No More Bananas. This Ape Only Wants Powerade

About

No More Bananas. This Ape Only Wants Powerade refers to a Snapchat Discover story showing an ape or monkey getting blue Powerade poured into its mouth. The image was screenshotted and reposted to multiple platforms, becoming an exploitable format where meme creators replaced what was being poured, as well as the last word in the phrasal template. The original ape video was posted on TikTok in 2020 and is also related to the Get Me A Blue Powerade Bro meme trend.

Origin

On December 21st, 2020, TikToker^[1] landonscherr posted a video of himself pouring blue Powerade into his pet ape Limbani's mouth. Over the course of two years, the video received roughly 5.7 million plays and 577,600 likes (shown below).

Roughly a year and a half later, a Snapchat Discover episode was uploaded in April 2022 that led with a thumbnail showing Limbani the ape getting blue Powerade poured into his mouth, including text overlay reading, "No More Bananas. This Ape Only Wants Powerade" (shown below). The channel that created the Snap episode is currently unknown.

The thumbnail was screenshotted and reposted to multiple platforms starting on April 26th, 2022, becoming a recognizable image macro. The first reposter was Instagram^[2] page subproject69, which earned over 100 likes in a month and a half. A more notable repost was made by Instagram^[3] page owen_kung on April 26th, earning roughly 25,500 likes in the same amount of time.

Spread

Later in the day on April 26th, 2022, the Snap thumbnail was reposted to Reddit's Blursed Images, ^[4] where it received roughly 8,300 upvotes over the course of a month and a half. On April 27th, it was posted by the Facebook ^[5] page Strong-Ass Apes, receiving roughly 1,100 reactions in the same amount of time.

On April 27th, 2022, Instagram^[6] page italyctuals_images_only exploited the Snap thumbnail, replacing the word "Powerade" with "Bang Energy," as well as replacing the Powerade bottle with a Bang Energy can. Over the course of a month and a half, the meme received over 430 likes (shown below).

More iterations of the exploitable were created going into May 2022. For instance, on April 30th, the Instagram^[7] page howitfeelstochewfivegum referenced the Man-Made Horrors Beyond Your Comprehension meme in an iteration that earned roughly 3,300 likes in one month (shown below, left). On May 3rd, 2022, the official Instagram^[8] page of KFC España used the meme for a post that received roughly 52,800 likes in one month (shown below, right).

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