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Memes Throughout the ages episode 289: I Am An Architect

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Memes Throughout the ages episode 289: I Am An Architect

The meme "I am a freaking architect" gained viral traction after being featured in a scene from the 2026 movie *The Backrooms*, a film based on an internet-famous image of an abandoned furniture store. In the scene, a character shouts about selling furniture, which became a humorous parody when paired with poorly constructed Minecraft builds on TikTok and Instagram. The Backrooms concept is rooted in a memory-based, infinite space that misremembers reality, creating surreal and often terrifying environments. The film's eerie atmosphere, built on the idea of an unknown, ever-expanding dimension, resonates more with viewers than traditional monster threats. While the movie is praised for its atmosphere and set design, some critics find its pacing slow and its narrative underdeveloped. The meme’s success underscores a broader cultural trend of using absurdity and digital creativity to comment on real-world anxieties. The discussion also touches on deeper themes like memory, reality, and digital identity, framing the Backrooms as a "digital circus" of glitched logic and surrealism. The group expresses both appreciation for the film’s originality and dissatisfaction with its lack of action, ultimately celebrating the meme’s humor and cultural impact.

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Hello. My name is Ram TGM and I BC and I'm Super Mega Man 10 and welcome to memes throughout the ages. Staying character guys please. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I got that one. I'm out of school now. Yeah. Yeah. He's not about Jesus. Sorry. BCA is not in school. Yes. Well, I'm going back next year. Yeah. I'm on the top of me. You didn't make it. It's a stone shape. Morty. Anyway, so we've all seen backgrounds now. Yes. How do you guys like to? I'm trying to. I'm going to be honest. I thought it was good. I like that. I think it was. I think personal. I would have I feel like I would have liked if they went more into the back rooms. I feel like they kind of just stayed a little bit into much of like the same places. Yeah. If that makes any sense. Yeah. Cause they go bet they they do go to different places at points in the movie, but for the most part, it's relatively in like the same area. It would have been really funny if they just built like four rooms of the back rooms and just kept on using those forms. It would have been funny. I will say though, they did a really good job with making it feel like it went on forever. There wasn't a point where I was like, yeah, this is a movie set. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Especially in the part where Mary is like in a street in the movie. That was that was the whole walls and stuff. That was CGI. They actually did it outside and they're like floating lights above them. And it was like a dark time, but they made it look like it was nighttime nighttime. They made it look like it was nighttime and just CGI the walls and they used the those were those were large doors and they made it look like it was like out of place like front of the house. I've said there was no Kanye PNG but it's not don't really really you putting it into the chat. What are you looking for one to copy and then paste? No, I was. Yeah. I was going to say I can sit around. Have you been watched the auger video? No. Soon actually. I'm not warped. Okay, auger warps being a yay fan. I don't want to. Does he actually? Yes and no. Like he he pretends he's all high in mighty and like the best yay fan. But then he gets like he thinks like almost every project. He like he feel he just he like he hates for no reason. It's yeah. Yeah. It's dropping his album. I need a new one. Anyway. Anyway. I need to help. Oh, I thought you said he made a new one. Not anyway. Oh, if you guys can already tell me. What does our meme for today? Our meme for today is I am a freaking architect. Yeah. Yeah. Did you expect this pregnant? Oh, yeah. I'm going to add on in my craft mod. Can I put I'm going to put um palm needs arm pits in the cover? I don't think you should do that. But like okay theoretically what's wrong with doing that? Um like it's weird. Yeah. Well. No way. I might. All right. So the the meme we have today is I am a f-ing architect. Now this meme is from the recently released movie The Backrooms which is a movie based on the series by Kane Parsons. Did I I said that right? Right. Yeah. Also known as Kane pixels. I believe that's his name. Yeah. Cause is internet. Um, which is inspired by the original image of the the back rooms which is posted on fortune. I love it. Hacker known as fortune. Um, but yeah. The empty furniture store. Yeah. Yes. So the we'll talk about the back rooms are in a second, but this meme. I thought it wasn't an office space. I did too. Yeah. A lot of people thought that but it turns out it's a it's just a abandoned or an empty out furniture store that was I think it was like in Indianapolis or Minnesota. Interesting. I actually find the actual spot. Someone went to the actual spot. It looks like a lot different now, but they found the actual. Oh yeah. Cause it is a real image, right? Yeah. Yeah. That is a real image. It's like the up like the second. No, it's AI generation. It's like, it's like the second floor of a building. I'm going to be honest with you. I think the concept of the back of the back rooms itself is is scary. Like be it like being in I think that I think that's scary. And I was kind of talking about this with the fourth number during our time at the farm. We were kind of talking about it and like we and it would have been weird if like they went to a farm. Let me just preface that. That the idea of the back rooms existing like back like when like way back in time probably like caveman times like the back rooms would have looked extremely different if it were created during like the historic times. Cause then you would have cause since the back room is based since the back rooms is creating itself based on like memories, you would have seen like everything in that place. I would have like cave like cave walls in the back rooms. See, Megaman, the point you're bringing up, I think that answers the question I had. So I'm not like I'm not like a back rooms expert here. I really don't know like anything. By the way, if you guys couldn't already tell spoilers for the the back rooms, I don't know if that's it's been out for like four weeks. Yeah, they're just saying yeah, that's on you. But the back the the back rooms itself so that the creatures inside of it, right? Yeah, the bacteria. Yeah, no, that was the monster in the in the YouTube series. And then the things that look like the humans that still lives, still lives, yeah. Yeah, so why were they all just like so happy? Why did they all just so happen to be in the same area as the people that went in? Like were they created as soon as they went in? Like how does that work? Well, they probably must have existed before their memories of other people. Yeah, their memories of other people that have possibly could have been in there or is just taking memories from something else. Oh, okay, I see. Which is why they're in that area because they were in that area real now because something must have gone, someone must have gone in there and made or something at the memory of that thing. I just created it, but it's not as like correct because since the back rooms misremembers everything. I saw a cool Darth Vader, where his life saver was his finger. That's cool. I saw an AI photo like that too. Dude, that's so epic. I'm just joking. I made the joke because like AI, you know, messes up the like, oh, since the back rooms was created like during like this, I think it was like the 1990s or the 1970s, that's why the that's why the place looks like that specifically because it was basically off where it was open, which was in California. Oh, okay, so it was, it was, so when it was created, it was the everything was open. The room was basing off something that was in California and that's why the walls just looked like that. But there have been doors just opening around and that's why there's like so many things going into it and that's why there's just like a bunch of random out of place stuff in the back rooms. It's because these things are going into the back rooms. Okay. And then in the rooms itself are just trying to copy that. Okay, can we talk about that? Well, this is about the, we're talking about the movie. Well, the movie is the, the meme, you know? Yeah, but we're just explaining the back rooms. Yeah, Well, that's what the people want. Yes, okay. I have one more question, but I'll say that till the end. Okay. Let's see here. So the is this even like the back rooms? Is it just like one of the thousand interpretations of the back? And this scene isn't even like from the back rooms part of the movie. Yeah. It's from the the beginning part. Yeah, it's the beginning part before they find it. So I am- The original back rooms, it's just like it's an infinite place where there's nobody. I honestly, I think this scary already, you know, I think that's scarier than they're being monsters. Yeah, because it's like, it's like the idea of like, oh, what if there is something, you know, you don't know. Yeah. Okay, like, like, like, have you ever like lost a spider in your room and then you're freaked out not knowing where this spider is? Yeah, you're like, where is he? Yeah, but it turns out there what there is no spider in the spider that's all on your mind. Yeah, that's deep. Yeah, I know. So I thought, I am, I'm an architect. I'm a f-ing architect is from the scene in the back rooms movie that we have been talking about already for quite a bit, where the protagonist Clark, played by the actor, not even gonna try that, is yelling at his therapist, Mary, and he ends up saying, I am a f-ing architect. Oh, well, and I'll say the full thing. I am a f-ing architect. I could say it. I could just go. Go ahead, Megan. I'm just like selling crap furniture because someone will get off their f-ing and help me. Oh, no. Well, they're going, they're going, there's another episode. They're going to sell it. Oh, damn it. It's fun. It doesn't do anything at all. It's just an it's just like five girls who watch MTTR devastation. It's just a letter E next to the episode. It's fine. Oh, my god. I could censor it, but I could also not. Yeah, put that when you play his girl. Oh, my god. Yeah, I'm all right. All right. Like the thousandth time we've done that. Are you actually doing it? Yes, every time you told me to do that, I have done it. Editor, but girl is out of fact here, here, here, here. Thank you. Thanks. I'll have fun doing that later. That's what we're here. So yeah, that scene happens while Clark is talking to Mary. And because Mary is a therapist, so she's therapying, you know, like therapists do. And this scene became a meme over on TikTok. People would take the clip from the movie and they would post it sometimes just alone, but also with a like a photo of someone built something someone's built, whether it be in real life or a game like Minecraft. And it'll it'll look sometimes bad on purpose. Sometimes it looks good, but like the joke is it's supposed to look bad in the clip is I am a f-ing architect because the joke is like, you know, it's bad. It reminds me of disaster designs, my passion. That sounds so familiar. What is it's just the image of the star, the like the poorly drawn star, like the golden star, it says, graphic design is my passion at the middle of it. The words of like going off the star. It sounds familiar. Let me find early quick. Cool, I've got to, I've got to clip. Oh wait, no, no, I think that's a different. That's the, that's the, that's the you you did at star. That's this one. You did it. This one, the one where it's the blue sky and there's just a PNG of a frog. Oh. Yeah. I was thinking of the this one. You did it star. You did a K. We did it. Yeah, you're good at it. This one. This is the head of this. Let's see. Oh, I've seen this one. I still do not know how to draw a sign. Oh, you do like one point at the top, then one point at the thing, and then one point at the point. I know, I just really suck it in. I can't do it. Yeah. It should be simple to draw, but I've always had issues with it. I can't do the ones that teachers would do on like your tests and stuff and get her not going around. And like elementary school where they do it really quick. Yeah, like the star, David. I think about the, yeah, yeah, that one. I can do that, but like when it comes to like doing like an actual star, I can sort of do it, but it's going to look a bit funky. Yeah, I suck at it. Yeah, like the star of David. Anyway, uh, that's just two, uh, two different triangle, two triangles going, okay, we're talking about. I'll play the scene right here. Make sure the sensor is. I will. I am a. I'm just selling furniture because someone won't get off the back fuck out of me. Rem me better if you see only plays girl. That's the only one I've got. Great. It's going in, but like the fifth time. You do mute me, but I go, what the fuck? And then I, and I cut it off, you know, it's funny. You know, I boy, what the fuck? Hashtag fairs hashtag. Oh my god, Valentine. You are like, you're something else, man. During that during the start of junior year, someone I became friends with, it was like across the classroom T-pose and going, what the boy? Why? Oh, cause it was funny. Was it, it was ironic, right? It wasn't. Yeah. Okay, good, good, good, good. But he was going like, boy, what the dang can do? Like, really funny. Oh, fairs. I love you, Levi. Please marry me. Thank you, Levi. All right. Thank you, Levi. Before we get on to the origin, the question that I had, we're just going to do this here. What, why did the pirate, the pirate one feel getting hit with the rock? Why? Oh, because, well, at the end of the movie, when they're doing like the autopsy of the pirate thing, you can see he has bones and a brain and everything. So it was more developed than all the other ones. Oh, okay, that makes sense. It's probably because Clark actually went into the back rooms. Yeah, I saw something, or it's like Captain Clark is actually Clark. And the Clark that we see, you know, captain, captain, captain, character. No, no, this is like conspiracy theory. I thought he was, here's what I was thinking for some reason. I like misremembered seeing some like, and some like scene on TikTok, where Clark gets hit over the head by like, like, like, another version of himself. Yeah, but like, I thought I just thought I, like, remembered seeing that. So when I left the movie theater, I was thinking back to it. I was like, why did, why did the, why, like, why, like, like, Clark was acting a little bit too differently. And now, like, he, like, he was acting a bit odd. And then the other thing, like, the, the pirate was able to feel things. I was like, oh, wait a minute. We missed an end credit scene. Because we didn't stay until the very, very end. I was like, oh, my god, we missed an end credit scene. No, I just can't really make things out. You know, people, people think that that Captain Clark was a more developed still life or whatever monster because Clark actually spent so long in the back rooms. That, that makes sense. And also, like, the, the back rooms, because it remembers things, but some things are remembers more than others. Yeah. So like, maybe that one, he was just remembering the ending of the movie, where Mary becomes a still life. That was she. Well, she didn't become one when you talking. Yeah, she did. No, she didn't. And they just like, they probably just like killed her or just like kept her locked up. No, she didn't become a still life. It's not how that works. What are you talking about? Because remember how in the end, dude, there's a jump cut. You don't know what to, what a cut is. They probably just killed her. She's not, she didn't get turned into a still life. That's not how that works. I bet that's not how it was ever explained in the movie. Why would that have happened? Are you googling this? Why would they do that is my question. Like, It wasn't because it's not possible, it's not how that works. Yes, by the end of the background movie that the dimension has created a form created one. That's not her What do you mean? Yeah, you got proven wrong Okay, my biggest issue with this movie is that Zoolog wasn't in it. Oh, yes I feel like this movie could have benefited from Zoolog, you know, maybe ganglot. Did you know ganglot? This is completely off topic. Is black only? Well, that's not the point. I was gonna make gang only has it a total of eight lines in the last act Oh, it's because Zoolog hates black people. I get it. I'm sorry. Not Zoolog. No, they're probably wrong Sorry, I get them confused or two similar gooseworks Actually gooseworks is infinitely better than a busy pop. What am I saying? Yeah, her I don't like being that, but one of those better than the other. Her self-insert being jacks isn't really a good look though. Yeah, that's not a good look at all Anyway, what You see What did you just say? Oh, Jacks. Oh my God. Oh, you guys and I hate blacks But um, yeah, no, I like tolerated jacks. I thought he was kind of cool, but no, he's just like actually a horribly written character I did too see for the longest time in the beginning. I really liked him because I thought he was just like a normal dude Okay, I hate to be like guy, but Jacks is a female No, he isn't Okay, so so okay, we're gonna we're gonna do this real quick Jacks according to what's her name this works is trans. They did a horrid job I don't saying it in the last act. They like a kind they like did it in a way that's like, oh, yeah Okay, I could see that if someone told me that but like without being told on Twitter or Through TikTok. Yeah, let me go log on to Twitter and then jacks is trans like you the fact that Jacks is trans like I don't care. It's a Whoops. Oh my god. There's the sixth one. Yeah, wait, where are we counting? Yes, I'm gonna put the sound effects in for the other ones when you said to put them in there. So yeah, it's a virtual rabbit. I don't care Jacks never known that if you didn't just tell me that jacks is a virtual rabbit. Oh My god Remember right. I know Guys, if you don't know where we're referencing by the by the patreon listen to the mtta break room But I can't believe Ganga had eight lines. That's really funny. It is. Yeah. Why didn't they make Zubel the trans one? Why would Zubel be the trans one? because like Zubel's whole thing was that like all her pieces didn't fit or whatever, so I feel like that would have made more sense than making Jacks the person that said that would have made for a horrible person. Yeah, I thought they just like made jacks a fanboy Cuz they made just because how funny vulgar character is in made dress that's so lay epic so epic cool He's like Jackson's a horrible person. He's a horrible person. Why would you want that character to represent? You're like your community and you you're kind of shooting yourself in the fun with that one Anyway, who cares? This is the the digital circus. Yeah, when you're right. This is back rooms. What are you like? You know if you think about the back rooms is kind of like a digital circus No If you think about it He's like, okay, I think like the exit room is more like the back rooms. Well, if you think about it Think about this another. Yeah, if you think about another's matters at all of this saying things Like yeah, and if you really think about it, I am an epic architect Kane's technically an architect. Oh my god. He is Kagers one two everyone becomes an architect. Yeah, you're right Well, isn't sure I'm you see what I said works on Twitter and tell her about this Yeah, someone told goose works. I'm sorry. Your fan base is so bad Yeah Well, I mean it's personally her fault, you know back room back. We're all writing anyway. Yeah Back rooms we haven't even done the origin, but we're talking about the back rooms here. You know See how origin All right PC. I have what I just can you tell us how this means originate where it came from jazz, you know, yeah so on June 5th Wow on June 5th 2026 Tik Toker your ape posted a edit using a scene from the back rooms and which Clark yells to his therapist and how