About
“Get A Load of This Guy” are a series of reaction images most often aimed at another person, usually used to make fun of the person or quality of his/her recent posts.
Origin
Probably of most widely used example of the image originated from a scene in the 1992 American comedy film Wayne’s World[4], where the titular character Wayne looks directly at the camera and the subtitles “Get-A-Load of this Guy Cam” pop up.
Spread
The screencap of the scene (pictured below) has been used as a reaction image on various image boards. The archives show that it had already been in use on 4chan as of August 17th, 2010[1].
In time, similar derivatives were created including an image macro of Patrick Bateman (more widely known as the Dubs Guy) from the film American Psycho(pictued below, left). Earliest archived examples date back to January 12th, 2011[2]. Another popular derivative image macro contains the character Ross Geller from a TV show Friends(pictured below, right). Earliest archived post of it had been from March 31th, 2011[3].
Various Examples
Search Interest
External References
[1]archive.moe – Oldest Examples
[2]archive.moe – Get-A-Load Dubs Guy
[3]archive.moe – Get-A-Load Ross
[4]IMDB– Wayne’s World