The Brief: A popular image labeling meme was born out of an illustration of an anime video game character with her arms outstretched falling onto someone crouched on the ground.
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The original image for this meme comes from a piece of fan art posted on Instagram. This illustration depicts the character Monika from the anime visual novel video game Doki Doki Literature Club (DDLC) T-posing and falling onto the character Sans from the video game Undertale. These image macro memes are typically referred to as “anime girl falling memes” or “anime girl T-posing memes.”
The contrast between the smile on Monika’s face with the submissive and helpless pose of Sans makes for a comedic and bizarre meme format. Instead of referring to the context these characters come from, these memes typically use the image as a metaphor for something or someone destroying something else. Some literal interpretations of anime girl falling memes reference how her T-pose is reminiscent of a cross or more specifically of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro. Anime girl falling or T-posing memes are particularly popular on Reddit.
This anime girl falling meme adds Christ The Redeemer into the picture, commenting on the unanswered mystery of how Reddit karma is calculated.
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