About

Mission Status: SICK refers to a webcomic by Tumblr user dat-soilder made in June of 2014 in response to another Tumblr user's post in which a man shoots a wasp nest with a sniper rifle from the moon, resulting in members of mission control celebrating as a screen reads "Mission Status: SICK." The comic became the subject of redraws over the following years, while the final panel became the subject of parodies and saw use as a reaction image, often post to news stories and videos that seem incredible.

Origin

On March 15th, 2014, Tumblr^[1] user officialunitedstates made a post reading, "I want to be the first person on the moon to shoot a sniper rifle at earth and hit a wasp nest. my whole life so far is leading up to that moment." The following day, Tumblr^[2] user dat-soldier, as a response, drew an astronaut getting out of a lander on the moon with a sniper rifle and shooting a wasp nest on earth. The final panel shows mission control with a screen in the background reading "Mission Status: SICK". Within ten years the post gained over 925K notes (shown below).

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The final panel of the comic became the subject of memes over the following years, while also seeing use as a reaction image attached to incredible or "sick" stories.

For example, on November 14th, 2021, X^[3] user @Drawloverlala posted a redraw of the panel referencing Mega Man, garnering over 8,100 likes in three years (shown below, left). On April 21st, 2023, Tumblr^[4] user slitherpunk posted a version of the meme in response to a SpaceX rocket exploding, garnering over 25,000 notes in a year (shown below, right).

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