Memes Throughout the ages episode 287: Happy Birthday Daniel! (RemTGM's Birthday Special)
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The podcast discusses the origin and spread of the "Happy Birthday Daniel" meme, which began as an AI-generated video of Subaru Natsuki from the anime *ReZero* making a birthday wish. The scene, drawn from a book version of the series, features Subaru climbing stairs and declaring, "Did you really think I'd let this day pass quietly?" The meme gained traction on TikTok and Reels in 2026, where fans reenacted and edited it into humorous videos. Despite the original scene being brief and not central to the story, it resonated with fans due to its ironic and relatable tone. The video is fully AI-generated, with no hand-drawn elements, and its popularity highlights how internet culture adapts anime moments into viral, out-of-context memes. The creators note the meme's humor lies in the absurdity of a character with a "climbing" persona making a birthday wish, blending fan fiction with internet meme culture. They also touch on other memes like "domer" and "I'm cranking 90s morty," criticizing them as tired or repetitive. The episode ends with a celebration of Daniel’s birthday, a nod to the meme’s origin, and a reflection on the evolving nature of meme culture, including AI-generated content and fan-driven humor. The discussion also includes fan reviews, a fan poll on favorite podcast eras, and a light-hearted commentary on gaming trends, such as Fortnite’s sprite collection. The overall tone is celebratory, humorous, and reflective of the community’s engagement with internet memes and anime fandom.
Hello, my name is RemTGM, and I'm BC Ed, and I'm SuperMegaMan10, and welcome to Memes Throughout
the Ages.
Hey guys!
Happy birthday, Daniel!
I made this special profile picture just for you!
Did you really think I'd let this day pass quietly?
Because unlike the st- ah, I forgot the script.
Oh, we're LARPing.
Actually, fun fact, we're not LARPing this episode because we actually have watched ReZero
at least most of Season 1.
Yeah.
We need to watch Ducko, we've been watching it with Ducko, well, we as in me and Rem,
MegaMan I don't think cares about ReZero, but, um, yeah, me and Ducko and Rem have been
watching it.
I think we started it, like, last summer or something?
Yeah.
Not even done Season 1 yet.
Listen, th- this show's gonna keep going for, like, they're only on Season 4, I think they're
going for 7 seasons, we're good, they've been doing this since, like, 2016, we've got plenty
of time.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think we'll be fine.
Um.
You know what else is still going?
One Piece.
You know, I'm never watching One Piece.
Oh my god.
Have you seen it?
No.
No.
No.
No.
Have you seen that, um, that one, I think it was a Reddit post?
Oh, that One Piece?
Okay, blah.
About, um, uh, One Piece?
There was someone that was reading One Piece, and they made a post back in 2006 that, um,
that's, that was, uh, talking about how One Piece had been going on for too long, and
how he had to, like, Oda should start wrapping up the story.
And that the, uh, the person who made that post said that they were going to stop reading
because it was going on for so long.
That was 20 years ago.
20 years ago.
Hold on, wait, I just changed my audio settings because someone, because a guy told me to.
Do I sound better?
Uh, well, you have, uh, an echo now.
Oh, okay, well, that's awesome.
Guy, is my echoing now?
Um, let's see.
Yes.
Yes.
I am?
Yeah.
That's so cool.
God, I'm so happy.
Um.
Hold on, MegaManTalk.
Hi, how are you?
Alright, it sounds exactly the same.
Just with an echo.
Just with an echo.
Alright, well, I'm changing that.
Um.
Um.
Did I fix it?
Oh, let's see.
There's echo cancellation.
You can get rid of that.
Oh, how do I?
Well, it's on.
Um.
Is that better?
Yeah.
Um.
Um.
Um.
Um.
Um.
Is that better?
How's that?
Okay, no, I turned it off.
It would be worse.
Alright.
Yeah, there's no echo.
Okay, is it better now?
MegaManTalk?
Hi, how are you?
Uh, I think so.
Okay, what about now?
Hi, how are you?
Oh, okay, that's better.
I don't know if it's, like, extremely better, but it's definitely better.
Okay, good.
Uh, yeah, everyone, uh, episode, um, f- uh, podcast, Daniel's birthday, uh, uh, speak--
No, Rymus, you're supposed to say that thing.
I know.
I know.
Rrrrr.
Say it now.
I'm gone.
Actually, you have to ask me the thing.
And also, it's my birthday.
Uh.
Uh.
Uh.
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Uh.
No, Rymus, you're supposed to say that thing.
I know.
I know.
Rrrrr.
Say it now.
I'm gone.
I'm gone.
I'm gone.
I'm gone.
I'm gone.
I'm gone.
I'm gone.
I'm gone.
Rymus.
Rymus.
Rymus.
I'm gone.
I'm gone.
I'm gone.
I'm gone.
I'm gone.
I'm gone.
I'm gone.
Rymus.
Rymus.
sure they all sound the same yeah um yeah i remember undertale comic does
does anyone remember undertale just like the game yeah not you mean delta rune oh i'll let him go
yeah i remember it um my sister used to play it yeah she owns it
so we should we all own undertale right i don't i i played it on my sister's computer
oh okay yeah i use her steam account anyway uh happy uh yeah so our meme for today is happy
birthday daniel now you've probably seen this before specifically in the first week of june
because on june 3rd that'll probably be mentioned in bc
a's part so i won't go too in depth on it there was a specific episode of re zero that was released
uh in season four that depicted a certain scene where the main character subaru natsuki or as
me bca and ducko like to call him patrick nazi is a um it's a scene where he's walking upstairs now
more about that later on in bca's part the aura monster yeah but happy birthday daniel um
is subaru natsuki in front of a cake it's ai by the way ai slop is this like the second ai
this is the third one right with anger birds yeah this is the third one this season great
because we did uh three purple hearts oh yeah right and don't forget we did uh olive mustard
brother this season call of call of mustard that was a year ago this season actually hold on like
all episodes in general i'm actually gonna check real quick it's funny you say that i'm pretty sure
that was like exactly a year ago really it was june 14th so that's pretty close it's this same
year leave your mark add your name own your story there's a there's a daniel shirt
where you can put your own name on it a hundred percent polyester
probably yeah all right so the happy birthday daniel meme is an ai generated video of subaru
natsuki where he is uh he's standing there it's specifically based off the uh one uh
the one drawing from the book from the novel because larpers re-zero is actually not a manga
it is a book yeah really yeah uh ducko told us this i think like a year ago something like that
there is a manga but that's not the the original version it's originally a book and that uh that
drawing of subaru natsuki is a manga and that uh that drawing of subaru natsuki is a manga and that's
uh aura farming while climbing the stairs showing his face is from the book um so they take that
and they have ai at a cake with the name daniel uh and it's parodying that uh that era not too
long ago where uh people would take like different characters and they'd have like an they like make
it and they make like an ai video where a character the the character is wishing some random person
a happy birthday and they say like go use this profile picture there's never been a payton one
i don't know who that is so i can i can say that it's in my actually yeah sorry i have no clue
who's that um there's there's never been a rembrandt edward johnson one
yeah because that person doesn't exist yeah literally that you think there is a red
rembrandt edward johnson there cannot be there there's no way there that the the name ducko made
up is is an actual human being there is well i'm i'm pretty certain yeah i mean it's googling if
there's a real rembrandt i don't think so there's probably like a total of like five rembrandts
in existence no you're not five maybe like 10. rem you should have been named wolfgang
why oh my god there is you're no no there is not mayor of baltimore no no this is painted
by someone named rembrandt but it is painted by someone named rembrandt who painted edward johnson
so yeah wait no no oh my god i'm not kidding it was the mayor of baltimore so i'm gonna have to
edit that out i swore um okay so the painter rembrandt gorilla so i'm you know i'll do that
the the painter rembrandt painted yeah there was a painter named rembrandt who painted the
mayor of baltimore whose name just so happens to be edward johnson yes
there is no rembrandt edward johnson but somebody named rembrandt made
made a painting of edward johnson that's actually insane
hey man i'll take what i can get
um uh so yeah people during the that time where people were making different like ai
birthday profile picture videos as jokes on instagram reels um and tiktok one of them that
was made was uh was one of subaru wishing daniel a happy birthday there was an incredible gassy one
i you know i'm not surprised and what uh
subaru says this in the video he says happy birthday daniel did you really think i'd let
this day pass quietly i know the kind of power you vibe with the kind that keeps climbing no
matter what in reference to the segment in the book where i was about to call him daniel uh
subaru climbs stairs after falling and something i don't we're not there yet happy birthday daniel
did you really think i'd let this day pass quietly i know the kind of power you vibe with the kind that
