He-Man's Advice

About

He-Man's Advice is an exploitable meme from Masters of the Universe, in which He-Man gives a helpful tip, then rides away. It usually ends with "Until next time" or Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

Origin

The meme is based on PSAs that would show at the end of every episode of Masters of the Universe. In these PSAs, He-Man would go over the events of the episode and give moral advice before wrapping up the show. Users would later use screenshots from the PSA "The Right Way is The Best Way" (shown below) to create the exploitable image. This video was posted to YouTube by firenine on October 15th, 2011, and received over 6,100 views.^[1]

The image combination was first used on September 5th, 2012, on the Facebook page "Conselhos do He-Man"^[2] (He-Man's Advice). The image (shown below) received over 2,900 likes, and over 14,000 shares.

On April 10th, 2020, the Facebook page Upbeat He-Man^[3] was the first to upload an image using the meme template in English, earning 330 likes for the image (shown below).

Spread

This He-Man template continued to exist on the Facebook page and in Spanish meme circles until 2021, where it started to gain traction elsewhere. On May 16th, 2021, the Imgur^[4] user 2scientists1pup uploaded a version of this meme that received 90,000 views in four months (shown below).

On August 4th, 2021, the Reddit^[5] user u/accxchaos posted the standard version of the meme to the r/dankmemes/ subreddit, earning 800 upvotes in one month (shown below).

Search Interest

Various Examples

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