They performed Button's singles program side-by-side with minor modifications and won. He was also skating pairs, and competed with Barbara Jones in junior pairs at the 1946 Eastern States Championships. In 1945, his third year of serious skating, he won the Eastern States senior title and the national junior title. In 1944, he won the Eastern States junior title which earned him the opportunity to compete at the National Novice Championships. In his first competition, the 1943 Eastern States Novice Championship, Button finished second to Jean-Pierre Brunet. Career Amateur įor jump abbreviations, see Figure skating jumps. He began skating at an early age but did not begin training seriously until the age of 12, after his father overheard him being told he would never be a good skater. He graduated in 1947 from the Englewood School for Boys (now Dwight-Englewood School). Early life īutton was born and raised in Englewood, New Jersey. He 'brought increased athleticism' to figure skating in the years following World War II. He also invented the flying camel spin, which was originally known as the 'Button camel'. Button is credited as having been the first skater to successfully land the double Axel jump in competition in 1948, as well as the first triple jump of any kind – a triple loop – in 1952. He is also the only non-European man to have become European champion. He is a two-time Olympic champion (1948, 1952) and five-time consecutive World champion (1948–1952). On December 11th, Reddit user hardikupreti posted a version of the meme to /r/dankmemes, garnering over 24,000 upvotes and 20 Reddit awards (shown below, right).Richard Totten Button (born July 18, 1929) is an American former figure skater and skating analyst. By early December, versions of the meme began finding success on Reddit. On November 12th, Twitter user memessss28 posted a new version of the meme to Twitter garnering over 150 retweets and 450 likes in a month (shown below, left). On the same day ShaboomBanana posted the first new version of the meme to Twitter (shown below, right).

On the same day they posted the image to /r/MemeEconomy.

On November 11th, 2020, visual artist Petirep posted, 'I made a new iteration of the classic 'sweaty button pressing' meme' to Twitter, along with an original drawing of the Daily Struggle image where the character is pressing both buttons at once in the first panel, and giving a thumbs-up while smiling in the second (shown below, left). Prior to being archived, the post gathered more than 3,500 votes (80% upvoted) and 370 comments. On June 23rd, Redditor slapkunts posted a version of the comic representing the man as a 'proud liberal' and editing the button labels to read 'cops are evil and racist' and 'you don't need a gun because you have police' to /r/Libertarian (shown below, right). On March 29th, a variation of the comic titled 'Tumblr's dilemma' in which the two buttons were labeled 'People can be born as the wrong gender' and 'Gender is a social construct' was submitted to /r/funny, where it garnered upwards of 4,400 votes (85% upvoted) and 775 comments before it was archived (shown below, left).

On February 20th, Redditor reposted the original comic to /r/funny, where it gathered upwards of 2,000 votes (80% upvoted) and 40 comments prior to being archived. Meanwhile, a GIF of the comic was submitted to Imgur, in which the 'Be a Dick' button is pressed repeatedly (shown below). In the coming hours, Redditor AcerRubrum posted the same Imgur submission to r/funny, where it received 3738 points (91% upvoted) and 117 comments prior to being archived. On Februthe comic was submitted to Imgur by user Robban39 under the title 'Daily Struggle' and has been viewed over 1,275,000 times.

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