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Leonardo DiCaprio in the movie Django Unchained laughing while holding a glass of liquor

Leonardo DiCaprio Laughing

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Updated Nov 09, 2021 at 03:31AM EST by Autumn Able.

Added Aug 06, 2020 at 11:27AM EDT by Sophie.

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About

Leonardo DiCaprio Laughing is an image macro of Calvin Candie played by Leonardo DiCaprio in the 2012 film Django Unchained which features the character smiling while holding a drink. The image gained Photoshop edits starting in November 2017 and became a popular reaction image in August 2020 on Reddit.

Origin

On November 7th, 2017, Tumblr[2] user schuetzengrabenmints posted the earliest known usage of the image macro which added a monster energy drink (shown below). The post, captioned, "Get a load of this tumblr user. FRENCH!" that was a response to pianoplayersara saying she wished the national language was French, gained over 920 notes in three years.


schuetzengrabenmints: pianoplayersara: brosefvondudehomie: kompanie-mutter: | good thing America won the Revolutionary War or we'd all be speaking English Didn't we almost adopt German as the national language? I wish it were French. Get a load of this tumblr user. FRENCH!

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On January 29th, 2020, Redditor babyyoda1203 posted the image with DiCaprio holding a Dairy Queen Blizzard upside down captioned, "Dairy Queen employees be like" to r/dairyqueen[3] (shown below, left). On June 17th, Redditor SecretAgent9090 posted an unedited captioned version to r/dndmemes[4] and received over 40,400 points (96% upvoted) in two months (shown below, right).


upside down Dairy Queen Blizzard when your character has 19 intelligence but you, the player, dont so you have to fumble your way through pretending to sound smart

In early August the meme saw a resurgence on Reddit. On August 4th, Redditor MohammedAzees posted the image to r/dankmemes[5] captioned, "Mom: I deleted all your games in your PC * she actually deleted the desktop icons not the games * (shown below, left). The post accumulated over 25,300 points (96% upvoted) in two days. On August 5th, Instagram[6] user worstigaccount posted a variation that garnered over 5,400 likes in a day (shown below, right). StayHipp[1] published an article on the trend.


Mom:l deleted all your games in your PC *she actually deleted the desktop icons not the games* made with mematic When someone asks what time it is and you say "time for you to get a watch"

Various Examples


*Substitute Teacher hands out pop quiz* Me putting Hugh Janis as my name: Haters: He cant keep uploading quality content for over a decade pewds: big p Redditors after replying "i thought this was a rickroll" below rickroll comment so that next guy could get rickrolled Moms when they yell "Dinner's ready!" knowing it ain't even close Dads on Christmas when you open the gift they said they wasn't getting you waiting for to see the meme I texted him from across the room my husband @LIFEAND TIMESOFMOM

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External References

[1] StayHipp – Leonardo DiCaprio Laughing Django Unchained Memes

[2] Tumblr – major-jon

[3] Reddit – r/DairyQueen

[4] Reddit – r/dndmemes

[5] Reddit – r/dankmemes

[6] Instagram – worstigaccount

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