Sand Undertale

About

Sand Undertale, or "Holy Fuck, it's Sans Undertale", is an anti-meme turned meme-esque trend referencing the character and independent meme 'Sans', from the video game Undertale, a turn-based RPG made by Toby Fox in 2016. The purpose of the meme goes over the intense fandom surrounding the character (and the lack of seriousness cohering to the original game of the fandom, such as several Alternate Universes and little to no involvement with the actual media, as well as canon defilement surrounding the game as a whole).

History

The Post

In some time estimated to be in the month of December, 2017, O.P. Lowernorfair posted the phrase "Oh fuck dude watch out! It's Sans Undertale!" comically on his tumblr. However, since conception, the recipient of the message, Relishboi, responded with the phrase "please don't post him please please i'm begging you" in all bold lettering. This seemingly added satirical heat and irony to the post. So, using the momentum of the post shortly thereafter, Lowernorfair responded with the most famous component of the post, a poorly edited image of Nagito Komaeda from Super Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair with several features edited in, as well as unironic similarities kept that were almost identical to that of Sans (Short stature (Edited in), Winter Coat (Unchanged), Missing Hair (Edited in), as well as very similar character personalities in their respective media). The Image also had very small unintelligible text made difficult to read due to spastic unedited white around it as well as Komaeda. He put a single caption in large bold under the image simply saying "OH GOD HE'S HERE."

Finally, a third individual enters the discussion and begins the seemingly unironic coddling of the Meme's nature. A user named TheLovelyTrixie pitches in with an equally confusingly analytical and watered down reaction of the following:

"WHAT? That’s not Sansy. That’s some person from like Attack on Titan or whatever. The image is so poorly edited, and you can tell it’s a JPEG because of the white around it. At least they got the hall right… where Sans and Frisk have the final showdown in the No Mercy run of Undertale."

The series caused quite a stir, and not necessarily a negative one. Though the O.P. Lowernorfair has supposedly deleted his tumblr and began re-directing to their main one when attempting to directly view the gold-star post, it still lived on through several reposts the following weeks, months and beyond yet ahead, even to date.

Music Videos and Crackshipping

Several ironic as well as unironic YouTube videos rose up in the following weeks. One of the earliest being "Sans Undertale Komaeda remix (warning: extremely cursed)" by fuck bees, which featured the Image accompanying the 'Sans; Stronger than You cover alongside several audio clips of Komaeda's Japanese VA's laughter, which was really the only difference from the main track that was noteworthy. This video amassed 15,724 views as of September 11th 2018.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB4oPO4nlN0

The most iconic of these came around at the later in the life-cycle of the anti-meme; In a similar vein to the previous video, another user 'only sadness remains' uploaded a video titled "MMD – Sans Undertale x Nagito Komaeda (fingers in his ass)" which featured the video of an MMD of Sans and Komaeda dancing on a flowerbed from Undertale (which he credited to be by Skeletortilla from Tumblr) and the audio of "Fingers in his Ass" by BotanicSage, which used Asgore's theme as well lyrics sung by BotanicSage about the embargo on memes using any lyrics or samples from any of Kanye West's music. The original song in question was taken down due to obviously using Kanye's samples as well as harassment of Kanye with very NSFW imagery, but it managed to pass by in the MMD Music Video. The video amassed a total of 160K views as of September 11th, 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F5azNTnaOI

The song most likely used BotanicSage's track due to it's relevancy to Undertale as well as comic NSFW appeal, little did most know that this would begin to the shipping of Komaeda and Sans, as a Crackship. The circumstances are very similar to the meme surrounding the Crackshipping (See Crackshipping: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cultures/shipping) of Shrek from the Dreamworks Megahit 'Shrek' as well as Shadow the Hedgehog from the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, where the two are pictured together in a very uniquely out of character romantic relationship between one another. Since the underhandedness and irrelevance of this Meme were at play in it's favor at the time, Cringeworthiness was the one biggest thing this meme had out of it's favor in the public, even closer along the lines to the Shadow X Shrek meme.

Drawing Similarities

As the meme went onward, it mainly was never really put in the forefront due to how much prerequisite information and context was required to understand the meme. So for the most part, the only ones who understood the meme were that of the Danganronpa and Undertale fandoms respectively, whilst still mingling with other fandoms had the occasion arisen (Such as Zero Escape or Homestuck, sister fandoms to Danganronpa and Undertale in that order.)

The major work at play here was with major characters that all pertained similar character traits to Undertale characters, keeping tradition of remembering similarities between Sans and Komaeda. So dominantly, the Danganronpa fandom was more active due to the assumptively sensitive nature of the Undertale fandom, keeping the themes around of overbearing fandom collapsing in on itself (due mainly to Sans' existance in the media and the care put into AU's and whatever else involves Sans).

Mainly, the fans of the Danganronpa fandom expressed their artisanship and appreciation of the Post and it's ironically enjoyable origin of the meme. Some however, legitamately took this meme to heart and dedicated AU's to the meme surrounding Danganronpa and Komaeda being Sans, and some wrote ironic confessions referencing it to remind others of it's existance (I.E. Confessions, Shitposts and memes along a similar vein of Sand Undertale, possibly attempting imitation.)

Images displaying such similarities are within the following links:

https://scontent-atl3-1.cdninstagram.com/vp/e1b1a49755b328df6abbcadf58849f04/5BFB0550/t51.2885-15/e35/29402312_463558014077639_2509228118909124608_n.jpg (Cosplayer, imitating the image almost exactly. Source: Instagram)

https://78.media.tumblr.com/e1a047946a54b74c80d18bb1dfc5b35a/tumblr_ol6mh9CjvN1vcct6qo1_500.png (Confession, recreating the image almost to a T with Danganronpa V3 Character Hoshi Ryoma rather than Komaeda)

Several Homage memes were also made, due to the omnipresent idea of random 'Cursed' characters as Sans, or other characters of choice.

https://i.imgur.com/cjrPAUh.jpg (Meme, picturing Komaeda as Lucky Luciano from You Know I had to Do It to 'Em, and Monika taking Komaedas place as 'Sand Undertale', for some reason wearing Timbs.)

Various Examples

https://i.imgur.com/S25JRto.png (Fanart, and suprisingly good too)

https://i.imgur.com/T3SzeJw.jpg (Presence of Komaeda is very present, and he is a figurehead for someone whom nobody, no matter how kind, can respect.)

https://i.imgur.com/avRd4vi.png (The Danganronpa/Undertale inspiration is present, featuring one character and a freakishly similar aesthetic and format to the original.)

https://i.imgur.com/VKDfUQU.png (Sans and Komaeda as Kanye and Little Pump in the "I Love it" music video, incredibly cursed)

External References

Original Post: http://ndiecity.tumblr.com/post/177209999053/thelovelytrixie-lowernorfair-relishboi

can anyone explain to me with that meme of sans x komaeda? : Undertale

"Komaeda holding Sand Undertale": http://komaedaholdingthings.tumblr.com/post/157175113485/komaeda-holding-sans-undertale