# Versus Pooping Versus Pooping is an exploitable image format built on a photo of a bathroom with two toilets facing each other, topped with pictures of two rivals seemingly locked in a competitive bowel movement. First surfacing on Imgur in January 2016 as a 'Super Saiyan Pooping Contest' joke[1], the layout turned into a Reddit meme template in spring 2020 after users paired it with Greta Thunberg and other famous faces[2]. ## Origin The source photograph of the back-to-back toilet setup first showed up on Imgur on January 12th, 2016, uploaded by an unnamed account that titled it 'Super Saiyan Pooping Contest'[1]. A second shot of a similar face-off bathroom appeared on Imgur on June 22nd, 2017 under the caption 'Uhhh… I guess everyone needs a pooping buddy?' and pulled in a few hundred views over four years[5]. Neither of the original photographers is identified, and the KYM entry notes that the earliest bathroom images are 'somewhat obscured' in their provenance[4]. The pictures circulated as curiosities about weird plumbing until Reddit posters repurposed them into a two-panel template years later. - **Platform:** Imgur (source image) / Reddit (viral spread) - **Creator:** Unknown - **Date:** 2016 ## Overview Each Versus Pooping edit stacks two panels. The bottom panel is the fixed bathroom photo showing two toilets installed directly across from each other, with no stall divider between them. The top panel is the swappable half, where creators drop in two faces, characters, or logos staring one another down, implying the pair is grinding through a head-to-head session on the bowls below[4]. The humor leans on strained or furious expressions in the top panel, which readers reinterpret as poop-face once they clock the toilets. Posters picked matchups that stretch the gag, from real figures like climate activist Greta Thunberg to video game villains like Senator Armstrong from Metal Gear Rising[4]. The format works as a reaction template too, since any existing standoff image can be slapped above the bathroom to recast a rivalry as a toilet duel. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Versus Pooping? Versus Pooping is an exploitable two-panel image macro that places two feuding figures above a photo of a bathroom with two toilets facing each other, implying a 1v1 pooping contest[4]. ### Where did Versus Pooping come from? The base photo was posted anonymously to Imgur on January 12th, 2016 with the caption 'Super Saiyan Pooping Contest'[1], and a second similar bathroom image was uploaded to Imgur on June 22nd, 2017[5]. ### What does Versus Pooping mean? The joke reframes any standoff between two people or characters as them sitting on opposing toilets, reading the pained faces in the top panel as their poop-faces mid-contest[4]. ### How do you use Versus Pooping? Posters typically keep the toilet bathroom photo as the bottom panel and swap in two staring, angry, or straining figures on top, as Redditor TheNeonJudgement did with Greta Thunberg in May 2020[2]. ### Is Versus Pooping still popular? The format saw its heaviest Reddit activity in 2020 with posts like SuperVermiceli's r/me_irl entry[3] and TheNeonJudgement's Greta Thunberg edit[2], and it is cited as a recognized exploitable in meme archives[4]. ## References 1. [https://imgur.com/JFGVJ4O]() 2. [https://www.reddit.com/r/OliverMarkusMalloy/comments/ggcbox/intense/]() 3. [https://www.reddit.com/r/me_irl/comments/g8dhbo/me_irl/]() 4. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/versus-pooping]() 5. [https://imgur.com/ln7Z3hv]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/versus-pooping Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library