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About
Interior Monologue Captioning is a type of image captioning that is used by randomly dispersing text on an often unrelated image to reflect what the subject is thinking or feeling, often using the Comic Sans font. The captions are mostly, if not always, used to achieve comedic effect. Most of the time, the words used in the caption are misspelled and poor grammar is used in them, adding to the comedy.
Origin
[Researching]
Not much is known of the origin of this meme, but it is generally accepted that it started on the social mircoblogging site Tumblr.
Spread
Site: Shiba Confessions
Shiba Confessions[1] is a single topic blog featuring image macros of Shiba Inu with the overlaid text containing interior monologue captioning of what the Shiba is supposedly thinking. Created on July 7th, 2012, the blog originated from an idea by the now deactivated Shibaman tumblr blog.[2] As of November 11th, 2012, the blog counts 100 pages in size.
Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff
Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff[3] is a side project and intentionally terrible webcomic about the two titular characters and the surreal and nonsensical adventures they have. Created by Homestuck creator Andrew Hussie, the comic became popular through it spelling mistakes, copy and paste graphics, and bizarre settings and punchlines, making it qualify as an example of intentional so bad it’s good.
Notable examples
External References
[1]Tumblr – Shiba Confessions
[2]Tumblr – I’m doing this
[3]Mspaintadventures – Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff