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Robert Pattinson Potion Seller refers to an image macro of actor Robert Pattinson wearing a Dior coat at a January 2019 fashion show. The image was reposted to Twitter by a fan in October 2019 and went viral due to the popular opinion that Pattinson resembled a "potion seller", referring to non-player merchant characters often found in role-playing video games.

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On January 18th, 2019, Actor Robert Pattinson attended Dior's Fall 2019 menswear show in Paris wearing a Dior coat.^[1] On October 12th, 2019, Twitter fan account @robertarchives^[2] posted pictures of Pattinson at the event (shown below). The images gained over 13,400 likes and 1,800 retweets in four days.

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On October 14th, 2019, Twitter user @BATHSmusic reposted the fan account tweet with the cation "absolute potion seller energy" (shown below, left). The tweet garnered over 202,900 likes and 34,400 retweets in two days. That same day, @jetgreguar replied "he looks like hes going to give me an amulet" which gained over 240 likes (shown below, right).

On October 14th, Twitter user @TheStealthSoup captioned the image with the potion seller line "my strongest potions would kill you traveler you can't handle my strongest potions you better go to a seller that sells weaker potions" (shown, below, left). The tweet accumulated over 550 likes in two days. That same day @gracezhuart posted fan art of Robert Pattison Potion Seller (shown below, right). The tweet garnered over 960 likes in two days.

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