Me When Elon Musk Is in Critical Condition and Is Being Airlifted to the Hospital
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Me When Elon Musk Is in Critical Condition and Is Being Airlifted to the Hospital, also used as a phrasal template with Me When X Is in Critical Condition and Is Being Airlifted to the Hospital, refers to a series of GIF caption and video caption memes based on clips of people stopping and destroying helicopters and other aircraft (most commonly a clip of Chris Evans' portrayal of Captain America stopping a helicopter from taking off with his bare hands) to prevent a certain disliked individual (typically entrepreneur Elon Musk) from getting urgent medical help. An example of Things I Don't Like memes, the format has been in use since June 2020.
Origin
Prior to June 25th, 2020, an unknown Redditor posted a GIF caption meme based on a scene of Marvel character Captain America / Steve Rogers stopping a helicopter with his bare hands in the 2016 film Captain America: Civil War, pairing it with the caption, "Me when a trans person is being airlifted to the hospital and is in critical condition" (shown below; original post no longer available). On June 25th, 2020, iFunny[1] account awfulokbuddyretard reposted the GIF caption, which is its earliest found repost.
Spread
The GIF caption meme saw spread through reposts on iFunny[2] and other sites in the following years. For example, on January 22nd, 2023, Redditor Tommy_Arashikage reposted it in the /r/Chadposting[3] subreddit, where it gained over 660 upvotes prior to being removed.
On July 31st, 2024, X[4] / Twitter user @ExtremeBlitz__ recaptioned the clip, "Me when Elon Musk is in critical condition and is being airlifted to the hospital," setting it to a sped-up version of "Shadows" by Pastel Ghost. The post (shown below) received over 3.2 million views, 15,000 reposts and 187,000 likes in seven months.
— duck (@ExtremeBlitz__) July 31, 2024
The post saw viral spread online through reposts in subsequent months. For instance, on December 27th, 2024, X[5] user @thaboyjozu made a repost that received over 1.3 million views, 7,600 reposts and 100,000 likes in two months.
The post inspired more memes based on the format around the same timeframe. For example, on October 28th, 2024, Redditor TheRealBobYosh posted a meme based on the format that gained over 7,400 upvotes in the /r/whenthe[6] subreddit in four months (shown below).
On February 1st, 2025, X[7] user @KookyTucker posted a meme combining the caption about Elon Musk with a cutscene in which Yakuza character Kazuma Kiryu throws a grenade at a helicopter in Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth. The video (shown below) received over 8,200 reposts and 107,000 likes in four days.
— jucker (@KookyTucker) February 1, 2025
The post inspired a series of memes in which users paired the same caption with various GIFs of helicopters and other aircraft being destroyed in different video games.
Related Memes
Guy Pointing a Gun at Elon Musk
Guy Pointing a Gun at Elon Musk or Elon Musk's Assassination Photoshop refers to a viral photograph of Elon Musk arriving at Ed Sullivan Theater in New York photoshopped as a POV of a person pointing a revolver at Musk. The image has been used as a reply to Elon Musk's posts on X / Twitter since 2022 and inspired various caption memes and edits over the following years.
Various Examples
https://t.co/s47qTmxwWJ pic.twitter.com/4M8MtB2Efe
— Rhyme 🐩💜 (@SongForRhyme) February 3, 2025
Search Interest
External References
[1] iFunny – awfulokbuddyretard_2020
[2] iFunny – FunnyJoker
[3] Reddit – God's Weakest
[4] X – @ExtremeBlitz__
[5] X – @thaboyjozu
[6] Reddit – This post is ungameable
[7] X – @KookyTucker
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