On August 3rd, 2010, photographer Chris Clanton posted a photoset of real life Deal With It GIFs, complete with falling sunglasses. The same day, the single serving site was created, which features a variation of the "smug dog" animated GIF. The web culture blog Urlesque posted an article on the GIF trend, citing Dump.fm as a source of the GIFs, on July 25th. It was amplified when Tumblr users Greg Rutter and Brad O'Farrell reblogged the post. On Tumblr, the meme began spreading when Dump.fm admin jertronic posted a GIF to his personal blog on June 4th. I put the photoshop template I made online and people were making them with that I think. That Something Awful duck hunt dog had been around for a while and myself and jertronic and some others started making our down versions of it to be funny, and then it just sort of took off.
#Pac man meme series#
Ryder Ripps, dump.fm site producer, cited the Something Awful dog image as the inspiration for the GIF series in an interview with Know Your Meme:
In June of 2010, animated GIFs with dropping sunglasses were popularized on the media sharing website Dump.fm, which promoted a "deal with it" GIF contest one month prior. In December 2008, a graphic of Pac-Man captioned with "I'm Atheist / deal with it" was uploaded to, described as "the source of the 'deal with it' meme" (shown below). On SomethingAwful, the catchphrase is often used in the web forums and is where the "smug dog" animated GIF (shown right) originated but the date it was added is currently unknown.
In mid-late 2005, Matt Furie, creator of Feels Good Man, posted a webcomic (shown left) on MySpace using the phrase. The Idioms and Expressions online database entry for "deal with it" defines it as a means of promoting acceptance. "Deal with it" as a colloquial phrase has unknown origins.
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