frustrated He is selling furniture as an architect and then the scene and the scene deals. I am a freaking architect I'm just selling crap furniture cuz someone will get off their fat freaking butt and help me And the edit is set to Minecraft music and begins with the Minecraft achievement overlay on June 10th Tik Toker A a Ron CK57 Posted a meme further associating the scene with Minecraft in which the scene plays in the corner while basic Minecraft builds are displayed on screen Garden over 20. Oh my god 168,000 views in six days You know what else I'm using reviews my video. I'll watch my video. Yeah, I have fourth finger description. Oh Okay, cool. Yeah But yeah, it's minecraft minecraft joke architect building minecraft. I am I am a I am a I am a freaking master builder. It's like Emma I am this like Emmett like multi tool pencil. Oh my god. Wait a hole in hole in hole in one Maybe we're thinking of the same one. Is it the one where you take the hat off and it's the yes, the pen. Oh my god I have that one too. Yeah, I have the I don't know. I said multi tools are wrong. It's wrong Kid walks in my classroom today and what my name is Thomas O tool and I have like I looked up and I smiled Do you know do you have a cousin by the name of sneaker? I should have asked What is it gonna say that I wanted to get um and I meant mini figure when I was a kid after the movie But they were the sold out of the mini like the blind bags at Barnes and Noble so I had to get that one instead I bet you can find one now. Why couldn't you just get a Lego set? I don't think they had any what I mean the Lego movie was huge back then, you know, I that was like right when the movie came out too We did get Lego set me in BCA used to get Lego sets all the time one of the ones I got was It was like the flying contraption. He made do you remember that the Emmett? Yeah, there's that is really cool Anyway back rooms Yeah, it's that's the entire origin the joke was someone posted on minecraft club because architect building minecraft story mode I almost actually I saw my craft story mode at Game stop should about it. I did not I did not buy it. How much was it was that the issue? I think like I think like 10 bucks I should have bought it is Aren't you like unable to play it anymore? Because you have to download the game after even if you have the disk yeah Yeah, I think you're you have to get like a certain version unless you already had it downloaded You'll have to get like a certain version I think That thing I didn't buy that then because I wouldn't be a little play. I got garden warfare for three dollars And I can't play because I need to buy Which I'm not really he still can't play garden warfare Yeah I need to play garden warfare. It's been a minute anyway. Yeah, don't do it on Xbox. You need to buy I play on PC. Don't worry Super mega-man 10. Can you tell us how this meme spread? Bradley the I am an architect memes spread over the following days prior and merely on tick-tock and Instagram Reels For example on June 11th, 2026 tick-tocker the tix 24 post-it-ace 10x wait a second. Let me see The tix. Oh, 1000 really for the t-decks The tix 24 post-it-ace white shows setting a series of memes to the audio the edit That edits Clark as a Minecraft character in front of bad builds gaining over 269,000 views in five days The day that day in Instagram user cloth Pull the show Posted a version of the meme that places the scene in the corner of a bad build that gained over $44,900 likes in five days. On June 13th, 26th, Tik Toker, Traveler, Old, Posted a version of the meme showing a very simple Minecraft build, garnering over 555,000 views in 3 days. On June 15th, Instagram user Maleky the Great posted a version of the meme that gained over 47,800 likes in a day, and that's it. Well, well, it's really, I like it. I agree. I like this one. Yes, I really do enjoy this meme. I actually made my own, I made my own. Oh, right. I was about to bring that up. Like a man posted a "I have an architect" meme to the Tik Toker. You did? I saw that one. Yeah, it was with his desk. I think we should make that as the thumbnail for this. No, no, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. We should make it, well, it's my episode. This is the meme that I chose. We should make it. We should make it. You know, we've been talking a lot about the amazing digital circus. I think we should put Palmini's armpits. Let's just put Palmini in it and not her armpits. What is wrong with you? Well, what's the fun in that, huh? I should do what we should have. What's your name? Jesus Christ. Gooseworks profile picture. And then a red arrow. And then the red circle is Palmini's armpits. No, what are you not doing? Because Gooseworks made Palmini. So therefore, Gooseworks made Palmini's armpits. If you're even going to make a thumbnail, I feel like you've done so many custom. Just take a picture of my TikTok. I am going, I'm just joking. I'm going to put the original image. We've made like a million custom nails this season. No, he's going to make another custom when I have the only change the Palmini's armpits. I'm just going to make it straight up Palmini's armpits. They're going to name the episode Palmini's armpits. Then rename the podcast to Palmini's armpits. We know you have a patch. It's so white. Okay. Who is we? We? There is no. It's just me. Sorry, my notes are like stuffy. I'm not even. My throat is feeling really weird. What's going on? I don't know. Hey, Brent, that reminds me. I don't know why every time we mention sickness, I think about this. We still need to train my Pokemon. Oh, yeah. Anyways, I think it's pretty funny. I like it. Yeah. Thoughts. What would it be? I know we already talked about like what we thought, but like on a deeper level. What did we? What did we like about the movie? What did we not like? I liked the sets. The sets were cool. I liked most. I like. I think the story was pretty good because I honestly didn't know what they were going to do for a background story. So I think they did it pretty well. I did not like how long the intro was, to be honest. Like I wasn't unbearable. I just I think I dragged on a little long. Yeah. Like only for the payoff to be like I just like runs into captain clerks like arm or something. That was like whatever. That's really the only thing I like that much. I really did like how the story went and I really did enjoy like how they used the music within like the back rooms. Like that was a really good way to kind of give that yeary feeling. Something I didn't really like about the movie was that they I feel I felt like there could have been more that could have been in this movie. You mean like more levels? Yeah, the at that or just a little bit more to like the story. Guys, they went to the pilgrims. You can stop complaining, but they went to one other area. I think they shouldn't add a little bit more something to the story itself. Well, that's not really the back rooms that is just like random. They didn't go to level wrong. Dude, there's no yay. But I like I like that they showed the poor rooms. I guess. Well, they're actually be a sequel or you just say there's definitely going to be. Yeah. It makes sense that isn't me more rooms, but I like that the first one just focused on the back. Okay, that's what they're doing one. Yeah, well, they basically set it up to us. Well, I don't know. I thought it was just going to be like a like an in between thing for like the show. So like there's like there's just like made for the show. Yeah, the series that it's based off of. Oh, sorry. Oh, so no, no, no, no. Yeah, I thought the movie was good. I think there are parts that felt like to me, I like those parts, but I feel like to some people this movie could be very boring. Yeah, a lot of people are saying that the movie was boring and then like a. All that tells me is you don't have an attention span. You can't just pay attention for like five minutes. Yeah, basically the whole point of the back rooms is nothing happens. Yeah, I mean, like there's nothing ever happened that do happen within the series, but like the whole point of the back rooms, it's like it's just people walking around and endless hallway. That's why that's why people made it like monster slop and just started adding like a million levels with this entity existing. It will kill you if it's easier to better not let it see. Well, so it's going to murder you. And you'll never be seen again is because people are stupid and dumb and they can't understand the back rooms. Well, it's supposed to be like an entity filled cluster effort. I kind of wish that there was more mystery to the back rooms. Like I didn't, I just would have preferred if it was less of just like a like a man-made creation. And isn't that my own thing, right? I thought they made it, they like opened a pocket dimension and made it specifically to like create, to like be a landfill basically. No, no, they made it. Well, no one made it. They don't know why it's okay. Yeah, they just somehow opened a door. Yeah, they found it. And somehow this room is starting to begin to the real world and kind of trying to copy that. But it has, but it's not doing it properly. And it's just mismemorizing everything. That's why the still lives look so off is because it's mismemoring all of all this stuff. I saw a sonic one, but they only gave him like a ton of eyes. Why they give him like a ton of legs. So what? I saw like a, there was like a sonic comic. Oh, yeah, I actually just saw that of back rooms. There's a sonic the comic. Oh, lightweight. That's the, that's the Sonicy AC guy. But someone made like a, the comic was good. It was like a short comic, but it like they gave him just a ton of eyes for some reason instead of like a ton of legs. So I feel like the back rooms would give Sonic a ton of legs because it can't understand that his legs are like blurring together when he runs. So it would just like give him a ton of legs, but I don't know, it was still cool. The interesting part is that when the back rooms was like created, it didn't really understand how to make. But as the series went on, it started to advance. It starts to create a whole bunch of things and then it started creating people. So you can see how originally the