How Can You Say Something So Brave Yet Controversial

Why Would You Say Something So Controversial Yet So Brave?

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Why Would You Say Something And so Controversial Even so So Brave? is a quote from The Eric Andre Evidence rendered in an paradigm macro and used as a reaction image on Tumblr humorously in response to relatively banal statements.

Origin

On the Season four, Episode seven episode of The Eric Andre Show, which aired September 23rd, 2016, Eric Andre interviews Bister Rose. During the interview, Andre reads a racist tweet and attributes it to Rose, and asks her why she would say something "and then controversial yet so dauntless." Rose never sent the tweet.

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A GIF of the moment was published to Imgur on December second, 2017.^[2]

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Later that month, the image began being used on Tumblr equally a reaction paradigm to relatively banal opinions. For example, on December 18th, 2017, Tumblr user fourleggedsandwich^[3] responded to a text postal service that read "america'southward funniest home videos episodes are but professional vine compilations" with the epitome. The mail service gained over 55,000 notes overall (shown below, left). On December 29th, Tumblr user crymosome^[iv] reblogged a series of text posts reversing normally paired words with the image. The post has gained over 312,000 notes (shown below, correct).

karkat-doodle-doo: maryaming: america's funniest home videos episodes are just professional vine compilations how could you do this Why would you say something so controversialfyet so brave? text

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Other posts turned the image into an exploitable, changing the text beneath Andre. For example, a mail past user cmder^[v] inverse the text into a cake recipe, gaining over 31,000 notes (shown below, left). Tumblr user Skamandmemes^[6] edited the text to simply read "Why?" in a text post that gained over 700 notes (shown below, right).