keeps climbing no matter what so here's your gift a profile picture wrapped in that same aura
use it anywhere you know the rule even if the stairs never end we keep climbing
some guy throws him off the stairs and that one time he didn't die and he gets back up and starts
climbing again yeah yeah
so that that's that's the meme is people would take that
um and this was this is actually a more recent thing because although this was a meme
this this started pretty uh i don't know a decent amount of time ago i'd say yeah because it started
as aura monster yeah it started as aura monster then the profile picture video was made and that
was that was a few months ago and then it resurfaced again when um the the aura monster
scene was adapted into the anime yeah and then it started showing up it was like a zero out of
10 stairs yeah apparently i don't know if this is true from what i've heard it's not even actually
important in the story like it it happens for like five seconds dude
but people really liked the the aura monster drawing in the book so it became a thing it needed
an impact frame yeah it should have made an impact frame for each step well that that's just black and
white well that's what people wanted though there should have been at least one that would have been
yeah one of the animators said
i have to explain to my co-workers who what an aura monster is so i i was really expecting them
to do something but guess they had to go do their job
yeah yeah yeah
that like that that ruined people's days sorry people were like zero out of ten scene 10 out of
10 episode
do you think they even know like what this like what the show is about like do you think they
watched it or did the happy birthday daniel people yeah or do you think they just watched
that one episode specifically for the stairs i believe there is at least like a handful of
people that watched the episode just for the stairs
larper
we haven't even finished the first season
mega man hasn't even watched one episode no he's watched the whole show oh yeah maybe you
watched the whole thing right yeah i did yeah can you tell us what happens at the end
they all died and then everybody died you know what we haven't even got there yet
that's not even like it's not even like impossible to happen yeah
it's super rude like that's what i'll stop though or something i don't even that's the
wrong show i meant felix i don't even know if they're they're done the the story in the book
i swear like uh ducko said something about that hold on let me look this up real quick
is re-zero finished
no what
what
yeah
, it's not apparently there's new novels released every like three months
that's crazy okay this is never ending this is gonna be the next one piece
no no
i don't know and this is already not a good start
but yeah
we gonna be okay is that what you just said yeah okay
is the hardest i swear to god are we gonna be okay
you know netspin all right is that pharrell
i'm i'm just saying yes and kendrick that's the mustard guy oh i feel like kendrick's entire
career absolutely ruined it did he's like forever the mustard guy he went in the knowledge this guy
he went from like a respected rapper to like like basic white bread it's like a joke yeah
the guy he was like dissing for actually valid things got out better than he did
that's crazy yeah now no one even cares anymore yeah i don't know it's old news
yeah every update that's old news
oh my god when we were out getting ice cream there was a guy in a blue car
and i saw him and he kind of looked like epstein i was gonna say something but i didn't
maybe he was no no dude it's okay he he's he he's plymouth he uh i don't know with php
he's plymouth dude dale he's he's a little bit of lore about palm hp on ducko's island he used he
used to be palm beach pete but he got remade into glumshanks from skylanders
i forgot anyways pretty fun my turn yeah uh well hold on hold on hold on
bca yeah can you tell us where this meme came from
uh how this meme started where this meme came from all that jazz you know yeah the original happy
birthday daniel video featuring subaru natsuki from rezero was posted on march 19th uh 2026
on tick tock by the page animera media which uses ai generating oh my god ai video generation tools
to create personalized video gifts and greetings available for purchase wow someone paid for this
i'd pay for that jesus okay wow uh the video received roughly three million views and 246 800
likes in a bit over two months it's so funny how you can just like ai generate something now and
like people love it like love it as a joke or yeah okay like you could pour your heart and soul until
i could into like an animation or a joke and then someone generates happy birthday daniel and pours
you out of the water that's true i mean let's think about which one's better for a second
oh yeah no you're right i i love i love ai that pencil slop is for losers
pencil slop just snap the pencil as as my friend peter would say oh i know peter yeah griffin oh
because he did it yeah i'm friends with him he snapped the pencil i know a guy called peter paid
called uh never mind you know anyone named john jacob jingleheimer schmidt
is my name too yeah you know whenever we go out
the people always shout there goes john jacob jingle hires i know peter to pay paul that's
that listen me and him go way back oh peter to pay paul paul
like is that like logan paul's long lost cousin who was hey
you don't know they're not topped in yeah i'm not is this like an underground niche rapper
no it's it's like it's like an old it's it's an old saying borrow from peter to pay paul
what it's like really it's not niche it's just like extremely old the only reason that was what
is he saying you've been like supposed to mean what does that mean you borrow from a dude named
peter to pay off your debt oh and then you're in debt to peter and you're in debt to peter and if
you borrow from paul you're in debt to paul okay that makes the only reason i know that is because
i'm reading the uh the book uh yay's mom made about him because i got that for my birthday
and she says she says that she ever call him old sport i'll have to check
go watch great shots b anyway um oh yeah i'll put a link to that video in uh in the description
oh yeah you totally should that's everything for the origin there's like nothing here i will say
i've seen a lot of these happy birthday blank videos i saw one of a of the makima thing a while
back that i actually cannot talk about because that's really bad um there was a gassy one there
was a bowser one um there was a
god what is that oh there was a 2011 x one um there was a
god i'm trying i've seen so many and i'm just drawing a blank here
maybe that's for the best i don't want this like occupying any any of my brain space okay to go
off the the makima thing for a second what i know you can't say what that video is but like how bad
is it because i've heard of it it's pretty bad is it is it like like like like bowser fart
level or is it like way above that no it's like worse
it is worse i know it's like in like inflation yeah it's that great yeah it's it's the stock
market it's a training to buskist reference oh
my god yeah speaking of uh new raf and target video soon jack jack orders crack on the way
wait that's raf and is it is it raf and target jack orders crack or is it just called jack
jack orders crack we'll do that like last week in june i think because then bca will be out of school
yeah i remember last raf and target video we recorded during easter we did yeah yeah oh yeah
that was before i had to go to my mom yeah we managed to do that all in one day and we had to
like film like that is surprising i can't believe i can't believe we did it dude the nugget in a
biscuit was so disgusting it was like actually gross well if the the biscuit wasn't like a week
old and the nuggets weren't cold it'd probably taste better yeah maybe if we had some mashed
potatoes to dip it into
i actually i wear that shirt
in public you should you should wear that just like probably no but i wear it to school and i
like take off my sweatshirt and everything just let everyone see it anyways megaman yes
actually uh rem don't don't you say this yeah uh super megaman 10 can you please tell us how
this meme spread gladly the happy birthday daniel video then began to spread out a spread out of
context within the re-zero fandom can i say one last thing
one last thing yeah uh i just want to mention every single one of these videos is ai
not a single one is drawn by anybody you can continue all righty
the video began to spread out of context within the re-zero fandom over the phone
as it started seeing use and memes for instance on april 21st 26 tick-tock user zoro jurotard
posted an original clip which received over 1.9 million views and 188 400 likes in less than one
month on april 28th 2026 tick tocker user x borny posted a video video reenacting the original happy
birthday daniel video which received over 12.5 million views and 182 900 likes and just over a
two weeks fans of the re-zero franchise began jokingly incorporating the happy birthday daniel
video and audio into edits as it spread further into may 2026 on may 1st 2026 tick tocker user
pig from barnyard.mp posted an overstimulating edit using the audio and various other references
which received about 672 000 views and 182 000 likes and just over a hundred thousand views and
just over a hundred thousand views and 127 500 likes in less than two weeks
