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Memes Throughout the ages episode 288: What’s 9 + 10?

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Memes Throughout the ages episode 288: What’s 9 + 10?

The podcast explores the origin and evolution of the "21" internet meme, which began on Vine in 2013 with a video where a young boy incorrectly states that 9 plus 10 equals 21, prompting a humorous reaction from his brother. The clip quickly spread across platforms through remixes, parodies, and social media shares, becoming a widely recognized internet phenomenon. The meme gained significant traction as fans created content like YouTube edits, TikTok compilations, and even a viral "Judgment Day" event on September 10, 2019, where users celebrated the date as a symbolic coming-of-age moment. The meme's longevity is evident in its continued use in gaming communities, meme culture, and as a sound effect in videos, such as those in Rocket League. Despite Vine’s closure, the meme endured through fan-made content and digital sharing. A notable moment in the podcast’s discussion involves a hoax about the "21 kid" being missing, which later became a topic of internet curiosity. The podcast also highlights how the meme has influenced online discourse, including references to real-world events and internet culture, such as the use of the phrase in video game content and social media commentary. Over time, the meme has transitioned from a simple joke into a shared cultural touchstone, demonstrating how internet humor evolves and remains relevant across generations.

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Hello, my name is RemTGM, and I'm BCN, and I'm SuperMegaMan10, and welcome to Memes Throughout the Ages. I'm listening to Spotify, what's going on, sorry, my phone's tripping, tripping off the power, you know, no one man should have all that. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the pod, yeah, I can't stop the hours, anyways, welcome back to the podcast, everyone, I hope you're all having a good week, I would say that I'd be having an awful week if Bully Deluxe was not dropping tonight, that's right. Who says it's dropping tonight? Who says it's dropping tonight, Kanye, am I just, oh, shut up, don't do it, I see the speech bubble, oh no, Jack's toys, yeah, that's what I thought, good job, anyway, what was I going to say? I don't, something about, yeah, yeah, yeah, what if Kanye is dropping tonight? If he's, like, just doing all the edits right now, and just doesn't drop it tonight. Well, if he does all the edits right now, that's actually what he did with Bully, so that means, so, okay, because it's EA, if he, so if he's doing that right now, that means it'll drop tomorrow morning, probably, like, 5 a.m. Why doesn't he just release it now? Last minute updates, you know. Sure. So, yeah, yeah, moving on to it. By the way, I will stop the episode if he drops and go through the track list. Um, that's, hey, but that's probably not going to happen, but if it does, fair warning. Rem, I literally had a conversation with you about not understanding people who, like, meet ride musicians. What? And you said that you agreed. When was this? Like, like, two years ago. Well, it had to have been, like, like, three, because it would have been before EA, because I've been glazing EA for, like, three years now. Oh, okay. Well, you know, it's, I, I didn't, I hadn't heard EA before, so. Okay. Mega Man. All right. Hey. Yeah, Rem, Rem, Rem. Hey. Say a thing. Super Mega Man 10, what is our meme for today? Our meme for today is 21. Wouldn't it be crazy if we've done this meme? We haven't, though, right? Because you checked. I feel like we're, okay, hold on, I'm checking it right now, because I don't trust either of you. Because I swear we've done this before, but I didn't see it. I don't trust either of you. I feel like we've, we've, we've talked about doing it before, at the very least. This, that feeling we need more of, the hate and just drop more love, guaranteed. I wish I could just, like, I think I could just put 21 into it. It would have been 9 plus 10. What's 9? I'm just gonna put 9 plus, or 9 plus, 9 plus, 9 plus. What are you, what are you doing? I, I kept on putting in different variations of 9 plus. Oh, I see. Okay, so we haven't done 21. Okay. Yeah. I swear we've done this. So. It really feels like we did. Well, anyway, apparently we haven't done it. If we have done it, um. Yeah, we haven't. I even searched the word 21. We haven't done it. Okay. Well, ladies and gentlemen, uh, yeah, that's our meme for today is 9 plus 10, uh, is 21. That's a classic. It is a classic. That's why I feel like we've, we've done it. I know we, we've definitely talked about doing it. Yeah. Yeah, we have. But now we are actually doing it. So, okay. Of course I closed out of the information. There we go. So nine plus 10 equals 21, uh, 21 or nine plus 10, depending on what you want to call it is a video from vine where, which is now gone. If you don't remember what vine is or weren't around during that time, vine was a place similar to Tik TOK in a way. But videos on there were only six seconds long. So people would usually make very short skits. Um, Thomas Sanders, Disney skits. Yeah. And, uh, with friends like that, literally his intro takes up like two seconds of the video. How did he do pranks in like four seconds? Thomas Sanders. Cause he would, you would do Disney pranks with friends and like that, that already takes up like two seconds. He had like four seconds left. I'm gonna be honest when you said that I was, I thought you were talking about Bernie Sanders for a minute. I, yeah. Cause Dr. Fauci, like that's what I was thinking of, you know, Dr. Fauci. What is this guy's name again? Martin Martin Luther King. What are you talking about? Well, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. is his name? Martin Luther King? No, the other guy. Thomas Sanders? No, Malcolm X. Oh, okay. No, I'm joking. I mean, Thomas Sanders, yeah. I'm talking about Thomas Sanders. Oh, I remember this guy. Wait, isn't, didn't this guy do the Fauci thing? No. Are you sure? The Fauci thing was just some random kid. This guy looks like I'm Alex. Yeah, a little bit, but like, no, Thomas probably doesn't beat his wife. That was just some random kid. Potato, potato. This, this guy really does look like I'm Alex, but I hope he doesn't beat his girlfriend. Oh, he looks like a mix between I'm Alex and typical gamer. Yeah. All right. So that guy used to make vines so that if you forgot what a vine is. Somehow. Now the video this meme is from is usually called what's nine plus 10, 21 kid or the 21 meme. And this sparked a huge, I don't even know what I was going to say. I just started a very fast growing meme, uh, because I don't know. The internet was very simple back then. I mean, it really is now too. Still stupid kid. He thinks nine plus 10 is 21. That's the entire joke right there is, uh, the dude in the video asks the kid, uh, what's nine plus 10. And then the kid says 21. And then the guy says, you stupid. No, for, for, she goes, I work. Uh, he goes, you stupid. No, I'm not. What's not plus 10, 21. Oh, I'm warping. Yeah, you are. I'm sorry. Slat said 21 one time. And then, and then 21, it just started laughing for like 10 seconds. I was like, is this how you got to the, is this how you got to this meme? Yeah. Oh really? Yeah. Because I was, I was trying to find that specific one, but I couldn't find it. So, I just did 21. I've never watched anything slat related. You showed. He's funny. I will. I always, uh, the reason I never did it because I always like, yeah, I always like grouped him in with those people. Yeah. You know, he's nothing like them. He's not like us. I'm so I'm happy to say that song has been off my playlist for years now. It was never on mine anyway. All right. So after this video was released, a lot of people started, um, to show it support, like it, comment, share it, all that stuff. And then it would get reposted a whole bunch of times. People would start putting it in meme compilations. Um, cause that's, those were a thing back in the day. I'm sure they still are now, but like, yeah, but they're all only. Like, you think anybody out there is still posting like vine compilations? Let's see. Vine. Yeah. It searched vine compilation and sort by new. Oh boy. Wow. Um, search by, let me, let me see if there's one today. Um, I'm seeing Tik TOK compilations. But that's no vine compilation. Um, hold on. I should, I searched by today. So that's, uh, let's try this year. yeah uh five months ago vines only ogs will understand jesus dude just give up dude they're literally for you he did rivalry vine compilation i don't even know what that even means that was oh i'm probably thinking just it's just vines but they just add the names of the characters on it what are you talking about i've seen stuff where it's like it's it's a vine but they add the names of like characters oh i remember those like stupid vines uh in undertale on crack where they just like put santa's face on all the characters do you know what i'm talking about no you you never watched undertale on crack uh let me see that video where it just stole a ton of undertale animations and stuff and then like sliced between it was in a chasington video and then like like sliced between like the animations and stuff it just like put vine compilations with like the undertale characters faces on them i've never seen this you should watch it oh it was six years ago that's why it is all stolen content but um yeah hold on sorry all right back to the i was checking if it dropped my fat um so uh people would start to do what they did back in the day which is they'd make remixes where they remember when people used to put effort