Cada Día Más X / Goku's Super Saiyan 4 Reflection

About

Cada Día Más X refers to a series of recaption image macro memes featuring Goku's Super Saiyan 4 Reflection and sometimes pets like dogs and cats looking at their own reflection in a mirror paired with the caption in Spanish "Cada Día Más Esquizofrenico," which translates to "Every day more schizophrenic." The memes started around April 2021 as an image macro related to the slang term "based," recaptioning the term "basado" with "schizophrenia" and other terms in a "Cada Día Más X" phrasal template.

Origin

One of the earliest uses of Goku's Super Saiyan 4 Reflection image was posted on Memedroid^[1] by user @Yui_Nazi on January 14th, 2021. The meme (shown below) is paired with the overlay text in Spanish "Men every time they pass through a car window," which garnered over 1,600 reactions in two years.

The scene is originally from episode 35 of the Dragon Ball GT anime. YouTuber^[2] @zeldrisoda498 posted the full scene of Goku's Super Saiyan 4 transformation on August 18th, 2021, garnering over 191,000 views and 7,400 likes in two years (shown below).

On April 13th, 2021, the YouTube^[3] page @MemeBall dedicated to Dragon Ball memes posted a since-deleted video of Goku's Super Saiyan 4 transformation paired with the recaptioned text in Spanish "cada día más misogino," which translates as "every day more misogynistic." The post was reposted by user @vicxor2198^[4] (shown below, left), garnering over 44,000 views and 1,700 likes in two years. A few days later, on July 16th, @MemeBall^[5] uploaded a new version of the meme, replacing the word "misogynistic" with "basado," which is translated as "based." The post (shown below, right) garnered over 601,000 views and 29,000 likes in two years.

Spread

On September 2nd, 2021, a still image of a different scene in which Goku is looking at his own reflection was recaptioned with the text in Spanish "Cada Día Más Esquizofrenico" by IFunny^[6] user @Lyukiz. The post (shown below) garnered 15 reactions in two years.

Approximately a year later, on September 8th, 2022, Twitter^[7] user posted Goku's Super Saiyan 4 transformation paired with the caption "Cada Día Más Esquizofrenico," which garnered over 101,000 likes and 9,200 retweets in a year. (shown below)

As the meme became popularized on the internet, versions of it featuring pets looking at their own reflection also went viral. For example, on September 3rd, 2022, iFunny^[8] user @CR7_OFICIAL posted a picture of a dog looking in the mirror (shown below, left) paired with the overlay text "Cada Día Más Esquizofrenico," garnering 21 reactions and two comments in a year. On April 14th, 2023, iFunny^[9] user uploaded a version of the meme featuring a chubby cat in front of a mirror (shown below, right). which garnered 4 reactions in four months.

Various Examples

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