About
Jared Leto’s Joker refers to the image reveal of the Joker, as portrayed by Jared Leto[1], in the upcoming live-action DC[2] movie Suicide Squad[3].
Origin
The original image was uploaded to Suicide Squad director David Ayer’s Twitter account on April 24, 2015 which garnered over 30,000 retweets and favorites.
The Suicide Squad wishes you a Happy Anniversary Mr. J! #Joker75#SuicideSquadWarnerBrosEnt</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/DCComics">DCComicspic.twitter.com/LZXz0x947Q
— David Ayer (@DavidAyerMovies) April 25, 2015Online Presence
Coverage
Over the next few days several news media sites would publish articles based around the image, such as Screen Rant[4], Rolling Stone[5], and The Washington Post[6].The same day an anonymous user created a thread about the image on “4chan’s”: /tv/ board[7]. The following day, Reddit user, mr_stevetighe posted a thread[8] on the r/movies subreddit to discuss the Joker image. Within a day the post gained over 7,000 comments of people discussing the image.
Parody Images
Following the reveal of the image many used the image in an exploitable fashion, as well as parodying the image in a more traditional sense
References
f1. Wikipedia – Jared Leto
[3]Wikipedia – Suicide Squad
[4]Screen Rant – ‘Suicide Squad’: Jared Leto’s Joker Officially Revealed
[5]Rolling Stone – Jared Leto Debuts Ghoulish ‘Suicide Squad’ Version of the Joker
[6]The Washington Post – ‘Suicide Squad’ First Look: Jared Leto kills it as the Joker
[7]4archive – JAREDLETO AS THEJOKER
[8]Reddit – First image of Jared Leto as the JOKER from David Ayer’s Suicide Squad