Wait, what? For real?

fiddles with some buttons

Adulthood doubles the frames: add one with no bench, and one with someone putting a bench in front of the child. The conclusion doesn’t change: it’s the kid’s fault for tripping over the bench. We just collectively ignore that the kid was fine until someone put a bench in the way.

So, all the uploaders deserve a ban?

Plot twist: the toddler has a multi-year marketing push worth tens if not hundreds of millions, which convinced a lot of people who don’t know the first thing about chess that it really is very impressive, and all those chess-types are just jealous.

Huh, I didn’t know people anyone even painted with baby oil.

My main is down, yo.

This came out in the wake of a different story, where Cobb County put stickers in the biology textbooks that warned that “evolution is just a theory.” So yes, while satire, it’s not as big of a stretch as it seems twenty (?!?) years later.

Damn I feel old.

As a bonus, I found a higher res version of the base image while trying to jog my memory.