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Memes Throughout the ages episode 287: Happy Birthday Daniel! (RemTGM's Birthday Special)

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Memes Throughout the ages episode 287: Happy Birthday Daniel! (RemTGM's Birthday Special)

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.

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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. Uh. Uh. Uh. Uh. Uh. 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:

  1. 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?"
  2. 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.
  3. 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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