r/bestof Feb 06 '13

[photoshopbattles] skibum607 photoshops the Unhelpful Mover Friend through History

/r/photoshopbattles/comments/17xyfd/the_unhelpful_mover/c89ucey
1.6k Upvotes

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u/jaksajak Feb 06 '13

on half of these there's nothing to move in the picture?

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u/MaeveningErnsmau Feb 06 '13

Most of the photoshoppers just tossed him in anywhere and everywhere. Some of these pictures at least involve him not providing aid when it's clearly needed, but most don't. Apparently few care. I don't find it funny in any event, but I share your being irked by a lack of internal consistency.

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u/lmxbftw Feb 06 '13

This one is gold, though: http://imgur.com/u7OOUHT

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u/Borkz Feb 06 '13

Gold, jerry.

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u/Miserygut Feb 07 '13

Is that because Jerry is Jewish? Anti-Semite.

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u/jaksajak Feb 06 '13

This one is along the lines of what I was referring to in my comment below...

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '13 edited Jun 01 '20

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u/Up_to_11 Feb 07 '13

I get it.

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u/dageekywon Feb 07 '13

"thats it boys MUNCH just a little more....almost there!*

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '13

God damn, that nearly had me in tears!

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u/jaksajak Feb 06 '13

I mean that's the joke, right? He's stands there while people struggle to move something, and in these cases it should be famous events through time. Something like this, for instance, the falling of the Berlin Wall, etc.

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u/MaeveningErnsmau Feb 06 '13

My mind immediately goes to Sisyphus. In short, yes, not to be cliché, but that'd be the joke (that was apparently missed in a mad dash for karma).

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '13

Because of the nature of Reddit top posts, the quality of a PSB is always lower as, say, on a forum, where your post will always be seen. If it takes you 5 hours to photoshop it probably won't be viewed.

That's why in every thread you see somebody rushing to make the -person running away from explosion- photoshop.

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u/theskabus Feb 06 '13

Bingo. Most PSB posts are done in ~10-15 minutes, the weekly battles are the ones that people spend more time on usually.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '13

Yeah, that is one of the flaws of the karma laws (something that was initially upvoted is likely to stay upvoted).

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u/LevGlebovich Feb 06 '13

I still, however, love the Nighthawks one.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '13

ITS UNHELPFUL MOVER GUY PHOTOSHOPPED INTO HAPPY LEONARDO DICAPRIO PICTURE, KARMA PLEZ!!!

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '13

Most of those are terrible. Quite the low bar for impressing people in that subreddit.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '13

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '13

As with almost every /r/photoshopbattles link posted on this sub, it's not that impressive if you visit the sub regularly. There's awesome stuff there everyday (and some awful 'shops too). I imagine that the people who post links to /r/bestof do it because they stumbled into /r/photoshopbattles for the first time and thought they had struck karma gold.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '13

Amen to that.

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u/theskabus Feb 06 '13

This might not be the best example, but there are some very talented photoshoppers in PSB. People upvote for creativity and effort, not just photoshop skill.

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u/LetMeStateTheObvious Feb 06 '13

As well, it's pretty impressive how many he did in such a short time.

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u/theskabus Feb 06 '13

That's another thing to note, most of the photoshops on PSB are done in 10-15 minutes for these daily threads, usually the weekly battles are where you see people taking more time on their shops.

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u/BobTehCat Feb 07 '13

I'm going to trust you on this because of disappearing obama

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u/theskabus Feb 07 '13

I'm also a mod of PSB, so there's that too. Partially due to that thread, I'm sure.

Edit: Also worth noting those obama spiderman shops were also 10-15 minute shops, took ~2.5-3 hours for all 10.

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u/deep_pants_mcgee Feb 06 '13

They kept the images in the thread in question, didn't repost them with [FIXED] in the title, and it was mostly OC?

Fuck it, upvotes for everyone, just for doing it right.

