Can You Please Photoshop The Sun Between My Fingers?

About

Can You Please Photoshop The Sun Between My Fingers? (often accompied by “Hey X”, with X representing a site or community) is a phrase that refers to a picture of a male failing at an attempt to take a forced perspective photo of himself in which the sun is placed between his fingers. The results of this request commonly feature intentionally bad or incorrect photoshops.

Origin

[Researching: Believed to first appear around late 2011.]

Spread

From December 10th to December 12th, 2011, over 20 image macros and demotivational posters (shown below) were created for the image on Cheezburger.^[8] Although they quickly lowered after that, with new variations only appearing once every few months.

On September 4th, 2012, Tumblr user Scarvenrot made a post^[6] containing a drawing of the character Dirk Strider of the webcomic Homestuck in the style of the original image (shown below, left). On September 8th, Tumblr user Cheese3d posted a similar drawing^[7] using the characters John Egbert and Dave Strider from Homestuck (shown below, right). As of November 19th of the same year, the posts gathered respectively over 2,600 and 3,700 notes.

On October 28th, 2012, Tumblr user securethevictory made a post containing a collection of 7 intentionally incorrect photoshops (shown below) of the original image.^[1] As of November 19th of the same year, the post has accumulated over 71,000 notes. The post was collected into a Imgur folder the next day, which has acumulated over 1,300 points as of November 19th.^[2] In the following weeks, the same collection made its way onto numerous humor blogs and sites such as DamnLol,^[3] Funri^[4] and Uber Humor.^[5]

On November 1st, 2012, Tumblr user DirkStrider made a post^[8] containing the correct photoshop with the sun placed between the man’s fingers, along with the comment “THISPICTUREHADBEENBOTHERING ME FORFARTOOLONGTHEJOKE IS OVER”. As of November 19th of the same year, the post has gathered over 2,000 notes.