Guess I’ll Die

Guess I’ll die is a popular meme, derived from a stock photo, depicting a man shrugging his shoulders, while looking at the camera.

Online, the stock photo became viral as a reaction image macro, which would be utilized by users to joke about dying at the slightest hindrance.

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The stock photo depicts Mike Baldwin, and it was first uploaded to iStockphoto by his wife, Ann Baldwin on October 6^th, 2009.

The first case of the photo being turned into a photoshopped meme can be traced to a Fark forum thread, where a sloth’s head was edited to the model’s face, paired with captions about the everyday dangers in a sloth’s life.

The image would occasionally see use as a meme in 2013, as it would emerge on sites like Funnyjunk, Meme Generator.

It first gained a larger traction on Tumblr in 2015, as it would be regularly posted with various texts.

The phrase “Guess I’ll die” started to be captioned on the stock photo in early 2016, as it would appear on Facebook.

By 2017, its popularity grew significantly, as it emerged on numerous Reddit threads, while remaining a frequently posted meme on Tumblr.

In 2018, the meme’s popularity reached its peak, with “Guess I’ll die” image macros appearing on Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, Instagram, 9GAG and Imgur.

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