{"id":"unknown-pleasures","name":"Unknown Pleasures","summary":"The Unknown Pleasures album cover, Peter Saville's 1979 sleeve for Joy Division's debut record, became one of the most recognizable images in post-punk before escaping the album entirely to live online as an exploitable template. By the early 2010s, the stacked pulsar waves showed up on Disney merchandise, Tumblr parody shirts, and listicles, turning a radio astronomy diagram into a go-to meme format.","tags":["unknown pleasures","joy division","peter saville","pulsar","cp 1919","meme","exploitable","mickey mouse shirt"],"howToUse":[],"imageCount":6,"nsfw":false,"images":[{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/unknown-pleasures/unknown-pleasures-joy-division-unknown-pleasures-cover.webp","caption":"The original Joy Division Unknown Pleasures (1979) cover art, featuring Peter Saville's visualization of pulsar CP 1919 radio emissions.","width":800,"height":450,"nsfw":false},{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/unknown-pleasures/unknown-pleasures-unknown-pleasures-album-scan.webp","caption":"Album cover scan of Joy Division's 1979 debut Unknown Pleasures, the source image behind the meme.","width":597,"height":600,"nsfw":false},{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/unknown-pleasures/unknown-pleasures-what-is-this-tumblr-tshirt.webp","caption":"A joke tee lampooning younger fans who recognize the Unknown Pleasures art from Tumblr rather than Joy Division.","width":500,"height":466,"nsfw":false},{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/unknown-pleasures/unknown-pleasures-redacted-document-preorders-tweet.webp","caption":"A 2024 topical joke swapping the Unknown Pleasures art for the redacted Diddy indictment document.","width":680,"height":711,"nsfw":false},{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/unknown-pleasures/unknown-pleasures-depeche-mode-boys-dont-cry-shirt.webp","caption":"A joke 'wrong band' shirt attributing the Joy Division artwork to Depeche Mode and The Cure's 'Boys Don't Cry'.","width":500,"height":500,"nsfw":false},{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/unknown-pleasures/unknown-pleasures-recursive-unknown-pleasures-shirt.webp","caption":"A recursive meta t-shirt showing a photo of someone wearing an Unknown Pleasures tee.","width":509,"height":509,"nsfw":false}],"historyUrl":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/unknown-pleasures/history.md","related":["jaws-poster-parodies","surprised-pikachu","music-genre-tier-list","is-this-a-pigeon","whats-your-type","keep-calm","change-my-mind","wait-thats-illegal","two-buttons","evil-kermit","confused-travolta","disaster-girl"],"popularityRank":3688,"license":"Meme images and history: templates, screenshots, photos and fan edits, many of copyrighted material or real people. Explicit and offensive memes and images are included and flagged nsfw. Check you have the right to use an image before publishing."}