Girugamesh

added Apr 16, 2009 at 10:10PM UTC

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In real life, Girugamesh is the name of a Japanese metal band, which was derived from the ancient Sumerian king Gilgamesh. On the web, “Girugamesh” now refers to an internet meme that sprang out of a web commercial made for the 2009 Sakura-Con, an annual anime convention in Seattle. In the 30-sec promo taking place at a sushi bar, a brief-second appearance of a 20-something dressed in gothic stereotype stood out as highly exploitable.

Dressed in Hot Topic-like fashion, the young man awkwardly shouts the name of his favorite Japanese metal band—Girugamesh, which happens to be the engrish pronunciation of Gilgamesh. Needless to say, he was destined to be lulz-positive.

Spread & Popularity

4chan is believed to be the earliest host of “Girugamesh” screen captures, but they were often used to spam the boards, with only the Girugamesh image macros appearing on an entire page. The rapid-fire use of the has calmed, however it is still occasionally used to spam /b/.

On YouTube, many parodies and reposts exist:

Techno Remix:

Pokemon Edition: It’s Girugamesh!

Slowed Down & Pixelated:

Google Trends

As the graph suggests, search traffic of “Girugamesh” spiked noticeably following the upload of Sakura-con commercial in April 2009. Despite it’s short lifespan, the lulz were many and strong.

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Anthan
Aug 20, 2010 at 02:27PM UTC , Anthan wrote:

Nice band too.

TARDISES
Jun 25, 2010 at 09:45PM UTC , TARDISES wrote:

anyone who associates this meme with the FF character Gilgamesh fails.

lakewood500
May 24, 2010 at 01:37PM UTC , lakewood500 wrote:

oh hey guys. let’s make girugamesh a meme. 4CHAN’s /b/ reposted it enough times. Hey guys 4CHAN. 4CHAN guys. Let’s make this a meme. Meme guys, it was on FOUR CHAN. Plus it has a spike google searches for a small brief period. It has to be meme!

4CHAN GUYS!

Silver the Evil Chao
Apr 21, 2010 at 05:01PM UTC , Silver the Evil Chao wrote:

hits head against wall

Stupid, idiotic…the only good thing about that commercial was that LittleKuriboh made an awesome parody of it.

Anon Uknown
Mar 08, 2010 at 12:09PM UTC , Anon Uknown wrote:

That Commercial is fucking embarrising. The Otaku I have met aren’t anywhere near that retarded jeese. It just makes westerners look like they can define one country with a few fuking semipopular activities that happen to occur or have in the past occured there fuking hell.

chi
Feb 28, 2010 at 08:51PM UTC , chi wrote:

that commercial. horrible. shakes head

Watcher
Feb 13, 2010 at 06:46PM UTC , Watcher wrote:

ariokage
Feb 07, 2010 at 09:59PM UTC , ariokage wrote:

I rember seeing this commercial on tv, I found that kid funy before I found the meme xD

Symmetrical Feet
Dec 14, 2009 at 05:26AM UTC , Symmetrical Feet wrote:

Eeeeeeeh, could be worse; they could have done the CM with an important band, like Dir en grey, Malice Mizer (which many fans mispronounce anyway), Buck-Tick, or X Japan.

And I’m certain Sakura-Con would have found a way to mispronounce ‘X Japan’.

inventoroflies
Dec 12, 2009 at 09:48AM UTC , inventoroflies wrote:

@Symmetrical Feet… hehe… hehe… GIRUGAMESH!!!

Symmetrical Feet
Dec 12, 2009 at 09:44AM UTC , Symmetrical Feet wrote:

Damn fucking weaboos and fucking stupid commercials ruining my fucking ギルガメッシュ and my fucking music. I don’t think I can listen to the band again because of that, the soul-crushing shame of being associated with otaku. Thanks a fucking lot, weaboo breeding ground.

Heinrich Eisenhoffer
Oct 15, 2009 at 03:08AM UTC , Heinrich Eisenhoffer wrote:

Sakura Con got butthurt over the meme in it’s early stages; filing DMCA complaints against YouTubers hosting parody videos. Seems they backed off since then.

Tomberry
Oct 06, 2009 at 05:28PM UTC , Tomberry wrote:

Or not. Damned, I failed horribly.

Tomberry
Oct 06, 2009 at 05:25PM UTC , Tomberry wrote:

ED’s article

It needed to be mentioned.

Erwinator
Oct 06, 2009 at 04:58PM UTC , Erwinator wrote:

YGO:TAS parody XD

zBlueboltZ
Sep 29, 2009 at 07:12PM UTC , zBlueboltZ wrote:

In reality, the japanese guy would have told everyone to STFU

34GET
Aug 24, 2009 at 03:27AM UTC , 34GET wrote:

anyone have the “whose that pokemon?” pic of this? i saw it on /b/ but forgot to save it because most of the thread was filled with fail.

and also, this is most definitely a meme, ive been seeing it alot in the past week.

Mae
Aug 07, 2009 at 03:07AM UTC , Mae wrote:

Oh sad. Now I can never go back to Sakura-con. I’ll have to sit with the other old school fans and bitch about how when WE went, it was all about the anime/manga.

Ninja Raccoon
Aug 04, 2009 at 08:43PM UTC , Ninja Raccoon wrote:

They mis-pronounced “anime”. Damn weeaboos.

Bob Saget
Aug 02, 2009 at 03:44AM UTC , Bob Saget wrote:

Nao with 10% moar weeaboo!

Taryn
Jul 31, 2009 at 09:45AM UTC , Taryn wrote:

lol wat

Steven R.
Jul 31, 2009 at 01:33AM UTC , Steven R. wrote:

Thanks to the admins to confirming this.

Brad
Jul 31, 2009 at 01:10AM UTC , Brad wrote:

updated & confirmed-

Deathy
Jul 29, 2009 at 02:38PM UTC , Deathy wrote:

definite meme plz confirm.

Radien
Jul 20, 2009 at 03:16AM UTC , Radien wrote:

I go to Sakura Con annually, and I saw the commercial before I saw the “Girugamesh” meme. I was pretty embarrassed by the ad. Apparently, Sakura Con only wants to attract weeaboo teenagers as new attendees — the commercials seem to get worse every year.

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