on may 5th 2026 tick tocker tick tock sanity.y posted a similar edit which received over 1.1
million views and 176 100 likes in about nine days and that's it happy birthday daniel out
of all this all the ai generated stuff one of them was real and that's it happy birthday daniel out out of all this all the ai generated stuff
out of all this all the ai generated stuff out of all this all the ai generated stuff one of them was real and it was
one of them was real and it was
one of them was real and it was just a reenactment yeah happy birthday
just a reenactment yeah happy birthday
just a reenactment yeah happy birthday gatsby
did you really think i'd let this day
did you really think i'd let this day
did you really think i'd let this day pass quietly old sport
do you really think i'd drive by this in
do you really think i'd drive by this in
do you really think i'd drive by this in my yellow car
my yellow car
my yellow car i'm gonna run over this topic like daisy
i'm gonna run over this topic like daisy and show you this really awesome
and show you this really awesome
and show you this really awesome hey spoilers no no no he ran over myrtle
hey spoilers no no no he ran over myrtle
hey spoilers no no no he ran over myrtle wait no daisy ran over myrtle also what
wait no daisy ran over myrtle also what
wait no daisy ran over myrtle also what do you mean spoilers this book's been out
do you mean spoilers this book's been out
do you mean spoilers this book's been out for 100 years i'm joking
i like i've unironically seen people
i like i've unironically seen people
i like i've unironically seen people comment like hey spoilers about like
comment like hey spoilers about like
comment like hey spoilers about like star wars
yeah
yeah
yeah you cannot go like spoilers about any
you cannot go like spoilers about any star wars movie because all the mainline
star wars movie because all the mainline
star wars movie because all the mainline ones have been out for like
ones have been out for like
ones have been out for like ever yeah like 10 plus years now
ever yeah like 10 plus years now
ever yeah like 10 plus years now like some of them are almost 100 years
like some of them are almost 100 years
like some of them are almost 100 years old god no what no wait they're like
old god no what no wait they're like
old god no what no wait they're like half a half a century
half a half a century
half a half a century yeah i was gonna say i don't think star
yeah i was gonna say i don't think star
yeah i was gonna say i don't think star wars is 100 years old yeah it's half it's
wars is 100 years old yeah it's half it's
wars is 100 years old yeah it's half it's half a century because star wars was 1977 mario's
half a century because star wars was 1977 mario's 1983. oh wow
1983. oh wow
1983. oh wow it's weird to think about
it's weird to think about
it's weird to think about yeah it is weird
yeah it is weird
yeah it is weird um
um
um so yeah happy birthday daniel happy
so yeah happy birthday daniel happy
so yeah happy birthday daniel happy birthday daniel i screamed like an empty
birthday daniel i screamed like an empty
birthday daniel i screamed like an empty mall after we got done seeing digital
mall after we got done seeing digital
mall after we got done seeing digital circus
circus
circus yeah well and then there's a spoiler
yeah well and then there's a spoiler
yeah well and then there's a spoiler warning kane
warning kane
warning kane climbed stairs at one point oh yeah he
climbed stairs at one point oh yeah he
climbed stairs at one point oh yeah he climbed stairs and
climbed stairs and
climbed stairs and we started doing aura monster in the
we started doing aura monster in the
we started doing aura monster in the theater yeah and then we said happy
theater yeah and then we said happy
theater yeah and then we said happy birthday daniel
birthday daniel
birthday daniel that was funny
that was funny
that was funny it didn't matter because there was like
it didn't matter because there was like
it didn't matter because there was like five other people in this
five other people in this
five other people in this yeah and they gasped that literally
yeah
yeah
yeah wait there was someone else too
wait there was someone else too
yeah yeah it was like the first guy that
yeah yeah it was like the first guy that
yeah yeah it was like the first guy that walked in he was just
walked in he was just
walked in he was just like one dude i didn't even know anyone
like one dude i didn't even know anyone
like one dude i didn't even know anyone walked in
walked in
walked in besides that family yeah when we left he
besides that family yeah when we left he
besides that family yeah when we left he was still sitting
was still sitting
was still sitting yeah i literally saw him just sitting
yeah i literally saw him just sitting
yeah i literally saw him just sitting there paralyzed in happiness about how
there paralyzed in happiness about how
there paralyzed in happiness about how great they were everyone
great they were everyone
great they were everyone i didn't even know that dude was there
i didn't even know that dude was there
i didn't even know that dude was there you didn't see him no
you didn't see him no
you didn't see him no oh well he was there and the fourth
oh well he was there and the fourth
oh well he was there and the fourth member of the meme team thought that um
member of the meme team thought that um
member of the meme team thought that um uh
uh
uh that everyone was like tumors or
that everyone was like tumors or
that everyone was like tumors or something yeah i don't know why she
something yeah i don't know why she
something yeah i don't know why she sucks at her brain scan uh whoops
sucks at her brain scan uh whoops
sucks at her brain scan uh whoops spoiler i don't care
spoiler i don't care
spoiler i don't care um if you come on if you don't know by
um if you come on if you don't know by
um if you come on if you don't know by now you know if you don't know
now you know if you don't know
now you know if you don't know then you know you know guys come on
then you know you know guys come on
then you know you know guys come on it's a song
it's a song
it's a song if you don't know now you know
if you don't know now you know
if you don't know now you know that was niche super nintendo second
that was niche super nintendo second
that was niche super nintendo second i made a song for nintendo gamecube and
i made a song for nintendo gamecube and
i made a song for nintendo gamecube and it goes like this
it goes like this
it goes like this nintendo games they're so fun to play
nintendo games they're so fun to play
play when you're away or when you stay in light in the hay what do you guys think you like it
um so yeah what do we think about daniel on his birthday well first of all um
to talk about what i think about the the show actually we'll talk about the show after we
talk about the meme okay i think that uh actually no let's do the show first and then the meme
because the memes like the last i think the show's pretty good and you're talking about
the amazing digital uh no oh i got three zero megaman's never watched it so he's watched all
of it oh yeah yeah you're right um i think the show is pretty good as well um i didn't really
know what to expect going into it and then i ended up getting like cucked halfway through season one
um if you don't know what that's a reference to there's a character named rem in the show
and she's just like i don't even like like what are we doing is she okay spoiler warning for
season one of a show that's been out for almost 10 years now um
the character named ram not not me um like says that she'll she'll have subaru's kids for some
reason but like she doesn't care if subaru tries to chase amelia that rhymes with dilemma um yeah
and it's like it's so like why because like at first it's who will he crack that's that's the
anime it's who will he crack and then it turns out he's actually cracking both because they
couldn't pick one and amelia yeah i i i man apparently everyone in the hates him
what
what
i don't think so what do you i can't we need to start watching it again i need to remember what
happens people think of a lesbian couple sure oh that'd be crazy uh ducko i feel like ducko would
would have spoiled it because this whole thing is yuri but yeah oh yeah if that happened he
definitely would have yeah um but uh what was i gonna say apparently everyone in the the uh fandom
uh poc why i don't know fair enough um i don't think i don't think she's that bad yeah she's just
kind of you know there anyway uh yeah the show's all right uh happy birthday daniel's pretty cool
even though the scene lasts like two seconds yeah megaman are we the actual scene yeah
what do you what do you think
this is probably the stupidest thing i've ever seen what do you mean it's great oh come on
it's daniel would you be happier if i said happy birthday megaman i can make that yeah can we do
that real quick yeah i'm not kind of oh my god i can't i i can't wait to i can't wait to ai these
drums when i get home are you not home right now no it's a kanye tweet no you like you like
responded to like a song i said can't wait to ai these drums when i get home
sorry hold on hold on hold on one second also run did you not did you not do your
one second hold on okay there you go what oh it's yeah yeah it's okay
she's still doing ball right i made that your catchphrase in tomodachi
yeah um rever are you still playing yeah i was actually playing at
last night i was going to i was going to play i feel like a lot of people fell off because
