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About
Bedtime Paradox is an exploitable comic. In it, a son asks his father to tell him a paradox to help him get to sleep. The father does, and the son increasingly panics until he falls asleep.
Origin
The original comic (below, left) was posted June 15th, 2011,[1] on the Gunshow website.[2] Roughly two years later, on September 10th, 2013,[3] the first known edit of it (below, right) was posted by Tumblr user claxdio-fx.[4] It was in Spanish, and changed the paradox. It obtained over 1,000 notes in about 2 years.
SON: Dad, I’m still not sleepy.
SON: Can you tell me a…
SON: Sleeping paradox!
FATHER: What would happen if pinocchio said:
“My nose will grow”?
Spread
On May 12th, 2014, FunnyJunk user fridayiminlove posted a compilation of edits to the comic.[5] It received over 25,000 views and 533 score in about 2 years. In the comments of that image, that day and the next day, two templates (below) were posted.[6] The first gained nearly 50 score in about 2 years.
Later, on August 18th, 2014, the same image but cropped some was uploaded to Imgur by user Loppervintsy.[7] It received over 11,000 points and 600,000 views in about 2 years.
Various Examples
Search Interest
External References
[1]Gunshow – Gunshow Comic Archive / Accessed August 5th, 2016
[2]Gunshow – Bedtime Paradox / June 15th, 2011
[3]Tumblr – Posts for claxdio-fx on September 9th, 2013 / September 9th, 2013
[4]Tumblr – First known edit / September 9th, 2013
[5]FunnyJunk – Bedtime Paradox Compilation / May 12th, 2014
[6]FunnyJunk – Comments for Bedtime Paradox Compilation / May 13th, 2014
[7]Imgur – Bedtime Paradox Compilation / August 18th, 2014