![Leonardo DiCaprio Laughing Leonardo DiCaprio in the movie Django Unchained laughing while holding a glass of liquor](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/mobile/000/034/858/Untitled-1.jpg)
Leonardo DiCaprio Laughing
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About
Leonardo DiCaprio Laughing is an image macro of Calvin Candie played by Leonardo DiCaprio in the 2012 film Django Unchained which features the character smiling while holding a drink. The image gained Photoshop edits starting in November 2017 and became a popular reaction image in August 2020 on Reddit.
Origin
On November 7th, 2017, Tumblr[2] user schuetzengrabenmints posted the earliest known usage of the image macro which added a monster energy drink (shown below). The post, captioned, "Get a load of this tumblr user. FRENCH!" that was a response to pianoplayersara saying she wished the national language was French, gained over 920 notes in three years.
![French? schuetzengrabenmints: pianoplayersara: brosefvondudehomie: kompanie-mutter: | good thing America won the Revolutionary War or we'd all be speaking English Didn't we almost adopt German as the national language? I wish it were French. Get a load of this tumblr user. FRENCH!](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/880/649/cd8.png)
Spread
On January 29th, 2020, Redditor babyyoda1203 posted the image with DiCaprio holding a Dairy Queen Blizzard upside down captioned, "Dairy Queen employees be like" to r/dairyqueen[3] (shown below, left). On June 17th, Redditor SecretAgent9090 posted an unedited captioned version to r/dndmemes[4] and received over 40,400 points (96% upvoted) in two months (shown below, right).
![Dairy Queen upside down Dairy Queen Blizzard](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/880/652/070.jpg)
![DND when your character has 19 intelligence but you, the player, dont so you have to fumble your way through pretending to sound smart](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/880/653/4f7.jpg)
In early August the meme saw a resurgence on Reddit. On August 4th, Redditor MohammedAzees posted the image to r/dankmemes[5] captioned, "Mom: I deleted all your games in your PC * she actually deleted the desktop icons not the games * (shown below, left). The post accumulated over 25,300 points (96% upvoted) in two days. On August 5th, Instagram[6] user worstigaccount posted a variation that garnered over 5,400 likes in a day (shown below, right). StayHipp[1] published an article on the trend.
![Mom Mom:l deleted all your games in your PC *she actually deleted the desktop icons not the games* made with mematic](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/880/655/1f4.jpg)
![It's Time When someone asks what time it is and you say "time for you to get a watch"](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/880/656/ab9.png)
Various Examples
![Hugh Janis *Substitute Teacher hands out pop quiz* Me putting Hugh Janis as my name:](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/880/657/d3d.jpg)
![Pewdiepie Haters: He cant keep uploading quality content for over a decade pewds: big p](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/880/658/b30.png)
![Rick Roll Redditors after replying "i thought this was a rickroll" below rickroll comment so that next guy could get rickrolled](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/880/660/c43.png)
![Dinner's Ready Moms when they yell "Dinner's ready!" knowing it ain't even close](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/880/661/231.jpg)
![Merry Christmas Dads on Christmas when you open the gift they said they wasn't getting you](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/880/662/623.jpg)
![Text waiting for to see the meme I texted him from across the room my husband @LIFEAND TIMESOFMOM](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/880/664/eee.jpg)
Templates
![Monster Template](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/880/650/c01.jpg)
![Template](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/880/651/374.png)
Search Interest
External References
[1] StayHipp – Leonardo DiCaprio Laughing Django Unchained Memes
[3] Reddit – r/DairyQueen
[4] Reddit – r/dndmemes
[5] Reddit – r/dankmemes
[6] Instagram – worstigaccount
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