Boy sitting on throne of stacked Pepsi boxes with white caption reading 'Your politics bore me'

Your Politics Bore Me

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Published October 28, 2026

Your Politics Bore Me joins a Thanos line from Guardians of the Galaxy with a photo of a boy sitting atop stacked Pepsi cases like a makeshift throne. Redditor Romulus-Sensei combined the two pieces on /r/PoliticalCompassMemes in October 20202, and within days a reusable blank version appeared on Tumblr so posters could caption their own trivial complaints4.

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Overview

Your Politics Bore Me posts stack two layers: a Thanos quote sitting at the top as dismissal copy, with the Pepsi-boxed child beneath it as a bored little monarch. Caption versions replace "politics" with whatever the poster considers mundane, so arguments about diets, console wars or petty subreddit drama all end with the same king declaring boredom2. The humor leans on the gap between the quote's source, a cosmic warlord in gold armor, and the picture, a grinning kid in casual clothes propped on soft drink cases.

Before any dialogue got attached, the Pepsi photo circulated under its own title, "Diabeto, The unmovable," on r/Bossfight1. After the Marvel line joined it, posters used the boy as a mock sovereign for any trivial complaint, and later versions put different quotes above the throne pose while keeping the layout intact5.

Origin & Background

Platform
Reddit (image and quote mashup) / Tumblr (template spread)
Creator
Romulus-Sensei; xertoten posted the Pepsi throne photo first
Date
2020

Thanos delivers the line in Guardians of the Galaxy, released on April 1, 2014, while sitting on a stone throne in gold armor. A clip of the scene went up on YouTube on May 14, 2015, and collected around 34,000 views over six years3. Marvel wrote the dialogue, but the Your Politics Bore Me image macro did not exist until years later, when fans welded the still frame of the quote to a wholly unrelated photo.

That second ingredient landed on February 21, 2020, when Redditor xertoten posted the photo of a boy perched on stacked Pepsi cases to r/Bossfight under the title "Diabeto, The unmovable"1. The submission gathered about 130 upvotes before moderators removed it, but copies kept circulating as a reaction image for anything the poster wanted to appear immune to.

How It Spread

Redditor Romulus-Sensei brought the quote and image together on /r/PoliticalCompassMemes on October 26, 2020, posting a version titled "You foolish mortals" with the Thanos text pinned above the Pepsi throne. That post collected roughly 7,200 upvotes within a year2. Two days later, on October 28, 2020, the Tumblr page Rise Of The Druids put up a blank template so other users could reuse the layout with their own captions4.

From there the Your Politics Bore Me format drifted into general reaction use, with the word "politics" often replaced to fit whatever complaint was being dismissed5. The original YouTube clip of the Thanos delivery stayed online as the audio reference for anyone who wanted to hear the line as the actor said it3.

Timeline

2014-04-01

Guardians of the Galaxy releases, featuring Thanos saying "Your politics bore me" from a stone throne.

2015-05-14

A YouTube upload of the Thanos scene goes online and later collects about 34,000 views.

2020-02-21

Redditor xertoten posts the photo of a boy on stacked Pepsi cases to r/Bossfight as "Diabeto, The unmovable."

2020-10-26

Redditor Romulus-Sensei posts the combined quote-and-image version to /r/PoliticalCompassMemes, where it collects around 7,200 upvotes.

2020-10-28

The Tumblr blog Rise Of The Druids publishes a blank template of the macro for reuse.

How to Use This Meme

A typical Your Politics Bore Me post places the Thanos quote in white caption text above the image of the boy on the Pepsi throne. Many posters replace the word "politics" with the topic they consider trivial, following the common convention of "Your [subject] bore me." The Rise Of The Druids Tumblr template from October 28, 2020, often serves as the blank canvas4.

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