Professor Oak meme depicted in the style of an Advice Animals meme format.

Professor Oak / Advice Oak

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Updated Feb 22, 2021 at 02:45PM EST by Zach.

Added Oct 25, 2010 at 10:38AM EDT by aximili999.

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About

Professor Oak, sometimes referred to as Advice Oak, is an image macro series featuring the face of Pokemon character Professor Oak, which is used to point out the various illogical details about the video game's world, also known as video game logic, and the alleged jerkish behavior of the character. Appearing in the form of an Advice Animal meme similar to Advice Dog, this format also uses a color wheel background with top and bottom text captions.

Origin

Professor Oak's character was introduced in the very first games, Pokemon Red & Blue for the GameBoy, released in Japan in 1996 and introduced to the Western world in 1998. A Pokemon researcher who is widely considered to be the best in his field, Oak is a source of much info and help throughout both the games and the spin-off anime series. Interestingly, he is also the grandfather of the equally memetic Gary Oak.

Although the exact first example of Professor Oak appearing in the Advice Animals format is unknown, the earliest post found online traces back to December 7th, 2010, when user St2udent shared two variants to the Penro forum on Forumotion[1] under a thread titled "Pokememes: Gotta spam 'em all!" (shown below). This is also the earliest-known instance of the meme being coined "Advice Oak."


ARE YOU A BOY OR GİRL? YOU ARE ABOUT TO BEGIN A WONDERFUL JOURNEY FIGHTING WILD ANIMALS AND OTHER CHILDREN, IN THE WILD

Spread

The format continued to spread and was added to various meme-creator sites in the following months and years. On September 24th, 2011, FunnyJunk[2] user pokefunnies posted another example to the site referencing the game's logic (seen below, left). On July 28th, 2012, Redditor ipodbeast posted a stack of three memes to the /r/pokemon[3] subreddit, receiving 261 upvotes and 16 comments in six months (seen below, right).


CATCH POKEMON IN THE MIDDLE OF THE OCEAN YOU MUST USE A MACHINE TO TEACH IT HOW TO SWIM Pokémemes memebase.cm HOSPITALS ARE FREE LEMONADE $350 memegenerator.net ALL POKEMONS ARE DEAD GET TELEPORTED TO A HOSPITAL AT THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MAP YOU DONT HAVE ANY ROOM FOR THAT ITEM BUT YOU HAVE ROOM FOR 99 OF THE ITEMS YOU ALREADY HAVE

On October 12th, 2012, MemeCenter[4] user unparalleled posted a version combining the Success Kid meme with the Professor Oak template, accumulating over 808 likes in roughly eight years (shown below, left). On October 9th, 2014, an unknown user created another variant on Quick Meme,[5] accumulating nearly 8,000 shares in roughly six years (shown below, right).


Catches Chamander, Squirtle, and Bulbasaur. In a town surrounded by Pidgey and Rattata CAN'T NAME RIVAL D--- D---- IS FINE quickmeme.com

Various Examples


HAS LOVING GRANDSON THAT HE KNEW SINCE THE GRANDSON WAS A BABY WHAT WAS HIS NAME AGAIN? NO, YOUR POKEMON CAN'T SWIM YOU NEED A PLASTIC DISC TO DO THAT MEET GIRL IN FOREST, KILL HER PET STEAL HER MONEY GET PHONE NUMBER

FREE HELING SERVICES $350 LEMONADE NO, YOUR SCYTHER CAN'T FLY BUT YOUR FAINTED PIDGEOT CAN "CONGRATULATIONS ON CATCHING ALL 150 POKEMON!" MENTIONS THERE ARE FOUR OTHER REGIONS

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Search Interest

External References

[1] Forumotion – Pokememes

[2] FunnyJunk – pokefunnies

[3] Reddit – r/pokemon

[4] MemeCenter – Successful Oak

[5] Quick Meme – "Naming Rivals":Successful Oak

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