into like making something sound like another so like um shooting stars they'd always do that one they'd like take a oh yeah yeah like a video and they they'd uh or or part of remixes which are for some reason still a thing can we please stop doing that can we know someone who still does those yeah nick cheesy stop yeah i think you're literally like you're you're pushing 20 you just stop bro you're literally 40 he's probably gonna still be doing this at 40 it's all logo kids that still do the sparta like remixes because they're all like perpetually stuck in 2016 yeah if you guys want to hear us talk about logo kids we talk about them like literally all the time on the patreon yeah not the shellen or anything you uh episode based on that like low house it's a different thing that are like obsessed with weird like old stuff we should we should do that at some point a logo kids video uh episode anyway back back to 21 yes yeah i was out of that at the 21 so um people would start doing remixes parodies of it a lot of some people would recreate it or just like um recreate it but with the original audio like the lighting was perfect i think i sent it to you uh was it how long ago was it i don't know it was like a week ago but the lighting was absolutely perfect it looked like the actual video except the guy was like an adult and was white oh yeah i feel like i remember seeing that um but yeah that's what the the meme is uh kid a kid is stupid and that's funny because he said because he said the wrong thing get it yeah i actually got in i got in well i didn't get in trouble that's not what we shouldn't call it in trouble um i was singing this is like extremely niche um in second grade i was i kept like one day uh just saying 20 what's what's nine plus 10 21 over and over again you know like as kids do yeah back in the day um and i remember at one point i was also singing um um sonic sonic song um sonic you started denied other one uh um metropolis mayhem yeah uh yeah so i was singing oh yeah and then you said vector's line where he says suicide and the teacher got mad at you yeah well actually it wasn't even the teacher it's just some kid she was like oh my god i'm so sorry i'm so sorry i'm so sorry i'm so sorry i'm so sorry i'm so sorry i'm so sorry i'm so sorry i'm so sorry you can't say that it's like i why do you care you're not the teacher i just reported your account on accident tax i'm sorry oh yeah that's real by the way we we saw that we were bored during the uh bully listening party no i i'm absolutely convinced that is real yeah if your account gets banned i'm sorry this girl doesn't listen to reports anyway i i know uh 21 yeah he's it's like it's oh my are you yawning dude it's mega man how old are you you what you what you're in your like 50s yes you think in our 50s we'll be talking about like the gentrification of um what the i don't know the gentrification of something i don't know luigi's mansion uh they're gonna make like luigi's woke shim and dude he's a girl see that's what they're gonna do they're gonna make luigi trans and they're gonna make they're gonna they're gonna get rid of his the poltergust and they're gonna give him the the the the polter woke the pronoun gus the pronoun gus and uh the new normate and there's gonna be professor e them and he uh they're going to um and there's gonna be uh um what are we doing there's gonna be queen boo there's gonna be queen boo king boo's gonna transition and instead of helen grave instead of helen gravely helen gravely's gonna be lesbian oh we just go back to the b please and then instead of helen gravely we're gonna be queen boo and then instead of helen gravely we're gonna be queen boo and then instead of helen gravely we're gonna be queen boo and then we're gonna be a mansion they're gonna be inside of the white house and they're gonna be there's gonna be the the ghost of captain kirk and and uh you know yeah all right listen this relates to the meme that's so loud um jesus christ go go ahead go to 21 because it was for get it 41 21 you know i got it thank you they gentrified both of those um okay i'm going i'm going so yeah that's that's the meme uh actually we have to play the audio clip we'll play that here uh here's the meme you stupid no not what's nine plus 10 21 you stupid sorry i didn't mute myself because megaman just coughed really loud uh yeah that's a good i'm pretty sure i saw something about this that the the kid and the brother redid the meme and then posted it on tiktok or instagram or whatever did it just not blow up no i i am i misremembering 21 meme recreated by original people um i swear they like recreated it it sounds familiar i can't find the recreation but i swear they did uh all right so yeah that's basically that's what the meme is there's not really much more to it yeah it's just kids stupid dude says kids stupid what's nine plus 10 it's 21 you stupid uh all right bca can you tell us the origin of this meme where it came from all that jazz you know yes i can actually this this brings me back uh in middle school i was t-posing on the speakers and i asked someone what nine plus 10 equaled is that like do you like thank you do you like like stay awake sometimes thinking about yeah i like think about i'm like wow that's horrible it's like really bad yeah anyway on june 22nd 2013 vine user dray heup msu and uh what west jesus what are these names west rose cran published the original video and within eight years the post received more than 30 million loops which was like their their version of views and seven hundred seven thousand likes seven hundred seven thousand likes seven hundred seven thousand hundred seven say this word for me seven hundred and seven thousand thank you lason six hundred five thousand six hundred five whatever dude you get the point revines which is like a repost i guess kind of not i never used vine rem did you have vine no i made you a vine of course i didn't have i don't know what it was well okay we had diddy.it okay shut up you're done did leander drake you know i i don't think i don't remember anyone ever even using vine i just remember them watching vine compilations yeah maybe that's why it shut down yeah maybe uh so yeah in the vine a man talks to a boy it's his brother and uh he claims that he's stupid the boy goes no he goes no i'm not and the guy asks what's nine plus ten and the kid answers 21 and the guy goes you're stupid the joke is the kid is stupid because he thinks nine plus ten is 21 and uh this this was like this was a joke for a very long time it was like like the number 21 my mom was in a movie called 21 she what i forgot about that yeah she was a background extra megaman did you know that yeah i knew i've known this for a long no not you megaman why obviously you knew it megaman you knew that right yeah about your mom yeah yeah only during that one new year's oh okay well uh one of the tags for the 21 meme says hot n-word uh this is a child okay why is bobby schmurda a tag who's that i don't know bobby bobby kodak i've heard his name before i just don't know who he is why does shadow oh why's shad man here x shadow that's great uh yeah shad man can actually go kill himself i hope he does that no you can't how's he not in prison still oh because he got out well yeah that's that's usually what happens when people aren't in prison i don't know how he's not still well because because no one ever imprisons child predators um he's not a child predator but i'm gonna call him one anyway because he is one but um no one ever imprisons child predators for as long as they should be aka life uh yeah uh yeah oh this is what i was remembering people thought that the 21 kid was missing oh they did yeah like he got like abducted or something he just thought it was him he did not go missing do you think people just like immediately stopped caring as soon as they found out it's not the 21 kid like ah it doesn't matter anymore no i yeah yeah right there was a missing child case and everyone thought it was a 21 kid and so the the guy literally like the guy who made the video uploaded the video with his with his brother aka the 21 kid going like hey he's not missing he's right here it was really weird i kind of remember that i don't know i like i could not tell you what it was like why they thought he was missing maybe they just like looked similar i learned about this a while ago like a year or two ago now so i don't know all the details but yeah that was the thing that happened i forgot about that this is super off topic but what is that wallace and gromit mask meme i don't get it fairs it's uh it's an the the original one is a just some dude wearing a mask and doing the uh like i don't know like i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't i don't remember yeah um oh so it's not originally wallace no oh that honestly might be a i i don't even know it's either a screenshot that someone edited or they just told they had to put wallace over it anyway yeah that's that's uh that's that yeah all right super mega oh i just saw a word you're gonna have to censor here don't make sure not to say that word yeah uh uh super mega man 10 can you tell us how this meme spread where it came from uh no how how this meme spread um yeah the first known remix of the vine was posted by user bra where it received over 7.14 million loops 185 000 likes and 145 000 revines another remix was posted a few days later although the original vine was deleted the video was re-uploaded to youtube it got deleted on july 7 2014 by alondra maribos well i mean yeah it got deleted it doesn't exist anymore oh i thought i thought like it meant like he deleted the video on purpose oh maybe they did and then again on july 9th by youtubers shadow subscribe by december 14 2014 morelos's