The world witnessed the birth of a brand new meme on Sunday.
It all started when Redditor cox-in-fox posted a photo of his wife happily running away from their baby propped up on a hay bale. He explains that the mother was trying to get out of the way of a photo, because every parent can understand how difficult it can be to get that perfect picture with a young kid.
Credit: cox-in-fox/Reddit But the photo was too good for the internet to leave alone, and the thread quickly turned into an impromptu Photoshop battle. Eventually someone posted the photo to the subreddit r/PhotoshopBattles and things really took off from there.
Thankfully, someone fixed the photo by just pulling the mother out completely.
Credit: Incontrol_is_mad/Reddit The photo got its very own movie poster.
The happy mom was Photoshopped into a bunch of running scenarios.
Credit: Rustyramrod/Reddit Run, Forest, Run.
Credit: hanky1979/Reddit Then things got a little dark.
Credit: bmmarti3/Reddit Don't worry though, this masterpiece made up for any negativity.
Credit: unclegut/Reddit Of course, the bubbles girl made a cameo.
Credit: whatshisuserface/Reddit As did In The Way Guy.
Credit: hatgineer/Reddit Then someone placed the mother in the original In The Way Guy meme.
Credit: timmy16744/Reddit And things got real meta with Strutting Leo.
Credit: Androob/Reddit Eventually the photo became a "best of" for ridiculous memes.
In the original thread, the mother describes how the whole situation went down.
Comment from discussion Funny picture of my wife running to get out of baby picture..