About
Oprah You Get a Car refers to a series of video remixes and advice animal image macros parodying the American talk show host Oprah Winfrey giving away cars to members of his television show audience.
Origin
On September 13th, 2004, Oprah gave away cars to the entire audience attending her show (shown below).
On May 15th, 2005, the giveaway was parodied in Season 1 Episode 12 of the stop motion animated television show Robot Chicken.
Spread
On March 22nd, 2008, YouTuber merese uploaded an animated parody of the car giveaway (shown below, left), gaining more than 29,000 views and 90 comments in the next five years. On April 24th, YouTuber Ryazilian uploaded a music remix of the giveaway footage (shown below, right), which received over 575,000 views and 900 comments in the following five years.
On December 25th, 2012, Redditor Lite_It_Up submitted a post titled “Merry Christmas everybody!” to the /r/AdviceAnimals[1] subreddit, which featured an image macro using a screen capture of Oprah accompanied by the caption “You get an upvote! / and you get an upvote! / and you get an upvote! / Everybody gets an upvote!” (shown below, left). Within three months, the post received over 700 up votes and 10 comments. On January 15th, 2013, Redditor BlankRuneWork submitted an image macro to the /r/AdviceAnimals[2] subreddit, joking about each of his children getting the flu (shown below, right). In the following two months, the post gained more than 8,500 up votes and 270 comments.