upload had received over 5.7 million views and 37 000 likes and shadows upload had received 3.7 million views and 28 000 likes later on august 29th youtuber user swiftstar352 uploaded a song featuring audio from the vine remixed with hot and work by rap star bobby schmorarda schmurda which was one of the nation's top songs at the time the song reached 14.6 million views and 108 000 likes by december 2014. it has since been deleted but a re-upload by simply bogsy has received over 390 000 views as of april 2016. the child in the video whose identity remains unknown has often been referred to as the 21 kid on october 13th the parody website puzzlers released a hoax article detailing how the child had run away the article noted that the child had left a goodbye note the child whose real name is abib sties ran away from his home saturday night and is currently being searched for throughout the whole baltimore area why would you like fake this i i don't know that's really weird authorities say the child left a goodbye note in his bedroom that read i i tired of everyone laughing forever now if you wanted to find me the only clue i leaving is 21. so stupid why why would you even do this i don't know the internet was such a weird place back then yeah yeah post on several message message boards including ign why was ign posting what the hell does ign post on several message boards including ign why was ign posting what the hell does ign have to do with this i don't know indicated that some people fell for the hoax a complimentary youtube video was really released by the user franklin colton and received over 650 000 views as of april 2016. it is proven by youtuber wavy websurf that this is the 21 kid because this video was originally uploaded on dre abem sue's vine page um we have a little uh shout out to wavy websurf he's the entire reason why this uh podcast even started because i watched his video when i got the ad for wavy web search is pretty cool yeah he is i love his videos if i did if i wasn't watching his uh video on the uh finger in the chili at taco bell or whatever it was there would be no mtta yeah anyways back to this all right on october 3rd 2020 wavy websurf posted a video deep diving into the hoax gaining over 3.7 million views in a year in summer 2019 memes based on the vine regained popularity on twitter ifunny and instagram before april 4th on an unknown user posted a not funny didn't laugh video featuring a still image from the vine on april 4th 2019 the video was re-uploaded to youtube where it gained over 28 100 views within four months on june 10th 2019 youtuber use youtube user blue chicken re-uploaded an awesome he finally meme based on the video made by an unknown author in the following month the video gained further spread on ifunny twitter and on instagram on july 1st 2019 twitter user tim timotainment posted a not funny didn't laugh edit of the vine featuring donkey kong with the video accumulating over 413 000 views in one month and the tweet gaining over 14 500 retweets and 46 000 100 likes in july 2019 multiple notable edits of the vine were posted on twitter ifunny and instagram including notable versions by zanko and tunneling og professional r word.mp4 and yep anthony we're like yep randy get it Thank you. In January 2021, Twitter account 21count opened with the purpose of counting down the days until December 10th, 2021, the day when 9 plus 10 really equals 21, according to their bio. The account's first tweet was posted on January 16th and reads 237 days until September 10th, 2021. The page posted daily tweets counting down the days and grew a significant following in the eight months leading up to the date. On August 23rd, 21count posted when the day comes on 9, 10, 21, he will decide your fate, along with a screenshot from the 9 plus 10 equals 21 video, gaining over 80,000 likes and 10,000 retweets in two weeks. On September 7th, Instagram page SpoopyDoo posted an image of a cityscape with the 9 plus 10 equals 21 child looming over it and the text 9, 10, 21, Judgment Day at the bottom. They would never forget. Five years later, it would be a different kind of thing. Okay, wait, so the internet has been making, like, random children gods, like, for a while. Yeah, and they don't know yet. But in five years, there's going to be a different kind of Judgment Day. What? What? Oh, wait, four years. August. Oh, August. No. December 10th, 2025. What is that? What, 12? Captain Kirk. Oh. How do you have his, like, death date memorized? I, wait, is he, like, returning? What happened? No, 25. No. What happened last year? Because the date is 9, 10, 21. Oh. Four years later. Okay. Sure. Judgment Day. How, how, what? Judgment Day, the aliens, gadag-a-dee-gadag-a-dayo-fuddle-finger. Oh, whoa. The post gained over 46,000 likes in two days. On the same day, Instagram page chronic.memesv2 posted, an image macro of the child with the text rating three days until 9, 10, 21, gaining over 30,000 likes in two days. On September 9th, the 21 Counts countdown tweet made at 1.48 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, gaining over 51,000 likes and 7,500 retweets in eight hours. The post reads, one day until 9, 10, 21, prepare. By the same date, the account. The account boasted. Yeah, boasted. Boasted over 98,000 followers. At midnight on September 10th, 21 Count posted, today is 9, 10, 21, a video edit featuring the 21 originally, the 21 kid originally by Twitter and YouTuber taxpayer gaining over 110,000 likes and 32,000 retweets. In under a day, 21 count also encouraged followers to spread the hashtag 9, 10, 21 on the day, which quickly hit Twitter's trending page. A number of meme accounts celebrated the day by posting video edits and 21 video, one kid video, many jokes about a rapture on the day. For example, Instagram page, grandmas.bud posted a meme about the 21 kid manifesting in their room, gaining over 160,000 views in 11 hours. Instagram users, salad, snake, and re, oh, repost Randy. What? Repost Randy. Yo, Randy. I hate you. I hope you die. Yeah. Actually, Randy sold out. Randy sucks, man. Stupid seller. Also posted a tribute celebrating the day, gaining over 88,000 views and 151,000 views in under 11 hours. Respectively. Sorry. Are you still giving Randy money to know that's not happening? Many social media users changed their profile pictures to the 21 kid on the day. Twitter users also celebrated the occasion under the relevant hashtag, posting their favorite 21, 21 kid memes. Twitter user T O G S T 52 Y T posted a meme showing the 21 kid meme in the morning. T O G S T 52 Y T posted a meme showing the 21 kid over a map of North America with the caption current US times on map hashtag 9 10 21, gaining over 8,500 likes in under 10 hours on the same day. Twitter user K Y S S N D U posted a neon Genesis Evangelion edit reference to the 21 kid meme. T O G S T 52 Y T posted a meme showing the 21 kid over a map of North America with the caption current US times on map hashtag 9 10 21, gaining over 8,500 likes in under 10 hours. On the same day, Twitter user K Y S S Q I N D U posted a neon Genesis Evangelion edit reference to the 21 kid meme. from seeing the meme, gaining over 34,000. 3,400 likes in a similar span of time. And that is it. That was a lot. That was. Transition. Shinji, get in the 21. Shinji, bring that soldier boy. Rem, who do you think is stronger, 21 kid or Mason? I. Uh. I mean. I don't. Okay, let's think about it logically here, okay? And then half a deuce joins them. Sure. Alright, so, hold on. Let me see here. Let me power scale them accurately. Let me process this. Let me break it down for you, Mark. Alright, so, if we were to look here. I'd say. The 6'7 kid's very scrawny. I don't. But so. Ooh, hold on now. No, no, no, no, no. The thing is, the 6'7 kid is older. Well, not anymore. Oh, actually, oh my god, you're right. The 21 kid is older. Yeah. And the 21 kid is also. He's got some muscle, honestly. Even for a kid, that's like. That's kind of insane. Yeah. I think the 21 kid. Even if we're going, like, based off, like, past era, like, meme era, original trilogy, all that, I still think the 21 kid's gonna win. That's fair. What about you two? What do you guys think? Yeah, I think so. Yeah, it seems fair. I thought Mason would win at first, but I remembered, this kid isn't, like, 5 anymore, so. Anyway. What do we. Say the thing. What. What do I say? I forgot. Uh, what do we think about. Oh, yeah, what do we think about this? What do you think? Classic. Instant classic. Did you almost just fall? No. Oh, okay. Yeah, I think it's. It's still pretty funny. I'd give it, like, an 8. 8 out of 10. Pretty good. Yeah, it's still funny that you're here from time to time. Yeah. Because I was getting out of the house at 21. Yeah, I, uh, I agree. I think it's a classic. Happy to still see that people, uh, bring it up sometimes. Um, people. People use it as a sound effect in, like, I don't know, videos, like, videos that are, like. Have you seen those Rocket League ones that are, like, in audio? Usually, like, someone playing for, like, playing Fortnite with kids. Yeah. And they'll, like, spam, like, a soundboard throughout it. And the 21 is sometimes one that I'll hear on that. So it's, like, it's cool that it's still used nowadays. And, obviously, there's a recreation that's long ago. Sorry, I didn't mean to cut you off. Do you know about Hapadeuce? Mmm. Sounds familiar. Let's see here. Just Google Hapadeuce. You've seen this kid. Well, maybe not seen because he's playing Rocket League, but. You've heard him. Heard him. Come on, let me hear it. Let me. Let's see here. It's the corn. A bean that helps it up. A Hapadeuce. It's Hapadeuce. A big, dirty thing. It's corn. Do you like this, you wake up? Yeah. I'm like, okay. It's a boy. Yeah, I. Yeah, I've seen this. I've seen this guy. Right. He's, you know. You know? Yeah. He's something. Anyway. Yeah. I think the consensus is this is still a good meme. Oh, yeah. I think so. Yeah. All right. So, uh. Yeah. Yes. See you all in the new game. Yeah, yeah, yeah. See you all in the new games. Goodbye. Hello, and welcome to the Meme Games. Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Meme Games, the part of the show where we play games based on this episode and episodes before. RemTGM, 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 and past episodes. We have a pick-a-word that we call the Meme World. Whoever has the most points by the end of the season wins the Meme Games. We're getting very close to the end of the season. The end of the season is two episodes from now. I hope everyone's very excited. The next season will be Season 30, and Season 30 is the season where we have Episode 300. Well, did we say what we're going to do? Well, we didn't say it on the actual episode. It's fine. I was going to have us say it during 290, not as a grand reveal or anything, but just because that'll be a place for people to know about it. Maybe it would be funnier if we just go there when there's nobody else protesting and we just protest. See, that's what I was thinking we should do. Yeah, make a fool of ourselves in front of the entire town. Yeah. Anyway. Yeah, that'll be fun. We'll talk more about that in Episode 290, guys. Don't worry. So, yeah, we have a pick. I already said that, didn't I? Wait, no, I didn't. No, I didn't. We have a pick or a wheel that we called the Meme Games. We have a bunch of games that we can play on it. Wait, yeah, wait. I did. I did. Let's spin that wheel. Spin that wheel. Spin that wheel. Spin that wheel. Spin that wheel. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to callback time. Welcome back to callback time. How do we play this one? Good question. Um, let's see. So, in callback time, we need to. Ah, I got it. All right. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to callback time. What we must do in this Meme Game is when it is our turn, we will ask one of the hosts to give us, um, give the person whose turn it is, um, a moment from the podcast to callback to, and if they get it, uh, if they get who said it, but not who said it, if they get what, should we do who, what episode or who said it? Cause I feel like it's who said it. It's who said it. Okay. Yeah. I wasn't sure if that was a different meme. So it, uh, if you get whoever said it, right, you're right. Yeah. I remember this now. If you get whoever said it, uh, right, then you get a point and you win the Meme Games. All the jazz, you know? Uh, so we have a pick a wheel called the name wheel has all 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 spin to see who goes first. Mega Man, you're going first in today's Meme Games. Let's spin again. So you go second and third. Why can't I hide this? There we go. Please don't pick me cause I can't really remember. Oh my God. Mega Man. Rab, you're going second, which means I'm going last, unfortunately. Uh, shut the fuck up. What are you showing Mega Man? I keep on punching my mic. Sorry. I keep on playing a funny family guy video, but, um, uh, yeah, you guys ready? Yes. Yeah. All right. Three, two, one. Let's do some callbacks. Uh, I want BC to give me a callback. You want? No. You know? No. Yay. Yes. Yay. Yay. All right. Fine. Fine. Fine. Were you going to have BCA not? Were you going to have Mega Man pick me? What? No. Okay. I didn't know what you guys were talking about, man. You said, you said me. You guys speak. No, I know he said you, but then you guys were talking, saying stuff. I don't know. What are you? Are you okay? Yes, I am okay. You're not okay. Sure. Everyone's saying that it's out. It didn't drop. I'm sorry. I didn't. Stop. What? Put your phone away. It is away. I. Take those sneakers off. It is. Why did Jay-Z just drop something? Kill yourself. Oh, crap. Put your phone away. I'm sorry. I put it. It's away. It's away. Oh, my God. It just dropped. Oh, my God. It just dropped. I'm not even joking. What? Oh. Okay. Okay. Did it actually? Yes, but this looks really bad. He added two songs. I'm going to kill myself. Um. Okay. Anyway. Yes. Yes. What do you think? If you won't stop speaking. Well, then you think we're trying to entertain the fans. We don't need to stop speaking. If we stop speaking, then it's nothing. Okay. Okay. Okay. So, we're going to talk Mega Man. Okay. Well, BCA is thinking of something. I'm going to go over the track list because this looks kind of. Um. I don't know what I'm doing, but I'm going to go over the track list because I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know. Cal back? Cal, Cal, Cal. You're right. I'm trying to do Quokkanundrum and the one that we've been trying to do. I know, I can do some of the Quokkanundrum. We got meme after, uh, well, do you guys want to do meme after meme or Quokkanundrum? Meme after meme. What is wrong with you? I want to do meme after meme. What is the matter with you? I can't remember quotes. It's going to, it's going to. Okay, yeah, you're, you're the minority, buddy. We're the majority. Tricky. Two songs. One of them has already, has already, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. This is pissing me off. Quokkanundrum, yes or no? No. I don't care. Which one, which one do you want to do? I don't. Okay. I want to do Quokkanundrum meme. Rock, paper, scissors. Okay, fine. Mega Man's going to win. I just won. You're doing Quokkanundrum and you're going to like it. Don't do any Quokkanundrum. No. You're doing Quokkanundrum. Okay. Here's my. No. come on i literally can't i'm sorry dude this is literally why i said don't pick me it is it is it is one line out of hundreds of lines that we have said on this podcast can't think of one i'm trying to but i just can't just like i'm just trying to go back to remember anything it's hard okay oh my god there's new mixing on new mixing on every song oh we're back sorry i need people to know that there's more to it no they don't okay well okay well i'll say put one or else they put one wait no never mind what you can't think of one why are you why are you interrupting me i'm trying to talk about i'm not talking about the album i'm talking about the meme game i didn't i couldn't tell no he didn't put one in chat he quoted uh the the who's chris creek craft thing this is actually unbelievable mega man do you want me to do i can't remember when we have said on this dog what do you want a funny one you can't think of one funny line i'm trying to but i just can't like a rep you just wanna do you want me sure okay that should have how it should have stopped oh my god i'm going to execute you do it just do it already um let me think um you know too easy i was not saying glitches looking palmy but that was you yeah that was me um oh i know i'm on my period i don't remember this um you don't remember that i'm on my period yeah this is one of the one of us three right yes this is also this is also an old meme but one of us said it okay there's first of all there's no way this was me i just i don't believe it was you i feel like this is something mega man would have just said out of nowhere so i'm going mega man yeah you're right what did he say this uh i think we were all just like yelling at each other and i think when did the are you sure this happened i can't remember i swear this happened i swear to god this happened i do not remember this either happened on the podcast or it happened in like off the podcast i can't remember i feel like it did happen on the podcast i it was really funny i thought this would be a thing that you said no i would not say i was i was like weary of what we'd say wait so this was like a long time ago i think so i just i do not remember this at all i do maybe my brain is thinking of fake memories outcome memories uh okay but yeah oh yeah if this is fake then mega man said it fake yeah all right is mega man next oh so it's bca um okay let's see here cookie you give me one yeah what's cookie gotta say well he's sleeping right now because tiff small girl oh my god all right who's the person she's dating patrick mahomes who oh yeah that is kelsey oh oh tomato tomato glop glop equal up um go sports ball um wow um hold on um i'm going to look at our merch merch throughout i'm going to work in our wiki where's that question that's good um who said what he's talking to me he's asking why i asked one of the questions well i'm asking why you're asking a question about me asking my own question because you know the answer no yes you do yes you do who's who said who said bb90 is a very interesting character uh i'm pretty sure that was me uh well you're wrong that was you yeah uh i i'm looking at our merch because we put quotes on the back um yeah episode hoodies it was just me i remember it because it was i quoted something from the battlefront 2 video we were watching but i like misquoted it and then it turned into yeah he's a very interesting character because i didn't we go back to try and find the video and we just couldn't find it yeah i think we found i think we found it but he just like didn't say like something even close to that it's yeah made it up god that was actually just like born within the recesses of your mind that's horrible i can't believe i got that wrong yeah so megaman and rem both get a point i don't get a point because i'm stupid and wrong yeah um thanks from you're welcome from bully dropped um okay um we'll see you all in criticism castle goodbye hello everyone and welcome back to criticism castle the point of show where we review some guys all the way down under in the review section below sorry i said that so fast this is my third take