this gets boring yeah because they're larpers they don't know how tomodachi life works you
don't yeah of course you stopped because you're not a real fan megaman did you stop
did you stop
well maybe you should get no because the thing is these larpers they they played
they played the game 24 7 and they wonder why it's boring you're not supposed to do that
you're supposed to play it like three times a day maybe four max yeah so you can get all the market
stuff yeah and so yeah and so you can interact with your me's maybe maybe add a mirror too you
know if you're if you're feeling like you want to want to add something i level them up and give
them rooms yes i cannot tell you the amount of people i've seen with with like blank blank room
me's and they're like level three and people forget that the game is like it again you're
not supposed to play it constantly you're supposed to play every day and things get added during the
different seasons so right yeah because the summer stuff got released yeah too long ago i do think
they should have added more for the summer stuff but like i assume they're going to update the
game in the future wouldn't it be so cool if they did like a yearly update for the game for so like
each season each year got some new stuff they might do that i'm not sure they probably won't but
i don't i mean i need more dreams i need more yeah i need more things to do i want quirky i want
everything back yeah that's questions i miss all the old mini games i miss the dreams it feels like
there's 10 dreams max it does yeah i see here's what i think they need to do i think they need
to add everything back
they need to add someone said this and like i can't stop thinking about it
they need to add like levels to the island
the level does have the island does sort of have levels yeah but like you know how in the original
like there's multiple hills to the island and how it's like like almost everything in the new one is
flat well yeah because you're supposed to make everything which is kind of yeah but you can't
you can't make it go you
can't make the land go up oh you're right yeah so i think they should they'll make the game better
i'm sure because like i don't think they'll leave it like this they gave animal crossing updates
that's what i was about to that's what i was about to say they gave animal crossing a million
updates there's no way they don't do the same with tamodachi life yeah um and think about dlc
potential there's huge things they could do with that that's true yeah but uh anyways it's not off
topic because it's levels
levels going up upstairs
leveling oh israel i love solo leveling
bro we went so many episodes without mentioning israel you
okay i don't think that's true i swear we've done it in like every single not true actually
anyway uh this this meme is funny i like it i think whoa mega man calm down listen who else
is gonna drain the lakes okay
what's he draining lakes is he
is oh no he is draining lakes because all his posts on twitter are like ai
well i think we should i think we should help him out we should snap the pencil
i think we should all start making ai everything i think we should too this is gonna get clipped
like extremely out of context in the future and people are gonna think we like support ai
i don't do your own research
i don't do your own research
anyway uh yeah i think the me i don't even know if i said what i think about the meme i think the
meme is really funny um i i don't know if i'd like to see more memes like this i think it's like a one
and done thing you know you you already got your patrick your patrick nazi um you know it it's a
really funny meme and i think we should i want to see more memes that are funny like this and it's
really cool and
re-zero is pretty cool and yeah yeah yeah so we'll see you guys in the mean games goodbye goodbye
hello and welcome to the mean games
hello everyone and welcome to the mean games the part of the show where we play games
based on this episode and episodes before rem tgm would you like to go into further depth
all right so the meme games is the part of the show where we play games based on this episode
past episodes we were pick or will that we call the meme with a bunch of games i can play on it
who has most points by the end of the season from these games wins the meme games that's right let's
spin that wheel spin that wheel spin wheel spin that wheel oh ladies and gentlemen we got a boss
battle
oh play the play the face freighters boss battle music all right
so when we land on the boss battle what we do is we switch over to the meme games boss battle wheel
uh where we will have to play a meme game that is basically a more intense version of a meme game
that already exists and whoever wins gets two points instead of one
that's right so let's spin that wheel spin that wheel spin spin that wheel ladies and gentlemen
welcome to best fest opposite day how do we play this one rem tgm in best fest opposite day what
we need to do is we need to do the exact opposite of best fest which what we do for that is we need
to uh we will be given a random number random episode number from a random number generator
and the episode that corresponds with that number that we're given we have to instead of defending it
as the best meme ever created we need to uh try and say why it is the worst meme ever created
that's right and we have a thicker wheel here that we call the name wheel and we have all three of
our names on it and we are going to be spinning it see who goes first second and third in today's
meme games let's see who goes first if i win again you might who knows it depends on what
meme i get i will be going second in today's me sorry first geez uh let's see who goes second in
today's meme games oh and third that one too i said one thing and it messed me up but it's okay
rem you're going second in today's meme games which means megaman is going last
unfortunately is everyone ready yeah all right i opened roblox on accident hold on
go away all right three two one uh rem yeah you have to generate our memes yeah
all right so hold on let me see if i'm getting this right is this really episode 287
yes it is wait we already did the binding yeah we did yeah all right uh bca you're first right
yes i am all right let's see here which number you got episode 270 which i don't remember what
that is let me go look i'll go look right now episode 270 was i drink soda i eat pizza oh god
good but i but i like it
this one i drink soda i eat pizza all right i'm next let's see here i got episode 258 i also don't
know what that is i'll give you it right now 258 is domer oh i could oh that's gonna be a bit hard
especially to win over megaman with that one imagine it be like in the hundreds well let's
see super megaman 10 yours is episode number 56
seven oh wow that's all the way back i'm gonna assume this is gonna be really weird i feel like
it's uh morty it's like i'm cranking 90s i'm cranking 90s morty oh there's no way i yeah you
got it wow we all got like some pretty good ones yeah that's gonna be a bit tougher all right well
is everyone ready yep yes all right three two one uh yeah
all right guys so i drink soda i eat pizza right like what do you what even is this
like let's be let's be like entirely honest here like what even is the joke he drinks soda and
eats pizza that there there is no joke this is something that you put on instagram and you farm
you farm shares and you farm likes and people make it into a gif and people run it into the ground
and then you get some like unfunny ai person making everything
that his like like captain kirk potatoes say they they always make them say i drink so i eat pizza
what does that mean what does this even mean ram explain to me what does this mean um i drink
soda i eat pizza what what does this mean how is this funny um where's the joke uh popcorn megaman
popcorn reading
why is this funny
he drinks soda exactly there's no there's no punchline what makes this funny that what makes
it funny is he drinks soda eats pizza do you get it it's funny that's what makes it funny it's
because he's drinking soda and eating pizza it's stupid this is stupid like jokes now have no
meaning at all to them you just say something it's like it's like the niche it's like the new niche
meme alert memes that were popular and like what like december or something i can't even remember
but they just take a clip from a show and go new niche meme alert and it's just like uh
oh you didn't say it it's okay okay yeah i caught myself i'm sorry i was getting too into it
well it goes on i can feel the energy here it's just like it's just people it's like
young shonen saying wowie zowie what's funny nothing there's nothing funny
there's nothing there's nothing funny there's nothing funny there's nothing funny there's nothing funny
jeez man this meme sucks what do you think i give that a i did
i'm gonna be honest with you that was really good you made me almost think that you hate the meme
wow really yeah
what'd you think um i think i'm gonna give it a mid-high that was a good one
i actually really like this meme this is like the part where like that we're like the room is like
uncrosses his arms and goes i actually really like this
like the ls mark sprite
um so i got a high mid and mid-high uh yeah rem you're up next all right let's see here all right
okay um one one second my cat you found a decal book oh look how it looks like
i can't see anything
i can't see anything
i can't see anything