back rooms was just like just a bunch of endless halls. But now it's just becoming this place where it's trying to recreate the real world and also people itself. Sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to cut you off. No, you can go. Okay, so in a way, it's basically its own like living thing. It's basically like it's it, it's its own ecosystem. Yeah, but the back rooms isn't really like a living place. It's just it's just a thing. Yeah, it's just it's just a weird alternate dimension. That's just something an alternate dimension is just there. That's like that's that's what's supposed to be scary about is that it's just there and no one knows why it's there. I think that's cool. Yeah, it's just keeps expanding and just the back rooms were just gone. Yeah, it's just expanding and trying to recreate more things and the scariest part is that. if it was like actually created like during like caveman times, the whole entire back rooms would have just been an endless memory. It would have, like the back rooms itself would just would have been an endless memory. I thought that's what it is. Why would it, why would it be a memory if it was a caveman thing? What are you talking? Because it would have had like everything throughout history, like the caveman. But doesn't it already have everything throughout history? Medieval, I don't know man, but wouldn't it already have that? No, it opened up during like the 1990s or the 1970s, so it only was only trying to copy what was there when the door opened. I don't know if the door would have opened if the door opened. It copied the first thing it saw. Yeah, which was which was a financial struggle. Oh, okay. Word opened during my historic times. There would have been a whole lot of history within the back rooms. And that would have made it like even larger than what we know now. Dinosaur Train. Yeah, maybe Dinosaur Train is in the back rooms. Oh my god you're right. I knew there was something fishy about tiny shiny and don't freakin' still alive. Anyway, yeah, movie was good. I like the meme. It's funny. I agree. I think the meme's funny. I think the movie was good. I liked it. Yeah, I think it's a good meme. It's very funny and yeah. Yeah, see you guys in the meme games. Goodbye. Hello and welcome to the meme game game game game. Hello everyone and welcome to the meme games. The part of the show, wherever you play games based on this episode and episodes before, REM TGM would slightly go on a further game. All right, so we have a picker wheel that we call the meme wheel with a bunch of games that come with it. REM take your time. So we have a picker wheel that we call the meme wheel with a bunch different games that can play on it. Whoever has the most points by the end of the season, which is the next episode from these games wins the meme games. You've been to find out the score room. Yeah, REM, don't forget that. I'll get it next episode. Don't worry. All right, spin that wheel. Spin that wheel. Spin that wheel. Spin that wheel. Spin that wheel. We play this one. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Memes Throughout the Ancient. How do we play this one? REM TGM. Um, well, I remember you had like, you said something one time about how to play this one. Did I? Yeah, I actually, I haven't written down here word for word. We pull a meme that's run its course, but it's still funny. BCA, the MTTA break room number two. Oh, you even like notice what it was. Yeah, um, we pull a meme that's run its course, but oh, I get it. We have to think of a meme that, um, isn't already died already, but it's still kind of funny. Yeah, we have to have a meme that we have to pick a meme that's died, but is still funny and argue why it's still funny. Oh, okay. Look, guys, look, this is the ninja latte per thing. Incredible, incredible meme. Uh-uh. That's an issue. I don't know since it's not, but you know, it is. Well, meeting the 200,000 people on TikTok said it was you see that like, we'll talk about that while after you get the, the name wheel. That's right, because we have a picker wheel that we call the name wheel has all of our names on it. We're gonna see this first second half of today's meme games. Let's use going first. I'll be going first in today's meme games. Let's spin again to see use going second and third. I bought borderlands the pre-sagole from my Xbox. But not borderlands for. Listen, I will buy it. Nobody. Hey, so I'm going to kill you a real life. Like, kill you in real life. Mega Man, you're going second and the rems, the rems is going last and unfortunately. Mega Man, I never kill you. I'm going to laser you. I'm going to shut up because I'm going to laser you with my laser vision. But yeah, rems zone lasts unfortunately. You guys ready? Yes. Yeah. All right, three, two, one. Let's do some archeology. I just don't even remember what I was going to say. It doesn't matter. Nothing really matters. You know, speaking of like people who like make music, I don't get people who just like like start making like jokes about like, okay, Captain Kirk was really, it was the jokes about him were really funny. But like, when is people like all of her tree who die, I don't get people to start making jokes about it because he was just like some dude. Yeah. He was just like a music artist and people are like, he's with tongue out. Like guys, come on. Look at even a bad guy. He's like full thing to say. Yeah. He's with. I saw, I was like, this Instagram account was kind of corny. God, what am I saying? I just called a grieving, grieving mother corny. But the thing is she's like actually like dragging it. Like she's been dragging her son's death for like three years now. It's all, okay. Okay. B.C. I want you to imagine this. Your kid dies, right? No, okay, but every say one of the, you don't understand what I saw. I saw like, but she was like, she made a post. It was like, um, like it was so like insensitive. But it's not, it's not like insensitive to anyone because she was the one affected. But like, it's just such a weird thing to post. It was just like, it was like, oh, how, how are you so thin? And uh, it was like, I was like, I work out in, I grieve about my son's death a lot. It was like something like that. But anyway, um, people, people in the comments of her video were saying, don't worry, he's with tongue now and posting tongue like this, this kid was murdered. Oh my god. Like he was like stabbed on his front floor, and he learned putting keys with tongue now in the comment section of the grieving mother. Also, it was crazy. You brought up music. Please remind me to show you too the song I made for Zeeb after, yeah, after this because it is, it's fire. I'll say her to you. I also got to see me make it some masterpiece. Um, let me let me think about it. I can't say the low taper fade. Can we all be like, make an unspoken rule that no low taper fade? Yeah. I just like act. We're just too good. Low taper fade. That's a, that's a niche reference to the case of the stolen meme. ECD knows what I'm talking about. Yes, I don't like that. Low taper. It's been a while before I watched it, so I can't really remember. Low taper fade. It looks crazy. I still have the thought of something. Wixwebin better not die in the third one, or I'm going to kill you ECD. Rob start thinking. I'm trying to think. We are the soldiers of the EID. Yes. Oh, I know. I got mine. Okay. Um, Megaman, do you have ears? Yes. Oh, enough. Enough fares kind of means like it's wraps, you know. It's essentially a crash show almost kind of, kind of almost like a, like, oh, no, that is only Valentine. Sorry, you hear it. Megaman would just said. No, what do you say? You can go bad for a band. Megaman. Yeah. I was, how did you, how, why, how did you say that? I was going to pick that. Oh, no, he didn't take it. I know, but I was going to, but not like, I got one. I got one. It's over. It's wraps. Kind of like, it's, like, like, fares. It's fares. Kind of means like it's wraps. But it's essentially a crash show. Oh, yeah. Just like it, just like a T.S. - People are still using T.S. from this kind of annoying. - T.S. actually means a crash outfair. - Oh yeah, 808 essentially means fares crash out goofy. - Anyway, we're not speaking like, actually like ancient Egyptian fiction like, talk about what we're doing. Who's first? - You. - Me, yes. All right, so mine that's still funny is, is dabbing. - You think about it, think about it. Rem, what would you do with someone dabbed right in front of you? - I'd probably start laughing very hard. - See, it's still funny. - I, like, because ironically it would still be, like, when's the last time you've seen someone dabbed? - Not too long ago actually, maybe a month or two. - I, wow. Like, if I saw someone do like a slow dab and then like, like hit like hit a clean dab, like. - Yeah. - And it's just somebody's hitting the gentleman's dab. - Yeah, you mean a bow, I don't know why it's important. I call it that, they call it the gentleman's dab. - No, like they weren't dabbing. - It's just kind of hard to. - What? - Yeah. - Anyway, but um. - I'd laugh very hard. - I would argue that dabbing is still very funny because it's, it was funny when it was a thing because dabbing was funny back then, but like, it's just, it's just like ironic now. If someone was on ironically dabbing, I think he would still laugh because it's like, why is this person dabbing in there? - Yeah, look at this losing. - Yeah. - For the door. - Yeah, and then then he had him with their car. - How driving in my car right after? - Yeah. - You see that? - Hey, chapter five came out. It's a 12-year-old gig. - Yeah, I was playing it last night and I'm gonna play it tonight. - Is it good? - Yeah. Delta Roon is good. You're just like a, you're just like a, - No, I'm not saying it's not good, I'm just, I don't wanna play it. - Okay, you're a silly country girl. - You don't make any of it. But anyway, dabbing is still funny because whether it be ironic or on ironic, it is a funny thing to see because it was funny when it was a thing and it's still funny when it isn't a thing because it's absurd for anybody to still be doing. - That's, yeah. - Right, that's my argument. What do you guys think? - I, what do you agree with? - Are you a