because i kept on talking about it for so long i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm messing it up rem tgm what are our reviews for today it's all right it's all right all right so we've got uh three reviews today one from apple podcast 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 we're gonna start off with apple podcast here hold on i wonder if we have any reviews because haven't we like not had any we have not um let me see if we have any reviews let me see if we have one let me see here uh can one of you guys also remember uh remind me to ping ducko during the news for what thank you he has news oh okay um all right we do actually have one oh yay final uh this review is titled yeah i see what you did there this review is titled meme and it entails uh you should really do another dinosaur meme or even a godzilla meme plus almost done with the next jagu part also after the andromeda war is done i will make a spin-off of jagu and it does connect to the mtta verse whoa uh and this by that that that that that this is by underwater jaguar 855 thank you so much underwater jaguar for the five star right uh yes for the five star review next review also uh there there has to be some dinosaur memes have we done anything jurassic have we done welcome to jurassic park no we've done ye though which has dinosaurs that is a dinosaur you're right um well let's think about which one before everybody get down with the dinosaur anyway next review all right this next review coming from spotify let's see here welcome back ralsei see here thanks for the 200 gifted um all right we have a um i don't think i'm I've read this. We've read this. Sorry, my bad. B. and i see abc all right hold on hold on all right there we go got it wait uh sorry i am i'm i'm my brain is fried all right this review is titled nothing because it's on spotify and it entails crazy how bca gets so much hate when he's unironically my favorite member of the meme team lol bro he's legit the funniest guy on the team and i mean that also would i be considered to be in the mtta hall of fame i've been here for years basically had the most comments read to the point that to the point bca got annoyed i will never forget um i made songs that were used i made meme movies and updated y'all the whole way created a meme with others adding to it for the april fools episode and i'm still here and will be here for as long as i can this was by ecd if you could not already though yeah i feel like if there's ever if we ever do like a hollow thing or like notable people i feel like ecd will be in it yeah i think the two that are automatic are just are are ecd and dust yeah there's definitely more but like those two got to be in it immediately yeah um so yeah uh i think uh i assume this is five stars i have no idea i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i have no idea this is by ecd thank you so much ecd for the five-star review i'm so happy i'm your favorite uh remon caught jesus who's that remon jesus uh remon megaman are funny too thank you but thank you i'm happy you find me funny next review all right let's see you're going on to the criticism castle as i said before uh in the last episode we are now doing weekly criticism castle questions over on the discord server if you're not already on the in the discord server what are you doing join with the first link in the description so the question for this week was what is something you think each member of the meme team is doing well and what is something you think each member of the meme team can improve on i thought this was a really good question morty only one person answered it and guide didn't even answer it fully uh so you know maybe you think yes so maybe third time will be the charm oh i see jack's toys sorry didn't like the guy who like did art for that like do nick fuentes things or something i think so i don't know i saw that somewhere it was really funny all right we're gonna have one in a minute as well but we'll read the guy guides all right so guide does respond first he said i'd answer this but i'm not caught up on the pod yet um he'll get there don't worry uh and guide said uh based ca on my last observation is oh sorry based ca i got what he did because bca uh on my last observation is rem is a pretty cool developer and influencer and podcast and a discord mod ball right and like star wars uh i am all those things thank you very much uh bca is also pretty cool and does youtube like me but that is about it also really like star wars super mega man 10 is a very cool streamer but plays this dead game called night fort or whatever you call it and isn't adapting to any other game so he is cooked uh the secret i don't recall fortnite a dead game at all but fortnite is not a dead game not even close it has like 14 million players like all the time i tried i tried playing dead by daylight today on stream but since my borderland stream the dog for my steam deck had a weird thing mega man borderlands 2 stream am i money in a minute um eventually but not right now uh the secret fourth host is also pretty and then it's redacted because uh redacted uh also does redacted so yeah pretty cool um yeah the secret fourth host my secret my secret cousin rory knight is that that too niche for you guys rory knight yeah my secret is it like a roaring knight reference yeah it's a uh remember the no you won't i don't even know why i'm bothering uh ralph say is still typing his um do we want to move on and uh just read it when he's done yeah that's a good idea uh so so yeah we'll oh wait nope there it is oh wait nope he said yes all right all right so those are our reviews or at least for now we're gonna go back to him yeah so thank you so much for watching this video thank you so much to uh east sorry under our jaguar ecb and dust sands 10 for for answering the question uh in the reviews uh if you want to be in criticism castle next time make sure to leave a review five star or not it doesn't matter we just want to hear your criticism like the name implies uh news mega man yep uh fortnite sprites yep okay so uh this week we got new sprites we got the galaxy sprites and there are several variants for each and every one except for the burp being a that's his own thing uh i'm still trying to i'm still trying to find them and collect them including the ones that i weren't able to find before the galaxy is dropped it's pretty annoying like even the fortnite status account said that they would uh lower the chances of finding regular fire earth and water sprites and now you know how i feel when i was grinding with you yeah like i said yeah that's exactly what i was trying to say that's exactly how i feel it's true i feel like how you guys when you play pokemon and they said they were gonna lower those sprites and increase the chances of finding uh epic legendary and mythic sprites including including their variants but nope i'm still getting basic water earth and sprite water earth fire sprites which is really annoying because i want to be able to collect all these new sprites uh the uh concept royale started this week i submitted my my concept and surprisingly tim sweeney himself might have seen it he saw it on a reply for uh for it says it says he liked his post yes it said yeah on twitter it said that he liked my post but then that but now it says it doesn't if you go onto my tiktok and youtube you can see the proof but now it doesn't say it doesn't say it doesn't say it but it did say that the actual tim sweeney himself liked my my reply it literally was him he clicked on the account yeah i had to be i had to make sure that it was it was him and not some fake account it was so i may be lucky to get somewhere farther into this contest which i'm really excited about and i still think that i'm just i'm still i don't really have any thoughts on if i am going to win or not i'm just going to let fate decide if i do or not but i have very high hopes for where i'm going to go in this contest so please like cross your arms fingers buy a rabbit and throw out its photo no just buy a rabbit um and also make sure every morning and every night before you go to bed not to god for making me know when the question is yeah don't pray to god don't do that win this this con this contest because there are three winners and each of them will get their concept into the game and get 2500 please lord give me this one i'm gonna say i'm gonna say a prayer for for mega man real quick let's all take a moment of silence so i can say this all right all right tim sweeney if you can hear us right now please add super mega sprite 10 to the game it is mega man's dream to be put into fortnite in some capacity and it would make him very happy and tim you are a higher power than god himself um mega man said that so um uh add the sprite to the game please amen and also please epic epic games team please give me a really good score on my drawing epic games please delete my account but yeah i joined in the contest it's really cool i see i've been seeing all the other competitors there are some really good ones some drawn by kids uh there's there's a really nice one by this kid edward i i hope that kid runs he made a lot he made a pretty good sprite this guy named edward he made a mimic wait wait hold on what was his name edward hold on there's a there's a there's a video of it somewhere on tiktok difficult to put the sprites together uh there's some really good digital art and drawn uh there is ai and i'm hoping that none of those win this con win a winner spot in the wouldn't it be funny if all three of them all three spots were taken taken up by ai and then tim sweeney goes congratulations we're implementing ai into fortnite that'd be cool which they already did we're implementing generative