The Second Marvel Of Mars

(Okay, technically it’s a toy vehicle show…)

Looks pretty vintage!

Please actually do it ❤

and it seems like it spread around a lot of Russian URLs. The first time I can find it with an “intelligence” panel, it looks like this and was posted to a blog page in spanish:

The series of panels then evolves into this:

and finally gets a conspiracy theory panel on a .pl website

and doesn’t seem to turn into the recognizable 6 panel form ending in conspiracy theory until it’s posted to imgur in 2020.

Now Gaping Void is like. Some sort of business image creation website. The seems to have existed since 2014, and claims to have created the original 2 panel comic seen here, which also bears their @, which has been in use on twitter since 2008. IDK how to describe them, they make bland motivational images you see businesses using. They’ve created a 6-panel version of their original 2 panel drawing, and it looks like this:

As far as I can tell, what happened is that this business account made a little comic that was just vague enough to get chewed up and regurgitated all over the internet in multiple different forms, before at one point getting a star of david slapped on it by a random user on imgur who was pppprobably actually implying that jews really were the root of bad things? Because “it’s all the jews fault” was kind of a meme for a while, before things got fashy and that sentiment became disturbingly sincere(as opposed to disturbingly blase about a real group of people).

And then they removed the original watermark and slapped their own creaky watermark on it, which led nowhere because they were just some guy editing stuff on imgur.

And then a tumblr user decided that it was actually dire social commentary, and you’re antisemetic if you don’t use the version of the comic imagined by one imgur guy that blamed jewish people for conspiracy theories. Which was just one in a long line of these 2 panels getting endlessly recycled since 2014 at least.