"Afraid to Ask" Andy
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About
“Afraid to Ask” Andy is an advice animal image macro series featuring a still image of Andy Dwyer (played by Chris Pratt), one of the main characters from the American TV sitcom Parks and Recreation, captioned with various confessions of one’s ignorance in current events or common knowledge followed by the phrase "…and at this point I’m afraid to ask.”
Origin
The caption stems from a memorable quote uttered by Andy Dwyer, who is portrayed as an oblivious but lovable city worker in the fictional town of Pawnee, in Season 6 Episode 16 “A New Slogan”[5] originally aired on March 13th, 2014.
On October 23rd, 2014, Redditor john_solo76 created a post titled “Afraid to Ask Andy – Reddit is hard to follow sometimes”, featuring a photo of Dwyer with the caption “I don’t know what GamerGate is / And at this point I’m too afraid to ask” (shown below). In the first 24 hours, the post gained over 3,800 upvotes and 2,000 comments on the /r/AdviceAnimals[2] subreddit.
Spread
On the same day, Redditor silkysmooth190 submitted an Afraid to Ask Andy image macro expressing ignorance about net neutrality to /r/AdviceAnimals[4] (shown below, left). On October 24th, 2014, Redditor I_Am_Batman_For_Real posted an Afraid to Ask Andy image macro joking about the online fandoms for actor Nicolas Cage to /r/AdviceAnimals.[3] In less than 24 hours, the posts received more than 3,300 votes (87% upvoted).
The same day, the tech news blog Mashable[1] published an article highlighting several notable examples from the series.
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[1] Mashable – Afraid to Ask Andy Meme Perfectly Captures Your Insecurities
[2] Reddit – Afraid to Ask Andy
[3] Reddit – Afraid to Ask Andy – Ive been on Reddit awhile and still I still dont know
[4] Reddit – Afraid to ask Andy
[5] SpringfieldSpringfield – Parks and Recreation Episode Scripts – New Slogan
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Crimeariver
>New advice animal
>Frontpage
>Created by Don
Paulie DeMafia Mk2
Oct 24, 2014 at 02:54PM EDT in reply to unosblade
Don is the memegod of the internet. We are all part of his grand design and that is to meme on everything that ever existed, currently exists and shall exist in the future. Only then will the crucible collapse and his ascension into godhood shall be complete!
On his free time though, he is one of the admins on KYM. He has documented many advice animals and some hashtags. People got angry at him for doing that.
I think that now complaining about “Don making an Advice Animal article” has become more tongue in cheek.
(I could be wrong though)
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