ai into fortnite and if that happens then i'm going to be extremely pissed off because all that hard work i put into that into that drawing i did was for nothing it wasn't for nothing tim tim sweeney liked your post yeah allegedly you did but then he unliked it yeah but he did see it so that's a good thing tim sweeney you dirty dog so that's that's something that's yeah but i just hope that everybody else who's part of this i wish them all good luck and hope that one of them win including myself and let's just hope that no ai it's a winning spot in this amen are we still praying like i don't know sure the music digital circus will be leaving the item shop soon uh the uh animated dads came back for father's day and we also got rambo i guess i'm sure why not uh i was going to do a dead by daylight stream today but something stupid happened with my steam deck so i had to postpone the stream to tuesday i will play dead by daylight i just had to postpone it and uh that's really all i got video saturday oh maybe tomorrow actually no today actually yeah video today or tomorrow it's it's either if it's not done like i said this earlier if it's not done by the end of the week something horrible has happened uh it's almost done this might be my best one and it's it is 100 the best out of the i'm very excited for it yeah it's pretty good uh rem uh sunset saga now uh a lot of work done on it this week gonna be even more uh we're gonna be doing a lot of work on it this week as well as well as next week and uh you know all those times but the main thing here bully deluxe came out during the episode in the meme games obviously you guys heard it uh very excited um ducko is here right now he's listened to it a little bit is it he's listening to 21 he's listening to it 21 times that's what he's doing oh i got that one is it good that's all i need here is a yes or no that's all i need to hear all right so bully deluxe dropped um i'm gonna be honest with you i think that's all the news uh oh wait delta in chapter five is next week very excited for that oh really yeah i thought it was gonna take another like seven years no no no no no very excited for that um what else what else what else what else uh i was trying to think avatar live action season two next week maybe it'll be good i don't i don't know i i've i've hopes that maybe it won't be bad but you know have you seen season one yeah i did really good it would it would you know it was okay it was better than the movie than the live action movie i saw something it was like a theory about the app about avatar and it had to do with the the cabbage guy apparently there's like a theory that like each time the cabbage guy was there the fire nation would take over that specific nation harbinger fire nation or whatever you know sure over surfer if he was cool he's just he's just there to as like a gag but you know i i guess that's what years without almost any content does but anyway um yeah that's all the news i've got um ducco however before we do ralsei's um answer to the meme game question not meme game uh criticism castle question uh ducco has some news pertaining to a certain album on the way ducco yeah ducco why were you playing black ops 2 were you like possessed oh you said it's pretty fun oh got that one because i thought you said you hated shooters rem was talking about uh earlier how like one time you said that like you were like you hated shooter games and that you're never gonna play pod you're never gonna play uh what was it uh i think it was doom maybe yeah you said you're never gonna play cod i don't know maybe i'm making this up oh okay it's because he likes those ones i see uh ducco news yeah what's your news i'm interested oh okay my bad i'm warping ducco what is your news zeeb said that's what i'm talking about what's your news zeeb said that's what i'm talking about zeeb said that's what i'm talking about soon soon soon yeah yeah yeah zeeb is soon that is zeeb is soon that is zeeb is soon that is i'm gonna sound like a larp i've only i'm gonna sound like a larp i've only i'm gonna sound like a larp i've only listened to like half of zeeb i'm gonna listened to like half of zeeb i'm gonna listened to like half of zeeb i'm gonna go and i'm sorry go and i'm sorry go and i'm sorry you mean tug of war you mean tug of war you mean tug of war sorry i don't know why i said yeah i've sorry i don't know why i said yeah i've sorry i don't know why i said yeah i've only listened to like half a target only listened to like half a target explorer i need to go listen to the whole thing i was listening to it one night and then i got really tired and went to sleep and then i forgot to finish it but i will go listen to it either tonight or tomorrow uh duck out um do you want us to listen to the snippets right now or do you want us to just put them in the episode what do you wish which one do you want us to do now okay everyone going over to mtta gaming should we read uh actually hold on no we don't know we taco come oh wait no we're all saying okay i just i can get okay i can give you i can give you talking terms hold on wait what is this in the episode what is going on yeah he wants it in the episode okay how long are they i probably i don't know hopefully not long um wait no wait speak all right uh it really uh leave and come back you should be able to talk there we go there we go what's up duck uh share my screen i can't share my screen oh great okay hold on hold on robin share your screen i don't you can't do that i'm a liar hold on hold on um where's the screen sharing thingy with jake uh somewhere hold on hold on hold on um oh found it all right uh leave and join back all right now you should be able to okay we've uh let's push snippets you gotta pick one uh all right which one do we want guys the second one the second bottom second one bottom one that one okay francois funk yes yeah over gas over gassy chad yes yes okay if you say so that's a little quiet i don't think you want it up okay i have a feeling it's gonna be really loud okay okay good it's all i'm playing what do you mean why is this good it's sounding good oh why is this good i could play some gassy chai but it's really it's really loud go ahead yeah let's let's hear some gassy chud oh my god this is already album of the year oh it's the only sound of it better than mine It sounds like a dumb April Fool's song That's good Uh, Ducko, while you're here Um, I remember like a year and a half back You asked me to make a track for Zeeb Uh, do you still want me to do that? I have an idea for it We need more tracks for Zeeb Oh, okay, I've got two, I can do that for you I hope you heard the lyrics for Gassy Chud Because they're very creative I'm Ducko, I have a question I'm listening Is it just the same two words over and over? No Okay I don't think Okay, you might need a censor Or something if I do say it I'm just sharing Do you have the gorilla sound effect? Yeah The gorilla sound effect was Don't worry about it What are the lyrics? Um I thought Girl, she a minor Okay Awesome Alright, okay We're still recording, buddy Okay, that's why I didn't censor it That's Why is that the lyrics? It's okay, I'm also a minor Oh, yeah, I, I, yeah, yeah Alright, well, well, Zeeb soon DJ Giraffe Blast officially confirmed to be on the album Um Yeah Thank you very much, Ducko, for coming in To share those tracks Um, can't wait to see you next time Can't wait for the album to drop soon It's on the way Um, thank you very much Uh, okay Uh, do the wordle I'm gonna go to bed I have to work at 8 in the morning tomorrow Alright, goodnight, babe Or I guess, I guess Today I have to work at 8 in the morning today Alright, goodnight Do the wordle Goodnight I'll do the wordle Jesus Christ Alright Anyways Relse Uh, Relse's review here Before we head off to bed Um He said In response to the question My favorite member Rem Good Being good with the community And giving amazing advice Thank you Bad Going off topic at times Not always a bad thing Just needed something to critique you on Uh Yeah, I agree I, I definitely think Sometimes I go off topic a little bit too much But it's fun Um Uh, BCA Good Having a sense of humor And not being a crybaby Bad Always being on Roblox at the start Or the whole episode It's What do you mean a whole episode? I've never been on Roblox the entire episode That's actually just a lie You're actually just lying to me I'm, I'm, I'm only on it during the break room And it's because it's, it's funny Actually, it's not because it's funny Because I, I like, I like playing Roblox games while I talk But I never once have I ever been on the episode Been on Roblox The entire episode That is a fib and you know it You dirty fibber Yeah, oh Okay But yeah Uh, Super Mega Man 10 Good Getting super good at interacting with the community recently Slash getting better at Fortnite Bad Not enough LARPing LARP boy LARPing LARP more Yeah, you have to LARP Did you guys see that Donald Trump was like LARPing a ton of anime? He LARPed Persona Yeah Yeah, he was LARPing Persona Then like he did like this anime edit That like totally one of his interns made or something And it's like him as like Yugi and like Jojo And like Just a ton of stuff It was really weird God This is Yeah God, this country sucks Um, thanks for listening to today's episode Thank you everyone It's almost, it's almost 20 minutes 21 Today's 20 Oh, you're right So yeah Uh, I've been BCI I've been Super Mega Man 10 And I'm RemTGM And thank you all for listening to another episode of Memes Throughout Ages We'll see you all later Goodbye Goodbye Goodbye 21 What's 9 plus 10? 21 It's bully, bully, bully, bully, bully, bully, bully, bully, bully, bully, bully, bully Alright, 21 Wish me luck Good luck 9 plus 10 21 © transcript Emily Beynon

