About
“It is a mystery” is a video of a ghost with a cheery tune playing in the background. The image is typically posted as a reaction image.
Origin
“It is a mystery” is based off of a Something Awful emote, which was added along with the other emotes back in 2010. The emote became popular after an nsfw image from the /z/ board on 4chan was taken down, and was instead replaced with a link to an image of “it is a mystery”.
Spread
The video was made after the /z/ image was taken down and featured the ghost with a cheery tune in the background. The image and video later became reactions to mysterious things. The image later mutated into other examples such as “mystery solved”.
Notable Examples
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Search Interest
External References
WIP The meme is old and the only guidance I have is an ED article. Yay.