About
Look At Him And Laugh is a catchphrase and reaction image, depicting characters laughing while pointing at things, that invite people to mock on someone who showed or said something found to be stupid, in a typical Schadenfreude way.
Origin
As a reaction image, the first macro displaying the catchphrase was part of the 60s Spider-man macro meme that took over 4chan in 2009. It depicts Spider-Man pointing at something and two police officers laughing with the capion “Look at him Look at him and laugh” underneath (shown below). While there is no archive pinpointing an exact date of its use on the imageboard, its earliest mention was from a Tumblr page[1] cataloguing reaction images, dated April 6th 2011.
Spread
Through out the following years, the Spider-man picture became a widely used reaction on imageboards and forums alike, making appearances on 4chan[2], Funnyjunk[3], forum threads such as Gamespot’s[4] and comment sections such as Gizmodo’s[5] or even Fark[6].
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Notable Examples
External References
[1]Tumblr – Fuck Yeah Reactions
[2]Archive.moe – /a/ thread No.69144158[4chan archive: may contain NSFW content]
[3]Funnyjunk – Facebook Fail
[4]Gamespot – Religious Argument for Marriage
[5]Gizmodo – If Tech Companies Made Holiday Party Invitations, They Would Look Like This
[6]Fark – What secret is Princess Cadance and Shining Armor hiding from Twilight Sparkle? Did Pinkie Pie plan the wedding reception? Will Derpy bring muffins? It’s the Royal Wedding season finale of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, 1 pm on The Hub