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. The "21" meme originated on Vine in 2013, where a brother and brother argue about math, with the younger brother incorrectly stating that 9 plus 10 equals 21, leading to a humorous and viral reaction.
  2. The meme gained massive traction through remixes, reposts, and social media, eventually evolving into a cultural phenomenon with online communities, parody edits, and even a real-world "Judgment Day" event in 2019 when fans celebrated September 10th as a symbolic day.
  3. The meme’s influence persists today, with people using it as a sound effect in videos, sparking online debates, and being referenced in internet culture, including in games like Rocket League and meme edits involving characters like Donkey Kong and Shinji from Evangelion.

Summary:

The podcast explores the origin and evolution of the "21" internet meme, which began on Vine in 2013 with a video where a young boy incorrectly states that 9 plus 10 equals 21, prompting a humorous reaction from his brother. The clip quickly spread across platforms through remixes, parodies, and social media shares, becoming a widely recognized internet phenomenon. The meme gained significant traction as fans created content like YouTube edits, TikTok compilations, and even a viral "Judgment Day" event on September 10, 2019, where users celebrated the date as a symbolic coming-of-age moment.

The meme's longevity is evident in its continued use in gaming communities, meme culture, and as a sound effect in videos, such as those in Rocket League. Despite Vine’s closure, the meme endured through fan-made content and digital sharing. A notable moment in the podcast’s discussion involves a hoax about the "21 kid" being missing, which later became a topic of internet curiosity.

