About

Been Thinking About Life and Mortality Today is a copypasta inspired by a tweet by Arizona republican Congressman Paul Gosar. It reads, "Been thinking about life and mortality today. I’d rather die gloriously in battle than from a virus. In a way it doesn’t matter. But it kinda does." Gosar added an image from the Korean film The Great Battle in his tweet. This led others to copy his text and add humorous pictures in their own variations.

Origin

On March 9th, 2020, Arizona congressman Paul Gosar tweeted, "Been thinking about life and mortality today. I’d rather die gloriously in battle than from a virus. In a way it doesn’t matter. But it kinda does," adding a picture of the poster for Korean historical drama The Great Battle.^[1] The image gained over 380 retweets and 2,000 likes (shown below).

Spread

The tweet became a quick copypasta on the website. Twitter user @_cingraham^[2] posted it with a picture of a squirrel in medieval armor, gaining over 230 retweets and 1,800 likes (shown below, left). User @MJS_DC^[3] posted a picture of dogs appearing to battle, gaining over 260 retweets and 1,900 likes (shown below, right).

Twitter user @MollyJongFast^[4] tweeted a My Little Pony GIF with the copypasta, gaining over 25 retweets and 490 likes (shown below, left). User @BowTiePolitics posted a clip from Monty Python and the Holy Grail (shown below, right).

User @papapishu^[4] theorized that Gosar came upon the image by googling "Great battle" (shown below).

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