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Hey Friend Listen / It's Gonna Get Way Worse

Hey Friend Listen / It's Gonna Get Way Worse

Updated Dec 27, 2021 at 04:05PM EST by Adam.

Added Dec 01, 2021 at 01:39AM EST by blackfyre.

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About

Hey Friend Listen / It's Gonna Get Way Worse is a copypasta meme of a photo of a Russian soldier traveling through Grozny in the year 2000. The captioned image would later be used as a redraw meme.

Origin

The original image of the Russian soldier first appeared on Tumblr on July 26th, 2016, which was uploaded by insurgent87 (shown below).[1]



The earliest known usage of the image as a captioned meme was on April 16th, 2021, on the r/stalker subreddit. The image was posted by HEPS_08, and received over 1,000 upvotes (shown below).[2]


Hey friend listen, I know the world is scary right now but Its gonna get way worse

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On April 20th, 2021, Gianni Matragrano posted a dub of the captioned image to YouTube. The dub (shown below) received over 2 million views in 8 months.[3]



This dub of the scene would later be used to recreate the scene using different characters and games, such as Team Fortress 2 (shown below, left)[4] and Half-Life Opposing Force (shown below, right).[5]



On September 4th, 2021, TJPones posted a redraw of the scene to YouTube which replaced the soldier with Twilight Sparkle, using an AI generator to dub her voice. This version (shown below) received over 3,000 views.[6]



Redraws

Artists would also redraw the scene using various anime and video game characters. On May 5th, 2021, MisterTililing posted a redraw of the scene using Ms. Dandelion from the videogame Girls' Front, which received over 1,000 upvotes.[7]


Hey Commander, listen. I know the world is scary right now but trust me., MR.T It's gonna get way worse!

On June 9th, 2021, haonfest_art posted a redraw of the scene using an original character styled after characters from Tom Clancy's The Division_. This redraw (shown below) received over 2,800 likes.[8] On October 25h, 2021, scarstuff posted a redraw of the scene to Twitter, which uses an NCR soldier from Fallout: New Vegas (shown below, right).[9]


Hey friend listen, ) Know the world is scary rightnow but MAN Its gonnagel way worse Hey friend listen, i know the world's a scary place right now but scar's stuff It's gonna get way worse

Various Examples




Search Interest

External References

[1] Tumblr – insurgent87 – Grozny,2000

[2] Reddit – r/stalker – Me after fight 2 ambushes in the Red Forest CS and see how I'm almost out of ammo and multiple packs of psy-dogs and 2 bloodsuckers are coming my way

[3] YouTube – Hey friend listen,

[4] YouTube – [SFM] Hey friend listen,

[5] YouTube – It’s Gonna Get Way Worse meme

[6] YouTube – Its Gonna Get a Lot Worse

[7] Reddit – r/girlsfrontline – An advice from the Ms. Dandelion.

[8] Twitter – @haonfest_art – hey listen friend

[9] Twitter – @Scar_stuff – Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter

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see, normally it'd only get worse if we actively caused it to do so, but the past few years have shown how powerless most people are without resorting to violence and most people aren't willing to go that far, so it's going to get worse because those that make it worse are unopposed. Fuck everything.

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