well i'll leave them to it rem you can go all right
guys
is domer funny don't even don't answer that you already know the answer it's no
okay first of all the entire joke okay is just multiple versions
of bart saying domer he's saying domer this is literally you know like the the the sybau
images like the the edited ones the that's literally what this is made for this is syba you
slop it's the they take that image and they put they put uh baby bart there and it says domer with
the the broken heart emoji it's just used to be able to say like oh funny sound effect and then
and then get it it's like it's like the image because i asked why ba you but like it's literally
just it's slop it's the definition of slop and the meme itself going away from all the the edits
is literally just it's stolen to be honest with you because it's not it's not originally from if
i'm if i'm correct here it's not originally from it's not originally domer it's like the uh the
like the things getting like like like like the check checking off and then all the ones wrong and
it's the same thing it's the same joke over and over and over again it's like oh this one sounds
normal and like they're sped up each time and then the the last one is slowed all the way down it's
evil oh oh that's still funny oh evil evil because it's slowed down that's funny that's funny and
it's got evil colors oh that one's wrong that one's evil it's like you're trying hard to make
a joke funny but once you've seen it you've seen it a million times you can't do anything more with
it it's not funny anymore try different jokes it's made the same joke three times already
i don't think it's funny anymore the rev you are actually right a domer isn't even an original meme
it was the original one was um god what was it wasn't it like homer with the law yeah it was
homer and then and then there was like mild bobby sauce or whatever yeah and then there's the uh home
lander blowing you're the home no that that turned into the homelander choir yeah my vote is
but yeah yeah you know what that was really good room um yeah um i probably give this uh
i that's singing okay now me and the choir go way back what do you say me and the choir go way back
oh yeah actually technically the homelander choir is a homelander quartet
yeah but yeah whatever but we're acquired it sounds better yeah anyway so ram gets a low
high and a mid-high uh megaman you're up next so is i'm cranking 90s morning best meme ever
no it is not and i have three reasons why first off
it ruined one of the greatest memes of 2010 and that is pickle rick
and i have three reasons why first off it ruined one of the greatest memes of 2010 and that is pickle rick
because this is an edited scene of the pickle rick pickle rick scene from the show
pickle rick pickle rick scene from the show
pickle rick pickle rick scene from the show second of all
second of all
second of all morty rick was bragging to morty that he
morty rick was bragging to morty that he
morty rick was bragging to morty that he was in fortnight and he was pranking 90s
was in fortnight and he was pranking 90s
was in fortnight and he was pranking 90s and now granted
and now granted
and now granted morty is in fortnight now but this was
morty is in fortnight now but this was
morty is in fortnight now but this was in fortnight and was cranking 90s
in fortnight and was cranking 90s
in fortnight and was cranking 90s and third of all
and third of all
and third of all this is just every this is just basically
this is just every this is just basically
this is just every this is just basically any other scene in rick and morty
any other scene in rick and morty
any other scene in rick and morty this is like any other basic scene in
this is like any other basic scene in
this is like any other basic scene in rick and morty like it could have been
rick and morty like it could have been
rick and morty like it could have been any scene yeah it could have been any
any scene yeah it could have been any
any scene yeah it could have been any scene in rick and morty where rick is
in rick and morty where rick is in rick and morty where rick is showing morty something extremely stupid
showing morty something extremely stupid
showing morty something extremely stupid how is this even more funny
how is this even more funny
how is this even more funny er than all the other
er than all the other
er than all the other scenes where it's like that
scenes where it's like that
scenes where it's like that it's the same it's the same joke
it's the same it's the same joke
it's the same it's the same joke it's not that funny anymore
and that's why
and that's why
and that's why i'm cranking 90s morty is the worst
i'm cranking 90s morty is the worst
i'm cranking 90s morty is the worst meme out there they replaced one of the
meme out there they replaced one of the
meme out there they replaced one of the funniest jokes
dude they took my statue one sauce
dude they took my statue one sauce
dude they took my statue one sauce that was funny
that was funny
that was funny they replaced one of the funniest jokes
they replaced one of the funniest jokes
they replaced one of the funniest jokes in the 20 times
and he made the same joke
and he made the same joke
and he made the same joke several times already i don't think it's
several times already i don't think it's
several times already i don't think it's funny anymore
funny anymore
funny anymore oh is that it yeah all right that was
oh is that it yeah all right that was
oh is that it yeah all right that was that was all right it takes a high level
that was all right it takes a high level
that was all right it takes a high level of iq to be
of iq to be
i'd say high mid that was all right i'd go high mid as well i you know you the the in the beginning
i wasn't really sure how i felt with you know but the the pickle rick thing that was funny
but you know the argument wasn't it's just literally the pickle rick it is the pickle
rick scene yeah argument wasn't too strong being however i do think in in the middle in the end it
it definitely uh definitely got better yeah it was good good i would i would i would uh i think
it would be really entertaining to see like a youtube channel where it just like takes any
popular meme and goes into like extreme detail why it isn't funny yeah that'd be cool probably
somebody that does that and we just don't know what you know maybe yeah oh my god i could be
like the angry video game nerd i'd be like the angry meme nerd that'd be cool that would be
that'd be cool
that would be really actually i might do that i was gonna say look at game grumps
game grumps just plays video games meme grumps but um yeah this means rempgm wins
today's meme games it gets two points so this is a boss battle yeah um congratulations
uh yeah we'll see you all in criticism castle goodbye
hello everyone and welcome to criticism castle point the show where we read views from you guys
all the way down under in the review section below remtgm what are our reviews for today
all right so as always we're going to read three reviews one from apple podcasts one from
spotify and one from the discord server again remember to join the discord server if you are
not already in it what are you doing uh as always we're going to start off with apple podcasts let's
see here we have
you have a just you have a guys come on yeah i need we i okay if you have ever left in a review
on apple podcasts ever you need to like make a new one now if you haven't ever make one right now
right now pause please i know i know some of you might be shy to write reviews please write reviews
don't be shy if you write one right now there's such a good chance of us reading it
there's there's i i there's a 100 guaranteed chance of us reading it
totally okay there's no way there is we will read it at some point just leave yeah
you listening right now even if you don't listen to apple podcasts go leave one
yeah all right you got a this one is titled nostalgia and it entails i still look at old
era memes not to laugh but to remember how amazing and funny they were in their prime
they were important to us because many people grew up seeing these memes
so if people want to bring them up in the modern day
you can do it
make it have a purpose and and then it it i don't know what happened to the rest of the review but
it's not here oh well underwater juggernaut i get what you mean i like looking at old memes like not
to laugh at them be like wow like this was this was influenced and and uh influence of i agree
and as meme historians or whatever we are you know that should be what we do i i agree i do
like looking back at
what'd you say we're meme historians
i like that i like both of those as i i think i think i i agree i like looking back at old memes
and being like huh it used to be funny yeah it's such an interesting thing like bb90
so who's this by this is by underwater jaguar 855 thank you so much underwater jaguar 855
for the five-star review next review all right this review here i we need to issue a huge apology
um to one specific fan um cheese master so it always seems like every few months one of us
gets into a controversy because we made our fans mad oh this one's my bad so i accidentally called
cheese master crusader because i assumed that cheese master was a fan of mine and i was like
what the hell are you talking about and i was like what the hell are you talking about and i was like
ER
Because when you assume it makes a thing you can't say without the episode getting marked as explicit on Apple Podcasts out of you and me.
