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		MostAwesomeDude on July 1, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Reddit sleuths who brought down a meme empire Image macros come from Japanese message boards; they are not really related to the faux motivational posters that are commonly known as "demotivationals".

astrange on July 1, 2013 [–]

Image macros came from SomethingAwful, although even then it was only a brief period where they were actual "macros".

Japanese sites don't even let you embed images. Everyone uses ASCII art (actually SJIS of course).

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