About

Another One Bites the Dust refers to an Object Labeling meme were a character labeled as "Another One" is shown biting and object/other character with the tag "The Dust" in reference to the Queen song, sung by Freddie Mercury, with the same name. The format was most popular on /r/Animemes and Tumblr during the second quarter of 2018.

Origin

While the true origin of the meme is unclear, most of the images started appearing during May to June of 2018. The earliest example was uploaded by Metapod para presidente^[1] on Facebook on May 10th, 2018. The image (shown below) is taken from Pokémon and shows a Squirtle biting the neck of a Charmander with the tags. Said image managed to get 8,000 shares and 4,700 likes.

Spread

Two days later, /r/Animemes user ChoffyNotCoffy^[2] uploaded a version showing the character Kanna Kammui from Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid (shown below left). The image started a trend on the subreddit where multiple images with the meme were uploaded daily, including an image showing the character Kasumi Shinomiya from the anime GJ-bu bitting the arm of another character. This image got 1,900 upvotes in the coming months (shown below center). Another which shows the character Komekko from Konosuba biting her sister's familiar Chomusuke uploaded on September 22nd got 2,600 upvotes in the coming days (shown below right).

This trend wasn't exclusive to Reddit. On May 31, 2018 Tumblr user pinkswall^[3] uploaded an image showing Kermit the Frog biting Vincent Price which got 107,000 notes (shown below left), while another image showing a scene from Jurassic Park uploaded the 15th of that month got 9,000 notes (shown below right).

Various Examples

Search Interest

External References