![This is Relevant To My Interests This is Relevant To My Interests](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/square/000/000/021/relevant-to-my-interests.jpg)
This is Relevant To My Interests
About
"This is Relevant To My Interests" is an expression used to convey approval and enthusiasm over a given topic. It is most commonly used on media-sharing websites in the form of text-based comments or image macros featuring photographs of concerned-looking animals.
Origin
While the phrase is rumored to have originated on 4chan, its earliest archived use in an online discussion board was posted on the gaming enthusiast NeoGAF[2] forums by member Mr Jared on October 21st, 2005. In the thread, Mr Jared expressed his approval of a Japanese adult video (JAV) for the console video game series Rumble Roses by saying "This is relevant to my interests."
Spread
On November 16th, 2006, Flickr[3] user "the boy on his bike" uploaded a LOLcat image macro featuring a photograph of a cat sitting at what looks like a console with the caption "This is relevant to my interests" to a gallery of 4chan-related images. As of July 10th, 2012, the user has since deleted their account.
![eab.jpg This is relevant to my interests](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/347/473/eab.jpg)
On September 18th, 2006, an entry for "Relevant to my Interests" was created on the Internet culture wiki Encyclopedia Dramatica.[5] On January 11th, 2007, the original cat image macro was reposted to the LOLCat website I Can Has Cheezburger.[1] On June 30th, 2008, Urban Dictionary[7] user Fablic Kurac submitted a definition for "RTMI", defining it as an abbreviated version of the LOLcat meme "relevant to my interests." On July 11th, 2008, I Can Has Cheezburger[10] published an image macro of a cat with a pizza box with the caption "Dis pizza / iz relavint / 2 mai intrsts" (shown below).
![af2.jpg DIS PIZZA Z RELAUINT 2 MALINTRSTS CANHASCHEEZEURGER.COM](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/347/530/af2.jpg)
On November 15th, 2009, a Facebook[6] page titled "Joining Pages That Are Relevant to my Interests" was created, which accumulated over 390 likes within three years. On October 8th, 2011, the "Relevant2MyInterests" Tumblr[8] blog was launched, which predominately highlighted photographs of scantily clad women. On December 1st, a t-shirt with the original cat image macro (shown below, left) was released on the online retailer website Zazzle.[9] On June 18th, 2012, the Internet humor site Memebase[11] posted a Bear Grylls image (shown below, right) with the title "This is Relevant to my Interests."
![c5c.jpg This is relevant to my Interests](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/347/521/c5c.jpg)
![295.jpg 3, SUPER Di LASINPESUNESTE MEMEBASE.co](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/347/538/295.jpg)
Notable Examples
![128875590863673614.jpg This is relevant tomyinterests](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/019/239/128875590863673614.jpg)
![relevant_to_my_interests1.jpg This to interests](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/000/404/relevant_to_my_interests1.jpg)
![1249355547045.jpg THIS IS RELEVANT TO MY INTERESTS](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/008/288/1249355547045.jpg)
![ThisIsRelevantCrazy.jpg Thisis relevant to my interests](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/012/030/ThisIsRelevantCrazy.jpg)
![Relevant_to_interests_hedgehog.jpg Why, yes! This IS relevant to mv interests!](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/000/235/Relevant_to_interests_hedgehog.jpg)
![thisthreadis128483904188593750.jpg this thread is relavent to my interests](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/019/246/thisthreadis128483904188593750.jpg)
Search Interest
Search query volume for the keywords "this is relevant to my interests" began rising in April of 2007 and experienced their first major peak in June, coinciding with a peak in popularity of Caturday.
External References
[1] I Can Has Cheezburger – This is relevant to my interests
[2] NeoGAF – Rumble Roses spawns its own JAV
[4] Encyclopedia Dramatica – Relevant to my interests
[5] Wayback Machine – Encyclopedia Dramatica Revision History
[6] Facebook – joining pages that are relevant to my interests
[8] Tumblr – Relevant2MyInterests
[9] Zazzle – Relevant to My Interests
[10] I Can Has Cheezburger – Dis Pizza
[11] Memebase – This is Relevant to My Interests
Top Comment
Nintendork64
Jul 11, 2011 at 03:25PM EDT