So, that's my bad.
So, Cheesemaster left this review on Spotify.
And he said, or she, sorry.
I don't know.
I don't want to get in trouble for this one too.
Who is Crusader?
Hold on, I'm sorry.
It's titled nothing because it's on Spotify and it entails.
Who is Crusader?
I am not whoever the hell that, hold on, whoever the hell that guy is.
They didn't even give me the right credit for my review.
Zero out of five star review.
Can't read names properly somehow.
Is this joking?
I don't know.
And then.
Sorry, sorry we assumed you were someone else.
And then he said, I am the master of cheese, not some crusader.
And then I hit him.
I hit him with.
I hit him with a PR response here.
He said, sorry, Cheesemaster.
You had the same name and profile picture as someone in the discord that used to go by Crusader.
So, we thought he was you.
Our apologies.
Praying emoji.
Rem.
And then I realized that this person didn't.
And I was just making this up in my brain for some reason.
And then I said, nevermind.
No, you didn't.
I was just wrong.
LaMau.
My bad.
And then he said, huh?
And then I said, clarifying.
I thought you had the same profile picture as Crusader at some point, but that was actually a different account that was Crusaders.
I got you too confused for some reason.
We'll make sure to shout you out and apologize in the next episode.
And then he said, thank you.
When I see it, my review will be five out of five stars.
We'll get ready to change that review because we said your name right.
We did.
Shout out to.
Oh, my God.
Shout out to Crusader.
Oh, my God.
Shout out to Cheesemaster.
Sorry, Cheesemaster for getting it wrong.
We won't.
We won't assume next time.
We'll make sure to read the names.
I like to make an A out of you.
Yeah, I like I like to to like try and remember people's names so they don't think I'm like, I think they're a different person each time.
So I want them to know that, like, I still remember that they're the same person.
But I get how that can.
Also backfire when I get them completely wrong.
Yeah.
So thank you, Cheesemaster.
Also, shout out to Crusader as well, because we brought you up.
Yeah.
Shout out to both Cheesemaster and Crusader.
So, yeah.
Yeah.
Thank you, Cheesemaster, for the review.
Sorry, we said your name wrong last time.
Next review.
All right.
Moving on to the Discord server here.
I'm going to start doing this weekly.
I think where I just, like, ask our fans questions.
That would be cool.
Yeah, I think it would be really cool to do for Criticism Castle to ask them on here.
Yeah.
So that way we have something to say during this section of the news.
Not the news.
Yeah.
Yeah, because it's more it's more interesting than just saying leave reviews, you know?
Yeah.
And so I had this idea.
I had this thought and I was like, oh, this is a good question.
I asked our fans over on the Discord server.
Remember to join the Discord server if you're not already in it.
What are you doing?
I asked them, which era of MTTA has been your favorite?
Also, tell us why.
And the options were episodes 1 to 100, episodes 101 to 200, and episodes 201 to present.
Three people voted episodes 201 to present.
Two people voted episodes 101 to 200, and nobody voted episodes 1 to 100.
Wow.
Which, that's kind of understandable because we're just trying to, we're just finding our footing.
Yeah.
And, um, I'm sure they're still entertaining, but I, it would be so weird listening.
Were we supposed to vote on this or no?
I don't think so.
What?
Were we supposed to vote?
Oh, I mean, we, I'll ask you guys.
I think it's more so meant for the fans.
Because I voted for episodes 201 through present.
That's okay.
We can, we can, uh, after we.
We can read these, say what we think about them too.
Uh, all right.
So, we got three responses here.
Um, the first one's from, uh, DustSands10.
Uh, and his entails.
Was gonna vote 101 to 200, but so many amazing episodes are in the 200s.
Then Guide.
That's fair.
Guide responded as well.
He said, uh, his entails.
101 to 200 because of the NOSA, uh, because of the NOSA.
nos age was peak and also it was pretty fun it was pretty fun you say and then uh ralsei
uh was the last one here uh his entails humor and he voted for episode 201 episodes 201 to present
uh what do you guys what do you guys think i really like 201 to the present because like a
lot has a lot has changed about us during this time and we did a lot of good episodes during
during that time yeah it might be a recency bias but i i agree i also like it's not that i don't
like one through a hundred it's it's that like we weren't as refined yeah so i i can't call it my
favorite i appreciate it i can't call it my favorite i would say i'm leaning towards 101 to
200 but i i'd say
201 to present is my favorite right now yeah maybe if i re-watch everything i'll find that
101 to 200 on my favorite but right now it's the present day i agree i think just just like bca said
i appreciate the existence of episodes 1 to 100 because it was just it was us just starting out
and trying to figure out what we wanted to do with the podcast i'm sure there are there there
are funny moments yeah from that point i like i i will say there are because because
obviously there are um but they're they're nowhere near as good as our episodes are now
and just like i feel i feel like it would be so weird going back to listen to us back then
that's so sussy baca please don't remind me
fifth episode of the podcast
what
i know that's what ram was that's what ram said in the episode so like they're
oh yeah there are there were funny moments from that time and i do appreciate the existence of
episodes 1 to 100 but um and we definitely did improve and change over that time period
like considerably yeah that was such a big uh uh like amount of time um and then episodes 101 to
200 i really liked i think that was definitely when we found like when we figured out what we
wanted to do and then um we made the
switch eventually to discord um and then we did once once a week instead of what was it twice or
three times a week yeah on tuesdays and one on fridays yeah episodes two and one two to present
are absolutely um my favorite and the reason why is just because like we know what we're doing
by that point in time that we started the 200s we knew what we were doing we're already used to
being on discord uh everything sounded good but we didn't know what we were doing and we didn't
better um the jokes we made were funnier they're just so we went more in depth on the meme
um we started doing custom thumbnails yes that's one of my favorite things we moved the news to
the end of the episode which that actually we did that in episodes 101 to 200 but like
at that point in time we had we've we had perfected what we do yeah i i think that's
i i i'm gonna i'm just gonna i'm gonna predict the future i think episodes uh 301 to 400 are
gonna outdo episodes 201 to 300 i think we're gonna keep i think we're gonna keep getting better
because like we obviously we can't see into the future but i just feel like based off what we've
we've learned now is that we just keep getting better yeah and i think during this time i think
like we changed a lot
we've also started doing like more stuff yeah yeah like i i know i know mtj the movie is probably
nowhere close to ever being made but we started on that and it's something that we do want to do
yeah rem's game's almost done i've started youtube again and then megaman started streaming like
we're all doing our own things yeah and we made the patreon doing the podcast like like on a
schedule has kind of helped with that like keeping us like doing stuff online definitely yeah plus
me mostly like streaming three times a week on like different days i think like i got used to like
all of that yeah being on a schedule yeah
so yeah i definitely agree i think episodes 201 to present um are the best so far who knows
hopefully episodes 301 to 400 will be even better um yeah but we'll just have to wait and see um
so yeah thank you everyone
that voted on this and put their thoughts yeah and as well and a big happy birthday to daniel
yeah happy birthday to daniel um real quick thank you so much underwater jaguar and cheese master
for the five star as opposed to five star reviews if you want to be in criticism castle next time
make sure to leave or review five star or not it doesn't matter we just want to hear your criticism
like name implies and thank you uh dust guide and ralph safan yes thank you guys for answering this
week
question uh make sure to answer the next one yeah uh news yep uh mega man um
hit me with the goop you know okay so the new season of fortnite started and it's and it's
amazing i think this one does look kind of cool yeah this one is a lot of fun like last last season
of course yeah it was fun the rivalry thing that was a lot of fun but i think this season this one
