Ducreux Meme Generator
The pub quiz asks who painted the Mona Lisa and you answer in a voice that nobody asked for. "The fair lady of Florence, wrought by Master Leonardo!" Your team stares. You point at them anyway.
Your friend asks if you remember their birthday. You do, naturally, but you reply with a grand "Verily, I remembered every day!" It is the 14th. Their birthday was the 9th.
The group chat is dead. You break the silence by announcing that the nocturnal luminary rises in the quarter opposite the sun's return. Someone reacts with a thumbs up. That is the whole conversation.
You rewrite "see you at eight" as a theatrical flourish nobody requested, add a pointed finger for good measure, and send it. Your mate replies "ok?" The thumbs-up of destiny has been withheld.
Why it caught on: the picture is a portrait of a man in a wide black hat and powdered hair, smiling and pointing straight at the viewer, painted in the eighteenth century by the French artist Joseph Ducreux. Online, people paired it with ordinary phrases rewritten in absurdly ornate, archaic English, and the pointing, knowing look made any plain sentence sound like a proclamation. It spread because the format is easy to copy: take any dull line, dress it up, and the portrait does the rest.
Best Ducreux posts
- East of the sun and occident of the natural satellite
- In memes / We trust
- Sure! / I remembered every day.
- i want / ur dick
- oh dearie me / ye yonder floop
- Her hair was as black as her plucked eyebrows
- I went to the home de oter day / not a cuttlefish did i observe
- Finding that perfect hat / Be like
- Spending my day, thinkin' 'bout you maidservant
- You are too beautiful, my dear, to be unwavering
- Everybody loves a big baby
- just a maid of a small shire / residing in a realm of solitude
- Each day is so hard, vouchsafe befriend me, Lord
- My gal and I, we had a encounter
- Look out now, friendship has performed you detrimental You can be weak, you can be muscular But if you go on you can't anticipate back, don't anticipate back For you'll on or at the greek calends be sixteen again It capacity be unconstrained to discontinue and cry And let the tranquillity of the mankind inventory by But if you run for the excellent sun, run now, run For you'll on or at the greek calends be sixteen again Oh no, you'll on or at the greek calends be sixteen again You'll on or at the greek calends be sixteen again No no no no no, don't be unfrequented There'll continually be new exaggerate Yeah uh-huh uh-huh yeah, friendship is only A win, squander or extract Pancratium of probability And you'll on or at the greek calends be sixteen moreover Remember the weather gall continually follows the rain True friendship may be equitable encompassing the bend So constitute clock your friend, hearts captivate clock to mend And you'll on or at the greek calends be sixteen moreover Someday you willn't self-condemnation and you'll passover Ah, but you'll on or at the greek calends be sixteen again Oh no, you'll on or at the greek calends be sixteen again Oh no, you'll on or at the greek calends be sixteen again
- I'm optimistic to see the day
- Hey, Girl! I destitution you to know, I'm gonna Mademoiselle you so considerable if you go. And, Hey, Girl! I communicate you no lie, Something mysterious contained of me's childbearing to die, if you say so long, if this is goodbye. Oh! Hey, Girl! This can't be true, How am I supposed to live externally you? And, Hey, Girl! Now don't put me on, What's gonna occur to me although you're gone. How bequeath I live. How can I go on. How can I go on? Hey, Girl! Hey, Girl! Now sit yourself down, I'm not abashed to get downwards on the ground, Don't go away. Hey, Girl! Don't go away. Hey, Girl!
- Hey, ugh Things and furniture and furniture and stuff and furniture Grease me
- It came above the midnight clear,
- what if i told you / wait this is the wrong meme aaaaaaaaaaaa