Doomer Thought Chains

About

Doomer Thought Chains refers to a subset of Doomer memes in which Doomer and other characters imagine interactions with the Doomer Girl, with the imaginary scenarios happening inside other imaginary scenarios multiple times in the vein of the film Inception. The Thought Chain memes usually parody the early-2020 non-ironic Doomer memes.

Origin

On January 2nd, 2020, an unknown user posted the first known Doomer Girl meme, with the meme shared by users on Reddit, ^[1] Twitter^[2] and Facebook on the same day (shown below).

On January 4th, 2020, Facebook^[3] user Andrew Pigeon posted the first known meme in which Doomer imagined interaction with the Doomer girl, while in reality he was left on read, with the post receiving over 670 reactions and 2,300 shares in two weeks (shown below, left). However, the comic which spawned Doomer Thought Chains memes was posted by Facebook^[4] user Sahaza HR on January 10th, 2020 (shown below, right). In the comic, an unsanitary Wojak imagined himself as a Doomer from the original Doomer Girl meme, while in reality, the Doomer Girl reacted to his approach by calling the police (shown below, right). The edit received over 3,900 reactions and over 10,000 shares in one week.

Spread

On January 11th, 2020, Facebook^[5] page I love uzbekistan posted the first known two-level Doomer Thought Chain, with the post receiving over 1,500 reactions and 4,900 shares in one week (shown below, left). On the same day, Facebook^[6] page Hotdogs Run This Page posted a three-level edit which received over 1,000 reactions and 1,800 shares (shown below, right).

Starting on January 11th, the format gained notable popularity on Facebook, later also spreading to iFunny, Twitter and other online platforms. For example, on January 12th, 2020, Twitter^[7] user @BlancLauz posted a fan-art of a two-level though chain which received over 17,400 retweets and 104,900 likes (shown below, left). On January 13th, Facebook^[8] group Autofellatio posted a four-level Doomer Thought Chain meme (shown below, right) which received over 2,000 reactions and 2,200 shares. On January 14th, iFunny^[9] user NoelSplinterCell posted a very long The Game edit of the meme which received over 7,700 smiles.

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