is probably the best season for me i think this one is probably the best season for me i think this
season during this chapter because we have like the whole sprite collecting thing i really like
that like and it's like pokemon and i know that you guys like it but i think like with this i quite
enjoy it a lot because like there's sprites with different power-ups and there's different versions
of it and granted the burnt peanut yes that is a weird choice and a very awkward one in the game
but i think it's okay i do have it selected as my uh my sprite in my in the guardian skin
and the battle pass it does look really cool a dylan the dylan skin which is don't like them
who's a kill it uh it's one of the it's that girl skin that's like almost basically
uh what yeah look up look up
no
no i know i still took her on dylan fortnite her yeah oh wow she just has a bra on yeah it's that's
crazy yeah it's i'm it still kind of surprises me like it caught me off guard when i first saw it
because like this is a bit way different from all the other summer girl skins that we've gotten over
the over the years but she this skin's okay she's like wearing nothing that's crazy like i see what
epic is trying to do like trying to make it a bit more teen but it kind of caught me off guard but
it's an okay skin and i know this season kind of had a rough start before we released but like
this season it's it's fun the battle pass yeah it's a bit weird and one of the sprites yeah
it's a bit uncomfortable but all of it in the end it's all great it's all amazing i've been really
enjoying this season a lot and we got a whole bunch of collabs like right out of the gate the
first week by the way we got he-man day one and earlier tonight we got the amazing digital circus
circus which i thought was kind of cool and i did buy the amazing digital circus bundle and i might
tomorrow put where play the game and wear them 30 fat dollars on a discount by the way which a guy
epic that's illegal you cannot do fake discounts that's not legal wait hold on i have a genuine
question how is it a fake discount because it's it's discounted as soon as it came out rem
that bundle
that bundle it said it says it's 7 100 v bucks
right yeah how much you buy it for 3 400 why is that
the thing just came out why is it that's why that's not no that's not that's yes it is it's
not it's not a real but how they're making you believe that you're getting a deal when it was
never that price to begin with they do it with every bundle like that's illegal you can't do
that hold on hold on hold on hold on
here's an argument though when you buy things at a store let's say you buy
let's let's say there's there's an item you buy right let's say it's five it's illegal that way
too you can't you can't do you can't act like something is discounted when it was never that
previous price are they acting like it's discounted or are they just saying that it's yes
they're trying to act like it's discounted when it never was oh i didn't it's not legal you can't do
that look wait fortnight i didn't know that i thought it was just like showing that it was
cheaper than if you were to buy them all together this might be this might be something different
but i i read it somewhere yeah how is it legal for epic to have fake sales on their skins what they
is that's literally what it says oh okay the bundles are discounted okay yeah the bundles
are only discounted that's okay that's it's only it's just the bundles are discounted the regular
if you were buying it separately it would cost salt okay yeah it would cost that much so i was
thinking this was something different that other games were doing where they would uh put something
into the shop and immediately discount it making it you know look like oh my god look at this deal
oh okay i see where you're coming from yeah never mind epic epic's fine yeah it's just all that only
works for the bundles everything else if you were get to separately it would have cost okay exactly
that okay that makes more sense vbucks if i did that but i got the bundle 70 dollars by the way
this game sucks i still have some left and i know that later this weekend ghost is coming back
i might what do you mean some you just got like a hundred dollars of vbucks how do you have some
left you should have he had he had 70 worth and he spent 30 on the digital circus
because you rem you saw me buying those jam tracks oh yeah that's true and then later that
night i got a new skin and it was the dark it was like the new style of the dark world i remember
when people owned everything in fortnite that's literally impossible now yeah
yeah
dude i have to be like elon musk levels of rich maybe yeah i i got uh i got a new skin and it's
like the it's supposed to be the dark void but he's like doesn't have like his space suit on and
he's like this really pixelated like strong body of himself it's it's really cool the emo that comes
with it was really cool i like the music of it it was it's it's pretty good but yeah i got i got i
got that and some of the other stuff that came with it and then later this i think was the 10th
i got 800 vbucks from the crew and i spent a little bit on a emote that came out it was a
flapper it was a flapper emo and tonight i got the amazing digital circus so i still have plenty
left and i'm gonna spend a little bit more of it on uh ghost face because i do like the skin and i
wanted it for i wanted it since it came out during fortnight mirrors last year and it is coming back
for summer ween so i'm gonna get it and uh streaming wise i think it's gone a little bit
better like with my tiktok like i'm almost close to 10 000 likes
so i'm gonna get it and uh streaming wise i think it's gone a little bit better like with my tiktok like i'm almost close to 10 000 likes
uh but on youtube i've been getting a little bit more followers i'm like in the 90s now
oh nice really yep and i got i got more comments i got a few more comments on some of my
clips and stuff so yeah it's been going a little bit good with the streaming wise and i did get to
like and somebody who commented on one of my youtube shorts did join in on one of my streams
and i did get to play with him because he did ask me and i was like yeah sure and it was
and he was really fun to play with he was a really nice guy
but yeah it was really nice to play with him and i think it's gone i think
what's been kind of happening with me with streaming i think it's gone a little bit better
and i and i really do like that um streamer university applications has started i might try
to do it i'm gonna get ask my dad about seeing if he can let me use him as like a
emergency contact but uh and if he says no then i'll probably not do it but if but i do want to
try doing this and if he's okay with it then that's perfectly fine and uh yeah that's really
all i got all right yeah i agree i released a video for a school project and it's pretty funny
yeah
it is funny i like it that's about the great gatsby it's called the great shatsby you should
go watch it uh uh fourth link in the description yeah on the actual video i've been working out
i'm a minute 30 oh my god i've been busy i have been actually that's fair that's fair
do you think potentially this month oh yeah okay it should be this month if it's not this
month and something has gone horribly bad it all went wrong yeah i think what has it been three
videos this month actually hold on oh no no no no may may 4th was was star wars yeah so like you
posted two videos i've done two this month and it could be three this will be my most at least in a
month so it's been a lot of work and it's been a lot of work and it's been a lot of work and it's
been a lot of work and it's been a lot of work and it's been a lot of work and it's gotten progressively
like shorter it has been faithful sheriff 1837 dr chat 1250 the chud video 657 the pokemon 1 413 and
now great gatsby is 347 well the new video is pretty long right oh yeah it's like 20 minutes
okay so that'll be your naughty i i still need to get everything sorted but it's looking to be
like a 20 either slightly below or slightly above 20 minute video
okay so be your longest right um maybe right now my longest is quiet please at 2004 okay so
it it could be my longest yeah all right yeah that's basically everything okay um i've got i've
got a lot of news um first of all i don't know how i didn't bring this up last week i brought it up
the week before because
it was uh leaked but rayman legends retold officially announced very excited for that
um we hold on i don't know i'd like a specific order oh uh yeah i'll go i'll go in order of
like what happened so uh yay's birthday was on june 8th which uh that's important because
he dropped a new song and on top of that uh officially confirmed that bully deluxe
