Norman Osborn: Father, Industrialist, Supervillain...meme? Osborn's been a meme since the summer of 2017, when the "You know, I'm something of a scientist myself" screenshot started to get abused on Reddit. The meme is seeing a bit of a renaissance right now, with redditors on r/dankmemes blacking out the quote to form new messages, basically the same idea as the Man of Culture memes that were so popular last year. We've rounded up some choice specimens. Because, you know, we're scientists.