10 Memes About The Controversial Viking Movie 'The Northman'

The Northman is a new movie that's trending due to a reason the directors likely didn't intend: many people believe it was meant for exclusively white audiences. The controversy surrounding The Northman is that it contains an entirely white cast. It also is a Viking movie and aims for "historical accuracy," and with what we know about the Vikings, they were indeed pretty white, which is getting lots of people debating this aspect of the film, since yes, this is kind of what history looked like.

But either way, it's being satirically (and sometimes seriously) compared in memes to an insecure 4chan user's wildest fantasy, since it's violent, very masculine, and yes, very white. In the modern era, watching a bunch of sweaty and brutal white men fight it out for two hours on screen can be exhausting; however, not everyone's reception of the movie is negative, with many critics saying it's simply a take on a historic culture and era. But whatever side you take here, you'll definitely agree that these memes are pretty great.