is coming out june 19th i'm very excited for that that's that's from right now that's exactly one
week from now um very excited for that we'll be staying up till 12 in the morning for that so
if you want to see my live reaction to that join the discord server first first link in the
description below um uh then it was it was my birthday which is why we're doing uh happy
birthday daniel happy birthday daniel happy birthday daniel
a lot of birthday stuff uh this week um had a very nice birthday i'd say it's probably one of
my favorites did a lot of stuff it was a lot of fun um it ended really it yeah it ended really
nicely too i got to see uh the amazing digital circus with uh bca megaman and the fourth member
of the meme team okay i had so much fun like driving there was was already fun we had a fun
little conversation
um then the the movie theater experience was fun as well um the the movie was it was better than
we i thought at least um uh we may do a reviewers throughout the ages on it you know maybe yeah um
uh the people behind us oh my god they gasp like every literally everything they were not too
annoying though yeah that was that was a lot of fun yeah i think that was a lot of fun yeah i think
that was a good part i mean they were like kids but like they weren't that annoying yeah they
listen they were kids i didn't i didn't care that they were yeah that they were doing everything it
was just funny um and this how oh wait no i can't say that because that's just it's like a huge
spoiler um i'll say i can censor something big happens and like a full like not even 30 seconds
after it happens a full like two minutes go by
and they're like oh my god that just happened
like like they didn't put together the extremely obvious thing that just got showed on screen
yeah it was it was really funny um but yeah we had a lot of fun watching it then a lot of
a lot of fun talking on the way home megaman talked about how like
die hard was made because some dude ran over a box or something i don't know
yeah the story was like the guy who i think was like the creator of the movie he was driving down
on a highway during the night and there was a refrigerator box in the middle of the road
and people he saw people like passing by it and he was like heading straight for it and he like
and he like thought in his head and you know what i'm gonna do it i'm gonna run over this box and
see what happens and so he did run over it there was nothing in the box surprisingly and he was
perfectly fine he was safe and he kind of got this idea of like having like this like
daredevil like god i should wait personality and he kind of got the idea of using that for
die hard so next time if you need an idea just run over a box yeah
i do remember some of it but i don't know the full thing i remember watching it on the movies
that made us on netflix so if you guys want to know what i'm talking about watch the episode of
the movies that made us talking about die hard and that was that kind of interesting that he
got the idea from just running over an empty refrigerator box and then zuble cried
uh there was more digital to circus yeah um so yeah i had a lot of fun on my birthday um
yeah it was a lot of fun uh oh yeah um raf and target video hopefully will start being worked on
uh probably last week of this month um so yeah look forward to that i'm very excited to do it um
so yeah uh
sunset saga sunset saga now sunset saga is going really well um this summer this summer i'm
dude it's this summer this summer as in this month next month or this summer okay
this summer don't worry soon no no not soon now you know i've got a lot of money in my steam wallet
i really need to spend it on something borderlands 4 actually oh yeah yeah you're right i can't do
that um but i keep on forgetting
so yeah uh sunset saga now um oh yeah uh delta room chapter 5 is coming out this month very
excited for that um uh no luigi's mansion 4 can't have that happening right yeah it was indirect
stupid uh yeah literally like the only new nintendo game they showed and it's not technically even new
because it's a remake is the ocarina of time remake which i'm really excited for but i mean i
mean i'm really excited for it and i'm really excited for it and i'm really excited for it and
they showed like nothing they didn't show a new game by nintendo which is not the only zelda game
i've enjoyed is the one on nintendo land it's a good game i'm not playing them right
what i said maybe i'm not playing them right maybe or not oh yeah also nintendo switch sports resort
but like the first one sucked so not really sure this one's going to be any better but yeah no
luigi's mansion 4 which means the direct suck
um just joking just joking very excited for ocarina of time remake uh that's it
i'm mbca i've been super megaman 10 and i'm rem tgm thank you all for listening to an episode
of memes thrall ages we'll see you all later goodbye and happy birthday to daniel happy
birthday daniel happy birthday daniel you really think i'd let this day pass quietly
also happy birthday yay and happy birthday to me bye
Thank you.
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
The "Happy Birthday Daniel" meme originated from an AI-generated video of Subaru Natsuki from *ReZero* wishing someone a birthday, referencing a scene where he climbs stairs and says, "Did you really think I'd let this day pass quietly?"
The meme spread rapidly on TikTok and Reels in 2026, with fans reenacting and editing the video, turning it into a viral joke within the *ReZero* fandom despite the original scene being only a brief, non-essential moment in the book.
The video is entirely AI-generated, with no hand-drawn content, and its humor stems from the absurdity of a character with a "climbing" persona wishing a birthday to a random person, blending internet culture with anime fandom.
Summary:
The podcast discusses the origin and spread of the "Happy Birthday Daniel" meme, which began as an AI-generated video of Subaru Natsuki from the anime *ReZero* making a birthday wish. " The meme gained traction on TikTok and Reels in 2026, where fans reenacted and edited it into humorous videos. Despite the original scene being brief and not central to the story, it resonated with fans due to its ironic and relatable tone.
The video is fully AI-generated, with no hand-drawn elements, and its popularity highlights how internet culture adapts anime moments into viral, out-of-context memes. The creators note the meme's humor lies in the absurdity of a character with a "climbing" persona making a birthday wish, blending fan fiction with internet meme culture. They also touch on other memes like "domer" and "I'm cranking 90s morty," criticizing them as tired or repetitive.
The episode ends with a celebration of Daniel’s birthday, a nod to the meme’s origin, and a reflection on the evolving nature of meme culture, including AI-generated content and fan-driven humor. The discussion also includes fan reviews, a fan poll on favorite podcast eras, and a light-hearted commentary on gaming trends, such as Fortnite’s sprite collection. The overall tone is celebratory, humorous, and reflective of the community’s engagement with internet memes and anime fandom.
FAQs
The meme originated from an AI-generated video where Subaru Natsuki from ReZero wishes someone named Daniel a happy birthday, using a scene from the book where he climbs stairs. The video was first posted on TikTok in March 2026 and quickly went viral, amassing millions of views.
It's popular because it combines a recognizable character from ReZero with a lighthearted, humorous birthday message. The scene from the book where Subaru climbs stairs and says 'Did you really think I'd let this day pass quietly?' resonates well with fans, making it a relatable and shareable moment.
Yes, it's based on a scene from the book version of ReZero, not the anime. The original scene shows Subaru climbing stairs and falling, which fans have interpreted as a metaphor for perseverance. The AI video parodies this moment by having Subaru wish someone a birthday.
Yes, every version of the video is AI-generated. As the host notes, no single video was hand-drawn or created by a person; all are produced using AI tools to generate personalized profile pictures and videos.
The meme spread rapidly through TikTok and Instagram Reels, with users reenacting the original video, creating edits, and adding humorous commentary. By May 2026, it had become a widespread fan meme within the ReZero community.
No, the stairs scene is a minor, brief moment in the book and not central to the plot. It's often described as a 'zero out of ten' scene, but fans have embraced it as a symbol of perseverance, which makes it a perfect meme moment.
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