About
If You See This Image, also known as If You See This Image While Scrolling or You Have Been Visited, is an exploitable consisting of images of various internet celebrities and other characters with a variation of the message “If you see this image while scrolling the first page…” superimposed. Used in forums like 4chan, the exploitable promises the viewer some sort of happiness if they reply with the keyword provided below the image. The exploitable is similar to the ASCII copypastas you have been visited by the spooky skeleton and Le Toucan.
Origin
The first known example of the meme was created after the death of popular bodybuilder and model Aziz “Zyzz” Sergeyevich Shavershian. A character, “The Zyzz Bird Of Happiness” was created on the 4chan board /fit/, dedicated to fitness and bodybuilding.[1]
The exploitable featuring Zyzz bird was created and posted on /fit/ and other weightlifting boards, like Bodybuilding.com], sometime in the beginning of the summer of 2012. The Zyzz Bird of Happiness fan page was created on August 1st, 2012.
Spread
On December 3rd, 2012, the first known instance of the image without a picture of Zyzz Bird was posted on the gaming forums of IGN.com[4]. The photo had been swapped to feature “Big Richard”, with a new reward for scrolling.
The convention spread throughout 4chan and other forums, including on /b/, for which archives are unavailable.
Various Examples
Search Interest
External References
[2]Bodybuilding.com – Zyzz Bird of Happiness
[3]Facebook – Zyzz Bird of Happiness Fan Page