![]() The post was widely circulated in the following days. ![]() On April 2nd, Twitter user posted the first viral tweet that used the format, captioning the image "Pooping: / Peeing." The post received over 180 retweets and 1,400 likes in one week (shown below, right). Prior to receiving a large surge in popularity in April 2021, the image was used by Redditor Slight_Highlight1929 in a meme about Boruto that received over 170 upvotes in nine days (shown below, left). The post gained over 70 retweets and 1,400 likes in one month. The side-by-side image did not see further use in memes until mid-March 2021, when on March 17th Twitter user posted a football meme based on the photograph, making a joke about football club Atletico's performance (shown below, right). On April 13th, 2017, Instagram page breakinbadfeed posted the earliest known meme based on the images, a Pictures of People Before and After Calling Them Beautiful meme that gained over 10,000 likes in four years (shown below, left). The images were later used in several articles about Norris and reposted by Breaking Bad fan pages, including a now-unavailable post by the Facebook group Best of Breaking Bad. ![]() On July 14th that year, Norris posted the photographs to his Twitter and Instagram, with the photographs being cropped in the Instagram post (Twitter post and non-cropped image shown below). ![]() Prior to July 14th, 2014, photographer Marco Grob posted several photographs of actor Dean Norris, best known for his role as Hank Schrader in the television series Breaking Bad, to his website, including side-by-side photographs of Norris smiling and putting on an expression of displeasure, with the lighting used to enhance actor's emotions. ![]()
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