Fan art of a seated Yukari Akiyama from the anime Girls Und Panzer was posted by Pixiv user Shangus on March 5, 2022. Several months later the image accompanied by its iconic text began to circulate leading to its earliest known post on Twitter by user @Raythehon

The caption reads:

HEY, ANON… CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, BUT… DO YOU ACTUALLY LIKE TANKS?
HEH-HЕH… I KNEW IT! YOU KNOW THAT TANKS ARE FOR GIRLS, RIGHT? WON'T YOUR FRIENDS THINK YOU'RE SOME KIND OF FAGGOT IF THEY FIND OUT?
OH, DON'T WORRY, I WON'T TELL THEM… BUT IT'LL COST YOU. IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BE OUTED AS A SISSY TANK- LOVER, YOU'LL HAVE TO BUILD TANK MODELS WITH ME EVERY WEEK FROM NOW ON!
I'LL SEE YOU ON FRIDAY NIGHT, GIRLFRIEND.

The image found success in the GuP and wider Anime twitter community and grew increasingly popular with a peak around mid-2023. Not everyone found it funny however, as the image seems to make many users very uncomfortable and others, just angry. The artwork itself without accompanying text in many user’s minds is inextricably linked to the meme so twitter users now enjoy posting the original artwork due to its association and negative reaction
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Numerous variants and recreations have spawned following the same structure as the original text incorporating other anime characters and some sort of eccentricity related to the character.

Anchovy from the same series:

Yui from k-on! and tea (more k-on variants)

Rat variant Yukari