guy? Why are you like, what are you watching? Is this the good guy who wins dab? - Why? - He was googling the gentleman. Do you hear that word I said? - Yes. - I'm googling Palm Nee's armpits right now. - No, no, I don't hear that. - I think. - My culture is not your costume. - Whoa, okay, hey, first of all, it's my culture. You're the one larping. - What about me gonna, I need to not do this right now. - Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Look at me go to armpits, all right, we're, - We're the same, me, Hyman. All right, that's a Hyman from Megaman. - I'm, I'm gonna agree with that. I think that's a solid rating, Hyman. - Hyman Hyman, for me. You're up next, yes. - All right, Megaman, what's yours? - For my meme, I chose, oh no, our table, it's broken. - Affairs. - Well, I think of something broken. Some of us that own our table is broken. I think I would like, smirk and exhale. - Yeah, it's like, it's like, what are you doing? - I mean, it's a meme that I think almost everyone has seen and has quoted a lot. But it is always funny to hear it sometimes, especially like in those moments where like, somebody might break something, like it's like a small little thing, and as a joke, they say it. - Yeah, I think I would, I think I would, - It still gives people a good half. Sometimes, depending on like the context of. - Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. - I, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, what are you doing? (laughing) - Yeah, one percent of IDK stole his pen. I think, I think I do exactly what PCA would just said he'd do. Like a little exhale through the nose and like, maybe a, maybe at most a little chuckle. - Yeah, I'd say mid-mid-mid. - I'm gonna go mid-mid-mid too. - All right, so mid-mid-mid-mid for Mega Man, where I'm TGM, what does your mean? - My mean. - It's fairs. - Johnny Walker, I'm sorry, Jesus. I got it wrong. I can't even remember what it was. Sippin' Johnny Walker in the War Room by myself with him. - Why, I got that study, bro. - I think, I think it's still funny. I don't think it got any less funny. It's Sippin' Johnny Walker in the War Room. That's what it was called. I don't think it's gotten any less funny. I think it was just forgotten. - Yeah, I think you're right. - Because a lot of cookies, like the jokes cookies, cookie makes, it just kind of like moves on. It doesn't get like less funny. It just kind of like goes on to something else. So like, if I saw one of those clips again, I think it would still be funny. And like, let's see if I can still do it. No, I can't. I can't remember what it was. - What, are you trying to quote the Johnny Walker? - Yeah. - You used to be able to do it so good. - I used to, hold on. I used to use Sippin' Johnny Walker in the War Room by myself with him. Hold on. Hold on, I need to hear this one more time. Hold on. 10-hour version, yes. All right, ads. - 10-hour version. - I think it's still very funny. I think it, like I think if you were to see the clip again, I think it would be just as funny as it was back then. It's very, oh yeah, for example. Oh yeah, for example, just a tape, pull up a video. His hair would drink Johnny Walker. What do I do with duty free? Johnny Walker. That night Sippin' Johnny Walker in the War Room by myself with him. Why? - I studied, bro. - I knew what he liked. - I didn't get that absolutely correct, but I think it's just as funny as it was back when it started to be a meme. - Yeah, I don't really think it's gotten any less fun. It's not something I'd start going, "Oh, hold on, I feel like when I see it, but I think I'd smile." - Yeah. - I didn't really see it, so I can't really say anything on it. I feel like this is an okay example. You know that? - This is like a meme that I haven't seen since I don't. - Well, the thing is it's still funny. I think it would be in my opinion. I think it would be the perfect example because according to you, according to you, let me pull this up. We pull a meme that's Run It's Course. This meme is Run It's Course, but it's still funny. And this hasn't at all lost the value that it held. - Yeah, it's like ironically fun or anything. It's just like genuinely funny. - Yeah. - Johnny, I'm going to cut you off, are you saying? - I was saying this is something that I really think is funny 'cause I haven't really seen this meme a lot. And plus I can't really say anything on it. So, I mean, yeah, it's our opinions. I'd say low-high. It's, I think that's a good example. - Thank you. - There's probably funnier things, but like this does meet all the criteria. I guess it's unlike my thing, like dabs like me ironically funny. I think this is just still genuinely funny. - Tony plays genuinely laughing for 15 minutes. I'll come now. - Is it possible for me to not give up, like a rating 'cause I don't know what you're about. - Mega man, mega man, mega man. - You have to look at it objectively, not from like what you, I mean it is from what you think, but like, I guess yeah, it is a personal thing. - Would this be the first thing or not? Would just be, and plus if I didn't get 'em out of rating, you and BCA would still be tied. - Well, that you basically just be giving me a low, low at that point. 'Cause if you're not ready, you're basically giving it like a zero. - So, what do you mean? - Mega Man, do you hate me? - No, I mean, because you've got a low high and also BCA, if you add them up, you get a low high. - No, but that's not fair. You can't just have one rating. You would just be like giving me like, like this call. - Mega Man, in your heart right now. Right now, I, I'm gonna give you a rating. - I'll see. - Throw a rating in three seconds, one. - He said low low. - Okay, right, okay. - So, does this mean me and Robert died? - I don't think so, I think I was just sabotaged. I don't think that. - Okay, so that means I win. - Yeah. - Okay. - Well, unfortunately, Mega Man just hasn't seen the clip that much. - But I'm not gonna say it's a good thing he barely voted, but I feel like it's fair that he didn't really vote. - This is outrageous. - 'Cause he doesn't like know anything about the me, like he can't, I can't, I can't. - I don't know. on it because I haven't seen it a lot. You can't say it's funny. It's like IGN. Yeah, they do that all the time. Anyway, I went to Asim Games so I get a point. We'll see you all in criticism and Castle. Goodbye. Goodbye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Hello everybody and welcome back to criticism castle. The point in the show where we read reviews from you guys all the way down under in the review section below Remkey GM. What are reviews for today? Alright, so as always, we're going to read through reviews, one from Apple podcasts, one from Spotify, and one from the Discord server. Again, if you're not already in the Discord server, what are you doing? Let's start off as always with Apple podcasts like we usually do. Nothing. Well, yeah, let's see. Nothing else in comments. Guys, come on. We need more of you. Oh, come on. Is there actually nothing? No, there's not. Oh my god. There's actually nothing. We'll read two from Spotify. Guys, don't be a stranger. Comment, okay? Leave reviews. It's okay. We're not going to bully you. I know we've been. Yeah. It's strange. Yeah, don't be a stranger. What's up, danger? Miles Morales. That guy's really creepy, but make sure you leave some reviews. Rem has been putting me into a specific Ernie in the past, but if your name is Ernie and you're not that Ernie, it's okay. You can comment. Ernie needs to die. Rem. Rem. He doesn't use a tourist. He doesn't use his. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right. Actually, anyways, leave some new reviews. We'll read them. You basically have 100% chance of getting your review read right now. So go ahead and leave some. Let's hear our stars, five options. All right, so we've got a, b, b unfortunately, and c, a, a. All right, this first review is titled nothing because it's on Spotify and tells hello, hello. I've been listening since you uploaded the wasted sound effect meme. Uh, this podcast removed my brain tumor, and therefore, I, therefore, I reg stew shall provide you with a meme recommendation. Please, oh, please, with a cherry on top, do the meme where Homer Simpson adds a butter finger to Orlando. What? Oh, is it uphead boss one? Yeah, that one's funny. Or else I will put BCA into a bowl of stew. It's always, it's always BCA. It's always, it's always, it's always I'm racist. It's always BCA. It's a, it's always me, me, me, bully someone else for a chance. Like above the, who is this made by? This reviews by Greg still. Thank you so much, Greg still for the supposed five star review. And, uh, one of us will do that. I think if anyone were to do that one, it would be mega man. Yeah, there isn't a page on it. Oh, cool. So, yeah, thanks so much, Greg still for the supposed five star review that rhymed. All right, this next review comes from steel master. I'm sorry, I usually say that after it's my bad. Um, this review entails, we must find a way and leave behind Brian and Rod in the big 2026 to have the great meme reset my, my budas. When was this written? I'll have you to take a guess, when do you think? That's written like yesterday. Two weeks, two weeks. Oh, six days ago. Oh, my god, my god. Great meme reset. And we're like almost seven months into 2026. I feel like this one might be satire though. I feel like I feel like it is. And then they put the, the laughing crying emoji is like a reaction. This is. Oh, yeah, that's that satire. Okay, this is satire. Thank you, steel master. Thank you so much, steel master for the, for the supposed five star review. And yeah, we must find a way. And uh, I didn't want to else like, like, ever realize that like, the supposed, like, queen of the Ugandan knuckles was that one girl from dragon made who looks like a child. Not the one with, not the one with big chest, like the actual like one that looks like a child. I didn't know there was a queen. I just thought they were talking about a friend. Yeah. Anyway, yeah, uh, Discord. Thanks guys. I love Discord. I love Reddit. I love Mountain Dew. I actually really like Mountain Dew. Anyway, thank you so much, steel master for the supposed five