About

Mordecai Was a Simp refers to a series of posts, memes and videos arguing that the deuteragonist of Regular Show animated series Mordecai expressed behavior characteristic of simps; i.e. behaved sheepishly hung up on his object of desire Margaret to the point of acting subservient to her and putting her interests above his friendship with his best friend Rigby. The argument also saw Mordecai being compared with the main protagonist of Adventure Time Finn.

Origin

On October 5th, 2019, Twitter^[1] user @kingfadedz made the first known post making an argument that the Regular Show character Mordecai was a simp. The tweet received over 230 retweets and 750 likes in four months (shown below).

MORDECAI WAS THE ULTIMATE SIMP had me simping when I was a teen too And I didn’t even have a Girl Margaret did my man dirty😔 pic.twitter.com/cthQ6PoC48

— Kingfadedz ♠️👑 (@kingfadedz) October 5, 2019

Spread

Until mid-February 2020, the argument saw limited presense online, with several notable posts made during that period. For example, a November 24th, 2019, Instagram^[2] post by holyperc30 received over 4,600 views and 1,200 likes in three months (shown below). A January 6th, 2020, tweet^[3] by @SimeonV2 received over 190 likes in two months.

On February 9th, 2020, Twitter^[4] user @OOCRegularShow (Out Of Context Regular Show) posted a clip from episode "It's Time" of Regular Show in which the main protagonist Mordecai pushes deuteragonist Rigby to his death after the latter accuses him of flanking on him to spend for a chance to spend time with his object of desire, Margaret, who doesn't appear to be interested in him. On the same day, Twitter^[5] user @cjafterdark quoted the tweet, writing "he really killed this nigga over some pussy," with the tweet receiving over 16,800 retweets and 86,500 likes (shown below).

he really killed this nigga over some pussy https://t.co/4MK48tdvGG

— cj (@cjafterdark) February 10, 2020

The tweet sparked a widespread debate on Twiitter about whether Mordecai could be considered a simp, with many users posting videos in support of the argument, as well as memes about Mordecai behaving as a simp. For example, a meme posted by Twitter^[6] user @iMyles on February 9th, 2020, received over 960 retweets and 6,300 likes (shown below).

Mordecai everytime he saw Margaret with a new guy: pic.twitter.com/gKn5r1vLGF

— муℓєѕˢ⁷🌬 (@iMyIes) February 10, 2020

On February 12th, 2020, Twitter^[7] user @kasaisaiyajin tweeted "who was more of a simp, Mordecai or Finn" (main protagonist of Adventure Time), gaining over 1,600 retweets and 11,300 likes and sparking another round of discussion. A poll tweeted^[8] by @kasaisaiyajin on the same day showed that 86.8% out of over 72,200 voters agreed that Mordecai was a bigger simp (tweets shown below).

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