Protegent Antivirus' "Yes"

About

Protegent Antivirus' "Yes" refers to a still image of a 3D-animated man experiencing computer issues taken from a 2016 commercial for Protegent Antivirus. The image, captioned "Yes," has been used online as a reaction, with the implied meaning of "yes" often being "many" or "every single one."

Origin

On September 9th, 2016, Indian software company Unistal uploaded a commercial for its antivirus software Protegent to YouTube (original commercial removed, reupload shown below).^[1] In the animated commercial, a mustached man wearing an orange suit experienced computer issues, with Protegent mascot Proto recommending him to use the software.

- Oops, my system crashed! I lost my data. But I had an antivirus!
- Antivirus is not enough! You need Protegent: the world's only antivirus with data recovery software!

Spread

On August 19th, 2019, Redditor Foliblox used a reaction image from the commercial captioned "Yes," with the post receiving over 88,300 upvotes in three months (shown below).^[2]

In the following months, the image saw moderate spread on Reddit as a reaction, with "yes" interpreted as "many" or "every single one." For example, a September 9th, 2019, post by Redditor dcxr received over 33,100 upvotes in two months (shown below, left).^[3] An October 17th, 2019, post by Redditor Arsene_Lupine_The_7th accumulated over 41,400 upvotes in one month (shown below, right).^[4]

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