star review. Uh, next review. Well, oh wait, no, we don't, we don't do three, right? Can we do three? I can. Yeah, we do. We do. Okay. Last Spotify and Discord. Yes. All right. Let's see. Yeah. All right. Uh, we usually do weekly questions on, um, oh my god, did I do two weekly questions this week? Yeah. Oh my god. Wait, hold on. Was six 20, was six 20 this week? Uh, yes. I think. No, no, it wasn't, it wasn't, it wasn't, it wasn't. Well, it was Saturday, which means that it was after I did one yesterday. We did do. Um, all right. Well, we'll do one this week and no, we'll maybe we'll do two. Let's see here. Let's just do, who cares? Let's just do it again next week. Who cares? All right. People like answering questions. It's fun. The questions, the, oh wait, no, I didn't wait. Did I? I mean, you feel it all right? I don't, hold on. When was 615? No, that was last. Okay, so people responded after. Oh, okay. Okay, we'll, we'll read those. So, we're all safe and said to, um, the one we had last week, which is what is something you think each member of the podcast is doing well and what you think they could do better. Um, we're all safe, said, my favorite rep number, ram, oh, uh, good, being good with the community and giving them amazing advice, bad, going off topic at times. Not always a bad thing. Just needed something to critique you on, um, BCA, good, having a sense of humor and not being a crybaby, bad, always being on roblox at the start or, no, we've read this one. Yeah, we did read these. I'm sorry, dude, I'm losing my mind. I'm so sorry. Also, I'm not always on roblox. It's a lie. I go on it occasionally. And it's only in the break room. I never go on roblox during the episode. Okay, I think there's also one here that we read. I don't know. We're gonna, we'll figure it out for the next episode. I out, I don't know, man. Uh, but this week's question, we'll do this one. Uh, this week's criticism castle question was, what is your favorite joke or funny moment throughout the entirety of the podcast? And, uh, I'll say fans that kindly infrared laser lens, I'm sorry, kindly infrared laser, it's kindly infrared laser lenses yourself, pal. Get it right. With that, that was a, that was a funny moment. I'm pretty sure. Yeah, now Rob just says kill yourself and it's not as funny. Well, I mean, it, it's pretty funny, but I beg to differ. It's, it's crazy how like saying a pseudo swear word while pseudo, so I like a pseudo swear word, kind of like our rating, but saying kill yourself doesn't. Yeah, that's so dumb. And it could be used in a completely different context, like talking about like a donkey, like exactly. This is so stupid. Yeah. And then, um, let's see here. Uh, then does said that it's a, you said, that's such a hard one. Uh, first one that comes to mind is stick squad though. When I was younger, I would pick up sticks and pretend they were weapons. I actually had one that lasted me like three years. It looked like a wizard staff. Sticks remind me of when I was younger. So for that reason, Mega Man beating people. with sticks. It's my favorite. I love the stick squad. I love it. I like predicted tongue. This was after your tongue, I think. Wait, it was? Wait, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, there's predates tongue. It would have had to have. It literally did because I only started talking about tongue in the stick squad like after a tongue was created. I would have spoken about tongue being in the stick squad if you existed before the stick squad. You're absolutely right. So stick squad predates tongue. That's crazy. I want to find out if someone out there listening knows what episode it was, please let us know. I want to hear the the stick squad. We're offering a $10 bounty that is not being paid by me. Yeah, a $10 bounty to possibly if you're lucky to whoever you get down to ever you go back like a few seasons and you listen to MTTM. I'll give you $3 in steam currency. How about that? Yeah, buy you a month steam if you can find it. I have plenty of money. Yeah, that's not me black saying that's me saying I don't know what to do. Okay, we get steam gift cards from when I did the Elvis thing. Oh, yeah, you do, right? Yeah, I'll soon. Well, he's going to get a job maybe soon. Anyway, that's all I think. Who wrote this? Wait, well, I don't know why I'm saying who wrote this on. This is multiple people. Thank you to everyone who answered. This was Jack sorry, Rousey fan and Dust. Yeah, I'm sorry, Rousey just said in the reviews, do you know the way rip a pan app and does channel? Yeah, it's man of potato fatato. Five nuts out of clicks. Right. Yes, Ram. I don't something like that. Thank you so much to Greg stews, he'll master and everyone who answered this week's question for the reviews and five star views. If you want to be in criticism cast the next time, make sure to leave her. If you five star not, it doesn't matter. He's one of your criticism, like me implies news. Thank you man. Mega man. Can you kill me? I just want to die. Okay, so OG season nine started today. Very fun. It was great to be back at Neil Tilted and the Mega Mall. New sprites came out today. We got the fish striker or a king and Grim Reaper sprite. We also have been released, but they're not out yet. And that is the air and seven sprite. And the guardian skin, which has like the sprite inside, did also update and it does have the new sprites in it. So that means that if my sprite does win, it can be part of that skin, which means Mega man's couldn't confirm. Yes, but this is just if it's one. It is not infinite. It's just. Yeah. If in one Mega Man win, although he is winning, it's a Olivia Rodrigo got into the game tonight. And that is a good thing, because next week, there is a new festival pass coming out. That means that Olivia Rodrigo isn't going to be part of it, so that means we're getting somebody else. Nothing has been leaked on who it is yet, but I'm hoping on a few good ones. It's a lowly good thing. Dr. Chad nuts. I think either also got released tonight. What an odd choice for a skin. Why would they put gloves in the game? They should put them in. Oh yeah, we also got a scuba. He knows. No, it's funny. I hate that one. I hope everyone who uses that gets like executed. It's not what you're talking about. Yeah, yeah, that scuba dance. Is that what they're putting in the game? Yeah, I just did tonight. Yeah, all their runs that use that gift need to be like anything out of that. That's really really sad. I shouldn't say that. No, Garfield actually said that. I don't know. This is like extremely niche. In the Christmas special for Garfield. This is so niche. When they're singing in the car, I think Garfield says whoever came up with the idea for Christmas or something like that should be dragged out into the street and shot or something. Oh my god. Garfield, what are you doing? It's really funny. American dad has been has been leaked. Yeah, that means Ram has been out of wallet for one final time. The device. This is it. Yeah, and a lot of people have the meabing about it. How fortnight did it a lot better than Call of Duty? He's in cod. Yeah, what? How have they done it? How have they already done it better than Call of Duty? He's not even in the game yet. This is the leak. They leaked what the skin looks like. He looks a little glazing. He looks a lot better than in college and fortnight then. This looks like a cod. I think we're forgetting that they added the squid game doll to cod. Can we like talk about that for a second? What are we doing? Where you see was leaked image. I was leaked. Oh, it just, yeah, I'm seeing this. I'm seeing it. He just looks weird. It was very light. I think I sent it through that. Forgot the bug header in the game. God, what's caught even anymore? Yeah, I sent it in it. The skin looks like the stand skin looks like it. Yeah, the fortnight one looks so much better. It looks like AI in the cod one. Yeah, it does look better. Time to kick it. Anyway. Yeah. Any more news with fortnight? The Conceptor Royale contest ends next week on Wednesday. And I might be doing a stream on that day. Whoa. Yeah, I think I think that's all I got. Cool. All right. New video. Go watch it. Yeah. There's an I'm going to be starting a new one soon. So keep an eye out for that. That's really good. Oh, I'm done with school. Yeah. I'm going to see you next year. That's it. It was a good video. It wasn't a good video. You should go watch it. Yes. Anyways, Ram. Yes. Yeah. um Sunset Saga, of course. I'm working on it more. Sunset Saga now. No longer soon. Um, uh, bully Deluxe came out last week. Um, I'm bullied Deluxe. That's a T.A. During the podcast. Um, me and Ralsei listened to it. We did a reaction stream. And then this was her again. I remember the 20th year already in it. Uh, and it was a lot fun. It was very good. Uh, Delta in chapter five is out. I've been playing it. It's good. Um, Besides that. Oh, uh, Avatar live action season two came out today. I've seen one episode so far. I'd say it's already better than the live action for season one, which was okay. Ram. Yeah. Sunset. Sun. So no, no, not soon now. Good. Um, and what else? Uh, Avatar Legends, the fun and game closed beta next weekend, which I will be able to play because I have it pre-ordered. Oh, very safe for that. Uh, but I hope you play as a. I hope so too. I want to fight you. You probably won't because he says he hates anime, even though Avatar isn't really an anime. Oh, my god. Yeah, there's zero chance I'll play it then. Yes, but this buffoon couldn't tell his spoon from before. He doesn't know. You can't tell a minor from a non-mine either. That was a good one. Yeah. Anyways, yeah, I've been BCI. I think Super Mega Man 10, and I'm Remtee GM. And thank you all for listening to an episode. It means that ages will see you all later. Goodbye. Bye. Bye. Bye. I just realized our outro implies that Ram is the only person that remains as him when that episode ends because being Mega Man go, I've been and Ram just says I am. So why did we start doing that? We've always done that. Yeah, I know, but like why? I don't know. [BLANK_AUDIO] do that. Anyway, I'm an architect. Um, palm these armpits. Um, anyway, bye bye. Oh, no, no. Yes. Good luck. Good luck. Good luck. Bye bye.

