# The Tanner Wall Of Dropbox

URL: https://tannergodarzi.com/blog/the-tanner-wall
Published: 2026-10-11

# The Tanner Wall Of Dropbox

Eons ago during my time at Dropbox, our office at 333 Brannan Street had great furniture and bare walls after an early 2016 move-in.

It was a cozy place, full of nooks and crannies, with a library that felt like another world—a pink one. We moved in, settled down, and made our desks our own. The walls stayed bare.

Being a wannabe rebel, I started printing memes and leaving them around the office. One featured Glenn Danzig, formerly of the Misfits, carrying cat food while trying to look as punk as possible.

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An occasional motivational poster or event announcement went up, but there was still an overwhelming amount of empty wall.

## The Lore

Around Christmas, when most of the office was empty, I started printing Photoshopped (in the ye olde days before AI made this a one-click affair and you actually need to know how realistic image manipulation) photos of myself. I wanted to see how long something so out of place could survive.

On one wall, a photo lasted only a few hours.

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In a more secluded corner, another lasted a day.

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On a concrete wall, a photo lasted a day. Then another day. And another. So I added another photo.

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I left for the holidays. When I returned in the new year, the photos were still there. They had survived several office cleanings.

I was unsure what to do. My meme-mantic antics had gotten ahead of me. A few people had noticed and some asked if that was my face on the wall to which I said “no” to add further complexity. After a week, I decided to build the Tanner Wall.

So where did this come from? My team at Dropbox loved to Photoshop — yes in the good ‘ol days before AI made everyone a master image manipulator and serious artistry was required to do this right — each other in random locations or scenes. I contributed a template of my face with that perfect neutral, absent, 10 foot stare that begs itself to be slapped on to something else.

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Eventually Tanner Wall became canonized on office tours. New hires and visitors would unintentionally make a pilgrimage coerced into the occasional selfie. 

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## Building Tanner Wall
Over the next six months, Tanner Wall was built out with one new Photoshopped picture every few days. 

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_Somehow_ the original Photoshop Template worked its way into the company Dropbox serving as creative inspiration for a few photos.

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At one point rumors of my demise circled the office (I was in Palm Springs for a week) and Tanner Wall turned into a memorial shrine. I was deeply confused but equally moved when I returned. Many other Dropboxers were more confused I returned to the land of the living.

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## The Final Tanner Wall

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Who (or what) was I Photoshopped on to? From left to right and top to bottom:
- Harrison Ford as Han Solo
- Tony Iommi
- Windows XP Bliss wallpaper
- The Mona Lisa
- Sean Spicer’s tie
- Anthrax’s album “Among The Living” cover
- My teammate Connor’s Facebook profile photo
- RoboCop
- Amy Poehler of Parks and Rec
- Ed Harris of Westworld
- Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (film)
- Smash Mouth
- The Chicago Bulls
- Ed Harris (again)
- Ted Cruz
- A Centaur
- Hillary Clinton
- Photoshop Template
- Arnold Schwarzenegger of Conan The Barbarian 
- Glenn Danzig
- George Bush trapped in a rain poncho
- The Titanic movie poster
- Astronaut
- Christian Bale in American Psycho
- Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia
- Amon Amarth
- My friend’s ex-boyfriend who was a jerk
- Adam Driver from Star Wars
- Buzz Aldrin
- Kendall Jenner
- Unknown figure in a painting
- Brad Pitt in Troy
- ET in ET
- Guy Fieri
- Deafheaven
- Taylor Swift
- Rodrigo Santoro in 300
- TOOL
- Sculpture of Caesar
- Dave Mustaine
- Jesus
- RoboCop parody
- Megadeth (again)
- Hannah Montana

## RIP Tanner Wall December 2016 - June 2017

After six months of perseverance, Dropbox started adding posters and art around the office which spelt the natural end of Tanner Wall. It had served its purpose. A fleeting act of corporate anarchy morphed into office art. A commentary of a commentary made of silly Photoshopped memes.

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