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u/theskabus Feb 06 '13

Yeah, that's how photoshopbattles works. You post shops to an image in the comments to the submission.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '13

You described the standard operation of that sub, nothing spectacular about that. It certainly doesn't deserve a best of, that's for sure.

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u/bloouup Feb 06 '13

Definitely better than I could ever do it, but from what I've seen from PSB in the past I was pretty disappointed.

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u/theskabus Feb 06 '13

It's no spiderman Obama.

shameless self promotion

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u/xylotism Feb 06 '13

10 pages. I went through 10 pages and didn't see a single Spiderman Obama.

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u/theskabus Feb 06 '13

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u/xylotism Feb 06 '13

I went through 10 pages of your profile looking for Spiderman Obama.

I feel like I might be doing this wrong.

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u/theskabus Feb 06 '13

Well it was like two months ago and I post every day...

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u/Dwells_Under_Bridges Feb 07 '13

Hey did you make the "Spiderman Obama"!!??

Nobody cares...you need to get over it.

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u/ciberaj Feb 06 '13

It's not really the quality but the originality. I've even seen some shops made with paint that were still funny as hell.

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u/phlegminist Feb 06 '13

But these pictures are not very original or funny either... Most of them have no joke, they are just the guy pasted into a picture where he doesn't belong.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '13

It isn't so much the skill but more so the situation.

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u/Lemonr Feb 06 '13

Agreed, 'Part XII' is quite despicable - I guess some of us have gone through such easy lives that they don't know or understand the harsh realities of war, either that or they've become desensitized to it.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '13

I'm not sure if this is allowed (sorry if it isn't), but I put them all into an album if you want to view them more easily.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '13

Really couldn't find him at the 9th photo

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u/R3m3mb3rM3 Feb 07 '13

bottom left. Like if you placed a 3*3 grid on the picture. It would be at the top of the 7th square

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '13

Well, thank you

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u/BabyK008 Feb 06 '13

Its like where's Waldo in black and white.

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u/GeorgieCaseyUnbanned Feb 06 '13

why wouldn't this helpful post be allowed?!

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '13

u wot m8

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u/thc1138 Feb 07 '13

This is what a smorgasbord of intellectual property laws, copyright regulations, online social norms and arbitrary "rules" on a subreddit do to a person. This poor man is so confused about what is right and what is wrong, what is allowed and what isn't, that he doesn't know whether he can put images in an album for easier viewing.

Destroy your mold, weej267! Free your mind. You are allowed to do anything you want (as long as you don't hurt another human), where you want and when you want. The world is your oyster and this is your day. Seize it!

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '13

I was just saying that because I wanted the original photoshoppers to get some credit. Thanks for calling me a "confused, poor man" though.

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u/thc1138 Feb 07 '13

It was a joke, bro...

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '13

If no one in the thread photoshopped him into Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, that's a serious missed opportunity.

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u/theskabus Feb 06 '13

Many people did.

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u/lmxbftw Feb 06 '13

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '13

The helmet is a nice touch.

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u/workyworkyworky Feb 06 '13

i can't believe there was no "building of the pyramids" pic he was shopped into...i'd do it myself but my photoshop skill is exactly 0

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u/Rvish Feb 06 '13

There are a couple, just not in that guys reply thread.

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u/amccaugh Feb 06 '13

Sounds like you've got more talent than most of the people in /r/photoshopbattles

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u/theskabus Feb 06 '13 edited Feb 06 '13

No, you basically see worky's exact comment in every single thread. Usually there are 4-5 comments like that, they all get removed.

Edit: This is what we get in every popular thread

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u/lenaro Feb 06 '13

Ugh. Why does photoshopbattles keep getting posted here?

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u/theskabus Feb 06 '13

It has original content, for one.

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u/lmxbftw Feb 06 '13

Because people keep upvoting it, which means that most people like seeing it.

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u/lenaro Feb 06 '13

It's because photoshopbattles are just a bunch of images.