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. The meme "I am a freaking architect" originates from a scene in the movie *The Backrooms*, where a character named Clark angrily complains about selling furniture to his therapist, Mary.
  2. The scene became viral on TikTok and Instagram Reels, particularly when paired with poorly constructed Minecraft builds, emphasizing the humor in bad architecture.
  3. The Backrooms is a fictional concept based on an internet image of an abandoned furniture store, now known to be a real location in Indiana or Minnesota, which has been digitally manipulated.
  4. The Backrooms is described as an infinite, memory-based space that misremembers reality, leading to surreal and distorted environments and entities.
  5. The movie's core concept is unsettling—not due to monsters, but because of the unknown, endless, and memory-driven nature of the space.
  6. The meme spread rapidly in June 2026, with early videos gaining over 100,000 views in days, showcasing its viral appeal.
  7. Critics praise the movie’s atmosphere and set design but note the film’s slow pacing and lack of action as potentially boring for some viewers.
  8. The show also discusses deeper themes, such as the nature of reality, memory, and digital creation, linking the Backrooms to a "digital circus" of absurdity and glitched reality.
  9. A major point of debate is whether the film’s ending or character development (e.g., the pirate) makes sense within the Backrooms’ memory-based logic.
  10. The discussion includes humor about character choices (e.g., Jacks being trans or a "horrible" fanboy), and the group expresses a preference for the meme’s absurdity over realism.

