You Just Enjoyed One of Hitler's Artworks

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Here, take a break from all the corona virus memes and enjoy this painting. Good job, you just enjoyed a painting by Adolf Hitler.

That's a pretty good painting, right? You just enjoyed one of Adolf Hitler's artworks

That's a pretty good painting, right? You just enjoyed a pretty good painting

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You Just Enjoyed One of Hitler's Artworks is an image macro series featuring various photographs with a top caption asking the viewer "That's a pretty good painting, right?", followed by a bottom caption revealing that they had "just enjoyed one of Adolf Hitler's artoworks."

Origin

On September 27th, 2010, The Telegraph reported that a collection of paintings made by "Adolf Hitler": were being sold auction later that month. The article included a picture of a watercolor painting showing a staircase outside of a home (shown below, left). On March 2nd, 2013, FunnyJunk^[1] user trollypollyz uploaded the painting along with the caption "That's a pretty good painting, right? / You just enjoyed one of Adolf Hitler's artworks" (shown below, right). Within four years, the post gained over 59,000 views and 1,500 points.

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The following day, Redditor coledog22 reposted the image to /r/funny,^[4] where it gathered upwards of 1,000 points (83% upvoted) and 600 comments prior to being archived. On March 25th, 2014, the image was reposted to FunnyJunk^[6] along with a screenshot of a Facebook user commenting "I did nazi that coming." On February 26th, 2015, the "No, you piece of shit" Facebook^[7] page posted a picture of an anime character captioned with the Hitler's artwork copypasta (shown below).

On December 27th, 2016, the ShitpostBot 5000 Facebook^[3] page posted a version of the image featuring a portrait photograph of YouTuber Jon Jafari (shown below). Within five months, the post gained over 2,800 shares and 2,000 reactions. On March 5th, 2017, Twitter user @Frektelfelms^[5] submitted a painting of a Counter-Strike map with the "Nice painting, right?" caption (shown below). Within two weeks, the tweet garnered more than 3,500 likes and 1,000 retweets.