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Persona 5 Battle Menu Parodies refers to an exploitable photoshop meme featuring the in-game battle menu from the role-playing video game Persona 5 superimposed over a variety of other base images.

Origin

On April 4th, 2017, Persona 5 was released worldwide, featuring a turn-based battle system in which player can perform different actions by selecting from several markers placed around each character (shown below).

On April 8th, 2017, YouTuber Euphemism for Magic^[2] uploaded a Just Give 'Em One of These parody videos featuring the Persona 5 battle user interface, which gained over 240,000 views and 380 comments over the next four days.

Spread

On the same day, Twitter user @broken_loose^[3] reposted YouTuber Euphemism for Magic's parody. On April 9th, 2017, Twitter user @Brento_Bento^[4] posted a photoshop featuring an image from the Super Mario Bros. cartoon with the Persona 5 menu (shown below, left). On April 11th, Tumblr user HANDSOMEZACK^[5] posted a photoshop featuring a child wielding a water pistol, which went on to receive over 9,000 notes in less than 24 hours (shown below, right).

That same day, Kotaku^[6] published an article titled "Persona 5 Menus Make Everything Better," highlighting several notable examples of the photoshop meme. Meanwhile, Mic^[7] published an article titled "The Funniest Battle Menu Parodies From Around the Net."

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