Text posts are harder to read if you're the lowest common denominator reddit panders to.

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u/Brisco_County_III Feb 06 '13

Relative paucity of content partially caused by forbidding the default subreddits.

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u/r_slash Feb 06 '13

Haven't we seen this a million times? Guy gets photoshopped into every famous image ever?

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u/AramisAthosPorthos Feb 06 '13

Is he related to Ryan of fridge fame?

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u/shittysources Feb 06 '13

Of course he is.

Source: I'm an apple

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '13

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u/lustigjh Feb 06 '13

Free le karma

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '13

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u/lustigjh Feb 07 '13

It's been that time for a long time

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '13

Man... why oh why does he have to be wearing an NC State shirt?!? Sigh...

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u/icybains Feb 06 '13

Because go Wolfpack?

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u/foxh8er Feb 07 '13

If he was wearing a UNC shirt, he would probably be moving into his parent's house.

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u/doodie1983 Feb 06 '13

Meh. I thought these were going to be way funnier. A lot of the pictures just didn't make sense.

2

u/ProfessorEngel Feb 06 '13

i would have liked to see him in the backroom casting couch office

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u/THE_UPVOTER111 Feb 06 '13

This is really the best of Reddit? The best of Reddit? Come on, in most of these, the guy didn't even have to use Photoshop, he could've done it in MS paint.

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u/cathillian Feb 06 '13

What no flag raising at Iwo Jima?

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u/CptMisery Feb 06 '13

This does not deserve to be anywhere near the BestOf subreddit

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u/rev2sev Feb 06 '13

He's not being helpful in ANY of those photos.

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u/ThompsonBoy Feb 06 '13

Geez, I gotta start cashing in on photoshopbattles karma. Those would have been pitied attempts on Fark or Worth1000.

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u/THE_GR8_MIKE Feb 07 '13

Really milking those upvotes.

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u/SomeNormalGuy Feb 06 '13

Wow number 6 went there...

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u/Nackles Feb 06 '13

Tank Man killed me, and then I felt a little bad. Thank you for posting these, the photoshop battles are always very impressive.

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u/icybains Feb 06 '13

He's the Forrest Gump of lazy people.

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u/sockgag Feb 06 '13

PHOTOSHOP ? this isn't photoshop, this is paint. and its not even funny

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u/Abeneezer Feb 06 '13

... While showering everybody participating in karma.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '13

After I saw Part 1 I knew not to go any further.

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u/j1xwnbsr Feb 07 '13

Instant meme, just add pudding.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '13

This guy reaped so much karma from this.

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u/Farscape29 Feb 07 '13

Those are just plain brilliant.

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u/Init_4_the_downvotes Feb 07 '13

He has perfected the way to attain ass loads of comment karma

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '13

This. Is. Gold.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '13

I just realized I know the unhelpful mover.

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u/whitepoloshirt Feb 13 '13

I really wanna open the link but i'm at work and my boss' office is right behind my desk :/

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '13

This is the greatest series of pictures I've seen on Reddit since someone asked that guy how he took a picture of his camera.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '13

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u/CoolHandzLuke Feb 07 '13

no "Most of these are terrible" because almost all of the posts miss the point of the joke, which is that he is not helping to move various shit

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '13

No, the joke isn't to just put him in something famous.

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u/goldenretrievers Feb 06 '13

That was awesome, I am so glad you bought it to my attention. Thank you.

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u/joedude Feb 06 '13

ah so classic shit like this gets passed up??

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u/Attempt12 Feb 06 '13

the original two were so much better than all the other 'shops.

And don't you dare criticize for the downvotes will rain down from the skies.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '13 edited Apr 23 '20

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u/Bronzdragon Feb 06 '13

You can stil make it if you boot up photoshop now.

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u/lawyerdup Feb 06 '13

I was actually waiting for this one to come up. Then I saw you posted it, but with no shop :(