical zombie apocalypse. The zombie version began circulating in August 2010 after a hand-pointing image appeared on the blog Design Crush, then jumped to MyConfinedSpace, Geekologie and over a dozen niche forums within weeks. By March 2012, F7U12 rage comics about grabbing televisions or cell phones earned thousands of upvotes on Reddit and locked the format into early meme history. ## Origin Early "object to your left" threads surfaced on Yahoo! Answers as early as May 18, 2009, when a user named Mayhem asked respondents to fill a blank in the quote "The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of ______" using whatever item sat near their left hand[2]. The variant tying the object to a zombie apocalypse weapon came later and traveled with an image showing a disembodied hand pointing left. One of the earliest copies of that image was posted to the design and lifestyle blog Design Crush on August 9, 2010, under a post titled "Monday Goodness: Zombie Apocolypse"[1]. The blog entry framed the question as a lighthearted survival test for readers in the comments, and the finger-pointing graphic became the version that circulated on humor aggregators over the following month[6]. - **Platform:** Yahoo! Answers / Design Crush (viral spread) - **Creator:** Unknown - **Date:** 2009 ## Overview Participants answer honestly, naming whatever household item happens to sit nearest their left hand, usually a lamp, a coffee mug, a TV remote or a pet toy[1]. The comedy depends on the gap between the mundane object and the imagined zombie horde, with posters either admitting defeat or inventing elaborate tactics for killing the undead with a stapler or a USB cable[3]. The prompt travels well because it needs no template beyond a single sentence, though it is often paired with a shareable image of a hand pointing left at empty space[1]. A right-pointing counterpart appeared in October 2010 for users uncomfortable with the left-hand version[6], and rage comic artists later adapted the setup into four-panel strips showing panicked reactions to useless weapons[4]. On Tumblr, roleplay-bloggers writing survivalist scenarios adopted the question as a worldbuilding exercise[6]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is The Object To Your Left? A forum game asking participants to look at the object nearest their left hand and declare it their weapon against a zombie apocalypse[1]. ### Where did The Object To Your Left come from? An early variant appeared on Yahoo! Answers in May 2009, and the zombie-weapon version with the hand-pointing image was posted on the blog Design Crush on August 9, 2010[2][1]. ### What does The Object To Your Left mean? It is a randomness-based prompt that turns whatever mundane item a player happens to be sitting next to into the punchline of a survival scenario[3]. ### How do you use The Object To Your Left? Players answer honestly with the actual item near their left hand, from lamps to coffee mugs, then describe how they would kill zombies with it[4]. ### Is The Object To Your Left still popular? The format peaked across forums and rage comics in 2010 to 2012, with a Reddit F7U12 strip earning 3,610 upvotes in March 2012[7], and is treated now as a classic forum game. ## References 1. [https://www.designcrushblog.com/2010/08/09/monday-goodness-zombie-apocolypse/#comments]() 2. [http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AhTAyHk0OJNqLZVyx7dUZB9JBgx.;_ylv=3?qid=20090518091943AABMrYt]() 3. [https://www.myconfinedspace.com/2010/09/07/the-object-to-your-left-is-weapon-of-choice/]() 4. [https://www.geekologie.com/2010/09/the-object-to-your-left-is-now.php]() 5. [https://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/1257544/The/]() 6. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-object-to-your-left]() 7. [https://www.reddit.com/r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu/comments/qzh6x]() 8. [http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/1095199/The+object+to+your+right/]() 9. [http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/object+to+your+left]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/the-object-to-your-left Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library