About

I'm Gonna Stop You Right There is a reaction image macro series that uses a screen capture of the Vault-Tec sales representative from the 2015 post-apocalyptic video game Fallout 4. The phrase is placed next to the image of the sales representative with his arm outstretched and used as the punchline to the image's caption.

Origin

On November 10th, 2015, the video game Fallout 4 was released.^[1] At the start of the game, a character known as the Vault-Tec Rep attempts to sell the playable character on a spot in a town fallout shelter (video below).

About seven months later, on June 18th, 2016, Redditor ^[2] thataintkosher posted the image in the /r/Fallout subreddit, reacting to an initial post about attacking the Vault-Tec Rep. The post received more than 50 points in two years (shown below).

Spread

On September 23rd, Redditor^[3] OneMensTrash used the image as the punchline to a joke about the "Anti-Vaccination Movement":memes/cultures/anti-vaccination-movement/, mocking Anti-Vaccination's unsubstantiated claim that if a child is vaccinated, they could die (shown below, left). The post received more than 24,000 points (95% upvoted) and 100 comments in three days.

That day, the meme was posted in the /r/MemeEconomy subreddit,^[4] where it received more than 32,000 points (89% upvoted) and 1,800 comments in three days.

That day, Redditor^[5] 5h1bby posted a similar variation in the /r/PrequelMemes subreddit, joking about the scene from Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith in which the character Anakin Skywalker murders a group of children known as Younglings. The post received more than 50,000 points (92% upvoted) and 190 comments (shown below, center).

Two days later, on September 25th, Instagram ^[6] user @grapejuiceboys posted a version in which the Vault-Tec Rep is reacting to the caption "Person w/anime profile pic: I think- Normal people:" The post received more than 26,000 likes in 24 hours.

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