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Joker Raped in Folie à Deux refers to a scene which heavily implies that character Arthur Fleck / Joker is sexually assaulted by prison guards in the 2024 film Joker: Folie à Deux. The scene became a subject of controversy online as many users expressed dissatisfaction with it and the film as a whole, and was a popular subject of memes on X and 4chan's /tv/ board in early October 2024.

Origin

On October 4th, 2024, musical psychological thriller film Joker: Folie à Deux, a sequel to the 2019 critically acclaimed and commercially successful film Joker, premiered. One scene of the film heavily implies that the main character Arthur Fleck / Joker, portrayed by Joaquin Phoenix, is sexually assaulted by prison guards at Arkham. On the following day Arthur renounces his Joker persona during a closing argument in court.^[1]

On social media, the scene became a subject of viral discussions and memes as critics and users expressed their disappointment with the writing of the film and the direction it took.^[2][3]

On October 3rd, 2024, an anonymous 4chan user made one earliest found posts about the scene on the /tv/^[4] board, a What Did He Mean By This? post (shown below). On October 3rd, X^[5] user @hotepchungus posted a screenshot of the post which received over 9.8 million views, 2,400 reposts and 87,000 likes in four days.

Spread

On October 4th, 2023, an anonymous 4chan^[6] user posted an Abby Buttsex meme referencing the scene that saw viral spread on 4chan, X and other sites in the following days (shown below).

More posts and memes about the scene were shared by users on X and 4chan in early October 2024. For example, on October 4th, X^[7] user @hayasaka_aryan posted a video caption meme based on a The Angry Video Game Nerd clip that received over 450 reposts and 4,600 likes in three days (shown below).

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— Kaguya’s Top Gal (@hayasaka_aryan) October 4, 2024

On October 5th, 2024, an anonymous 4chan user started a /tv/^[8] thread in which users rewrote famous Joker quotes to reference the scene which accumulated over 330 replies in two days (shown below).

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