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The last one refilling detergent is a parody of The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer; everyone has seen it on textbooks and it has become a meme template on Japanese Twitter in recent years.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Milkmaid_(Vermeer)

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I heartily recommend "Tim's Vermeer": https://youtube.com/watch?v=94pCNUu6qFY

I found this discussion (French but with subtitles) of the painting interesting, since it highlights an often-missed aspect of the painting.

https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/092036-004-A/look-but-don-t-to...

Thank you, I was confused by what simply appeared to be a picture of someone doing laundry.

I mean, that's a tough idea. That's literally just a picture of someone pouring detergent, not an actual costume. Would have to say this one is pretty lame...

Just have to ask, how do you know this???

This will be one of those things where if you are very familiar with Vemeer, you’ll understand the reference.

I was watching the new Street Fighter movie and I was wondering who is Joe? But actually a funny reference.

It's in Japanese school textbooks. I don't remember if it was in art or world history class, but a lot of people have seen it and/or had to be able to fill it in the blanks from multiple choices. It's also a memorable work of art, so it's famous to those Japanese and terminally online. I agree that this can be a bit more obvious, though.

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