Change My Mind
Where it came from
A 2018 photo of Steven Crowder sitting at a folding table on a college campus with a sign that reads "Male privilege is a myth. Change my mind." The internet immediately wiped his text and put whatever they wanted there.
A guy sits at a folding table on a campus lawn with a sign that challenges passersby to change his mind about something. You replace the original text with whatever hill you're willing to die on. "Cereal is soup. Change my mind." "A hot dog is a sandwich. Change my mind." The whole bit is committing to an obvious bad take as if it's a bold philosophical stance.
The comedy is in how dead serious the setup looks — the table, the sign, the little coffee — versus how stupid whatever you put on the sign is. The more banal the take, the funnier it gets. It works because it's the perfect visual shorthand for "I am about to say something I am not going to back down from".
Still used constantly, mostly ironically. At this point nobody even remembers who the guy was and that's probably better for everybody.
Search interest, over time
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