About

Rey Triple Kill refers to a series of object labeling meme in which people mark a scene from Star Wars: The Last Jedi in which the character Rey (played by Daisy Ridley) blows up three enemy ships.

Origin

On December 17th, 2017, Star Wars: The Last Jedi was released in the United States.

About four months later, on March 16th, 2018, Redditor ^[1] Radofix posted a four-panel image of a sequence from the film of Rey blowing up three Tie Fighter war ships. The image, which was posted in the /r/MemeTemplatesOfficial subreddit, received more than 40 points (95% upvoted) in six months.

That day, Redditor^[5] Meikiepeik published an object-labeled version of the format. The post received more than 27,000 points (92% upvoted) and 230 comments in less than two years (shown below).

Spread

On March 17th, Redditor^[2] LeaMosqueraII posted an object-labeled version of the meme in which Rey is labeled "Meme review" and the Tie Fighters are labeled "Fresh memes." The post (shown below, left) received more than 250 points (96% upvoted) in six months.

A similar meme was posted three days later in the /r/PewdiepieSubmissions subreddit.^[3] The second variation (shown below, center) received more than 1,700 points (97% upvoted) and 25 comments in five months.

About six months later, on September 4th, a variation about gun control by Redditor^[4] rsjac. the post (shown below, right) received more than 33,000 points (83% upvoted) and 1,700 comments in 24 hours.

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