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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

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