(Work in Progress)
About
Surprised Patrick is an exploitable image. It is inserted in images to denote shock or surprise, but is also used for purely decorative reasons as well.
Origin
In the 2004 movie, The Spongebob Squarepants Movie, a scene showed the character Patrick Star in a surprised state.
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The gif was then posted to reddit with the title “This just popped up in my news feed”. [2]
Spread
Within a few days of the original post, the twitter account @PatrickPics [3] was made to collect and tweet various Surprised Patrick pictures, along with a Surprised Pat tumblr.
Buzzfeed also covered Surprised Patrick. [1]
External Links
[1]Buzzfeed – Surprised Patrick Is Surprised By Everything On The Internet
[2]reddit – This just popped up in my news feed
[3]twitter @PatrickPics
[4]tumblr Surprised Pat