About
Open the Gate! is an exploitable based off of a comic by the Belgian cartoonist Jeroom. While many edits are based off of a change of heart over something problematic, which was present in the original comic, other edits take a meta approach or focus on the relationship between the guards featured in the comic.
Origin
The original comic, which featured several guards discussing an approaching transgender woman, was published by Jeroom on February 27, 2013. The comic was translated into English and posted onto a Facebook page for translated Jeroom comics the next day.[1]
Spread
The day the original comic was posted, an unofficial translation was posted onto /r/funny, where it gained over 1,000 upvotes.[3] Some time afterward, said unofficial translation was posted onto 4chan, where users created various edits of it. An Imgur gallery of these edits was posted to the subreddit /r/4chan.[2]
Examples
