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Help! He's Attacking Me! / Agh! / She Misgendered Me refers to a webcomic created by cartoonist Tatsuya Ishida for his Sinfest series in 2022. The anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-woke comic shows an attacker with a knife chasing a woman who shouts, "Help! He's attacking me!" The attacker then falls to the ground exclaiming, "Agh!" A group of kids is shown asking the attacker, "What's wrong?" The attacker replies, "She misgendered me. I'm a zee/zim," referencing a set of non-binary pronouns as they glare at the woman. Supporters of its right-wing rhetoric praised the comic. Those against it ridiculed it and mocked it, mostly through ironic memes that recaptioned it and re-edited it like an exploitable, adding new words and details to skew the context and rebel against its original sentiment. The first memes spread on Reddit in 2022. They resurfaced en masse on Twitter / X in 2024 and early 2025, following similar discourse about Ishida's Hey Young People / Bonerrr Bonerrr comic.

Origin

On June 9th, 2022, webcomic artist Tatsuya Ishida shared a four-panel comic to his X^[1] account @TatsuyaIshida9 called, "Misgendered." The comic showed an attacker chasing a woman with a knife who shouts, "Help! He's attacking me!" The attacker then shouts, "Agh!" and falls to the ground. A group of kids asks, "What's wrong?" to which the attacker responds, "She misgendered me. I'm a zee/zim." The two younger people then scowl at the woman. Over three years, the post gained over 8,700 likes (shown below).

Spread

On December 15th, 2022, Redditor^[2] nova_spamming reposted a two-by-two version of the original comic to the subreddit /r/terriblefacebookmemes (HD version shown below), captioning it, "Found one in the wild," receiving over 12,000 upvotes in two years.

In the following days, Redditors began exploiting and recaptioning the comic. For instance, on December 16th, Redditor^[3] SaltyPeter3434 shared an iteration about X-Men to the subreddit /r/bonehurtingjuice, gaining over 1,500 upvotes in three years (shown below).

On December 20th, 2022, Redditor^[4] craigdahlke shared an anti-meme iteration to /r/bonehurtingjuice in which the attacker and the woman are lovers doing "kink play" that's "getting out of hand." Over three years, the post gained over 1,200 upvotes (shown below).

In 2024, memes following the format spread on iFunny, evident in an iteration shared by iFunnier^[5] @_Monika_ on July 14th, referencing the 500 Cigarettes meme. Over seven months, the post amassed over 18,900 smiles (shown below).

On September 4th, 2024, iFunnier^[6] @WuuthradTheRacistBattleAx shared an iteration referencing the song "Scatman," gaining over 1,200 smiles in five months (shown below).

In February 2025, discourse and memes about another Sinfest comic
called Bonerrr Bonerrr spread on X.^[7][8] The memes renewed interest in other anti-LGBTQ+ Sinfest comics including the Help! He's Attacking Me! cartoon.

For instance, on February 18th, X^[9] user @alienpurin tweeted, "THERE'S MORE I'M SHITTING MYSELF," attaching the Help! He's Attacking Me! cartoon. The quote tweet received over 204,000 likes in a day (shown below).

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