About

Eminem Holding a Rocket Launcher is an image macro series featuring a pair of screenshots from the music video for "Godzilla" by Eminem and featuring Juice Wrld. The top image in the meme shows a man in a black mask pointing a pistol at Eminem. Directly under the image is another screenshot from the video that features Eminem pointing a rocket launcher at the masked man. The image has inspired a number of object labeling memes.

Orign

On March 9th, 2020, the YouTube account Lyrical Lemonade uploaded the music video for the song "Godzilla" by Eminem and featuring Juice WRLD. In the video, a man in a black mask threatens Eminem with a pistol. Eminem responds by pointing a rocket launcher at the man. Within two days, the post received more than 24 million views (shown below).

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Hours later, on March 10th, Redditor ^[1] mijuzz7 shared one of the earliest known versions of the two-panel meme (shown below, left). This example features the man labeled "My dad telling me I'm adopted and Eminem is labeled "Me calling him a virgin." Within 24 hours, the meme received more than 8,300 points (95% upvoted). Over the next 24 hours, people continued to share variations of the meme (example below, center).

The following day, Redditor^[2] famsteve20015 shared a variation in which the masked man is labeled "Kanye". The post received more than 11,000 points (86% upvoted) and 165 comments in less than 24 hours (shown below, center).

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