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Defeated Male Leaves

Defeated Male Leaves

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Defeated Male Leaves refers to a drawing of a skinny male lion retreating, illustrated by an orange arrow underneath it and the caption "defeated male leaves." The image comes from a 2008 issue of the National Wildlife Federation's Ranger Rick's Zoobooks about lions. The page containing the image was posted online in 2020 and a crop containing just the lion and the caption became popularized in image macros in April 2021.

Origin

On May 7th, 2020, the Ranger Rick website[1] posted a page from their 2008 issue of Zoobooks on lions describing how a lion pride works (shown below). The page includes a description of how male lions will fight off other lions who come to challenge the pride for its females. If the male lion loses it has to leave the pride, described by an image of a skinny lion leaving captioned "defeated male leaves."


F The lions in a pride are usually very friendly with each other. Often, when they meet each other, they rub their heads together in a friendly greeting. amily life is very important to lions. Of all the cats in the world, they are the only ones that live together in large family groups. Other cats, like leopards and tigers, live alone most of the time. But lions believe in togetherness. They raise their young together, and they hunt together. A family of lions is called a pride. There are between 3 and 40 lions in a pride-and a typical pride includes a group of females, their young, and several males. The females are usually sisters or closely related, and they often stay with the same pride all of their lives. But the male lions usually stay with a pride for only a few years. Eventually, invading males try to take over the pride, and a battle takes place between the pride males and the invaders. The outcome is shown below. Because they live so closely together, lions in a pride need good ways to communicate their Afraid emotions to each other. They have expressive faces to help them do it. Can you tell what emotions these lions The loud roar of a lion has several uses. When are communicating? they are hunting at night or can't see each other during the day, the lions in a pride sometimes roar to keep in touch. Males often roar to chase away intruders into the pride's territory. Annoyed DEFEATED MALE LEAVES Angry The main job of male lions is to protect the territory of the pride, the area in which the pride lives. From time to time, other males may enter the territory and challenge the lions that live there 1. Male lions mostly watch for marauders and sleep. The females usually do the hunting. When the hunt is over, the males often drive the females away from the meat and take "the lion's share" for themselves. The females and cubs eat the rest. Often, a savage fight takes place between the pride males and the males from outside (2). Sometimes, they fight so violently that one or more of the males is seriously injured or even killed. If the pride lions win, they get to stay with the pride. If the lions from outside win, they take over the pride 3, and the defeated males have to go away 4 OUTSIDER CHALLENGES MANE IN PRIDE NEW MALE JOINS PRIDE

On April 12th, 2021, Redditor jjcrawdad posted an image macro to /r/dankmemes[2] with a caption about a man farting and a feminist farting louder, using the cropped lion image to describe the man's feeling of defeat, gaining over 70,000 upvotes in seven months (shown below). This is the earliest known meme to use the image.


Man: *Farts* Feminist Woman: *Farts Louder* Man: DEFEATED MALE LEAVES 4 made with mematic

Spread

The image spread over the course of the year, becoming popular across sites including Reddit, Instagram and Facebook. On April 13th, 2021, Redditor TheSoulVibrators posted a new version of the meme to /r/memes,[3] gaining over 76,200 upvotes in seven months (shown below). The meme was reposted to Instagram[4] jokezar that day, gaining over 92,000 likes in the same span of time.


When my GF asks me to open a jar of pickles and I can't open it either DEFEATED MALE LEAVES 4.

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When your girl asks you to fix her car but you know nothing about cars: DEFEATED MALE LEAVES @forgednfast Me: *Confesses my feelings to my crush* Her: Ew Me: DEFEATED MALE LEAVES 4 made with mematic My cat when I leave a bigger s--- in his litter box. DEFEATED MALE LEAVES 4. when you slide to her DMs but she shoots you down u/56ab118 DEFEATED MALE LEAVES

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External References

[1] Ranger Rick – Family Life is Very Important to Lions

[2] Reddit – jjcrawdad

[3] Reddit – I had one job

[4] Instagram – jokezar

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