Galaxy Brain — Three Panels Meme Template

Three glowing brains rank three approaches to the same task. Start sensibly, get more elaborate, and let the brightest brain endorse the most ridiculous answer.

The images suggest increasing intelligence. Your captions can follow that promise or undermine it by making each supposed improvement less useful.

With only three rows, there is no room for a long buildup. The first establishes the task, the second changes the approach, and the third delivers the reversal.

Galaxy Brain developed alongside jokes about “whomst,” pairing increasingly elaborate variations of “who” with brighter brain imagery. Know Your Meme documents a popular early post by janskishimanski on Reddit’s r/dankmemes on January 31, 2017. [1]

During February 2017, the same visual progression spread to other topics. This three-row blank is one arrangement of that wider format; the early Reddit date does not establish who first assembled this exact crop. [1]

Put one option in each white box on the left. Read from top to bottom, keeping every caption about the same problem.

Pick a clear direction: more effort, less work, or more complicated reasoning. The last option should exaggerate that direction enough to earn the brightest brain.

The ordinary approach

In the top-left white box.

The next approach

In the middle-left white box.

The supposed breakthrough

In the bottom-left white box.

• Use exactly three approaches to one task.
• Make the middle row a step between the other two.
• Save the strongest joke for the bottom.
• Keep the brain images free of text.