Summary:

The meme "I am a freaking architect" gained viral traction after being featured in a scene from the 2026 movie *The Backrooms*, a film based on an internet-famous image of an abandoned furniture store. In the scene, a character shouts about selling furniture, which became a humorous parody when paired with poorly constructed Minecraft builds on TikTok and Instagram. The Backrooms concept is rooted in a memory-based, infinite space that misremembers reality, creating surreal and often terrifying environments.

The film's eerie atmosphere, built on the idea of an unknown, ever-expanding dimension, resonates more with viewers than traditional monster threats. While the movie is praised for its atmosphere and set design, some critics find its pacing slow and its narrative underdeveloped. The meme’s success underscores a broader cultural trend of using absurdity and digital creativity to comment on real-world anxieties.

The discussion also touches on deeper themes like memory, reality, and digital identity, framing the Backrooms as a "digital circus" of glitched logic and surrealism. The group expresses both appreciation for the film’s originality and dissatisfaction with its lack of action, ultimately celebrating the meme’s humor and cultural impact.

FAQs

The meme originated from a scene in the movie 'The Backrooms,' where the protagonist Clark shouts to his therapist, Mary, saying 'I am a f-ing architect. I'm just selling crap furniture because someone will get off their fat freaking butt and help me.' The scene became a viral meme on TikTok and Instagram, especially when paired with poorly constructed Minecraft builds.

The Backrooms is a fictional concept inspired by an abandoned furniture store image from the 1970s, which was posted online by a user named 'Fortune.' It's not a real place but exists as a digital and psychological space based on memories and misremembered realities, often described as an infinite, eerie labyrinth.

The meme went viral because it humorously contrasts the idea of being a professional architect with a completely chaotic, poorly constructed build. When paired with bad Minecraft builds, it creates a relatable and funny juxtaposition of professional pretense and amateur effort.

The Backrooms in the movie is presented as an infinite, memory-based space that misremembers and distorts reality. It's a place that evolves by copying elements from the real world, leading to surreal and often terrifying environments, such as still-lives, distorted beings, and forgotten memories.

The creatures in the Backrooms are based on memories of people who have entered the space. They exist because the Backrooms misremembers and re-creates real-world elements, so they appear in areas where human memories were once stored, making their presence feel both random and inevitable.

The Backrooms is described as a memory-based place that evolves over time, attempting to recreate the real world. It's not a living ecosystem in the traditional sense, but it does develop its own logic, creating new structures and entities based on what it misremembers from human experience.

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