The podcast also highlights how the meme has influenced online discourse, including references to real-world events and internet culture, such as the use of the phrase in video game content and social media commentary. Over time, the meme has transitioned from a simple joke into a shared cultural touchstone, demonstrating how internet humor evolves and remains relevant across generations.

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The meme originated from a 2013 Vine video where a brother asks a young boy what 9 plus 10 is, and the boy incorrectly replies '21.' The humor lies in the boy's mistaken arithmetic, which became a viral internet phenomenon.

The meme spread quickly through social media platforms like Vine, YouTube, and later TikTok, where users created remixes, parodies, and edits. Its simplicity and absurdity made it easily shareable and relatable across generations.

The child in the original Vine video is anonymous and unverified, often referred to as the '21 kid.' There has been speculation and misinformation, including a hoax claiming the child went missing, but no evidence confirms this.

The meme evolved into a cultural phenomenon with numerous remixes, social media trends, and viral edits. In 2019, a countdown to '9, 10, 21' gained traction, leading to widespread celebrations and memes on platforms like Twitter and Instagram.

Yes, platforms like YouTube and Vine played key roles. Users such as wavy websurf documented the hoax and spread the meme, while remixes by creators like swiftstar352 and others helped keep it alive on social media.

It remains a cultural touchstone due to its simplicity, humor, and nostalgic value. It’s frequently used as a sound effect in online videos, especially in gaming or meme communities.

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