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The Gamer Graveyard title screen depicted on an old PC monitor.

Gamer Graveyard

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The Gamer Graveyard refers to a website where internet users are able to "bury" their friends who quit playing video games. On the site, people can add gamer tags, usernames or any other item they think should be memorialized in the graveyard. The website was created in late November 2021 and memes about it appeared most notably on Reddit and Facebook shortly after.

History

The Gamer Graveyard website[1] was released on November 22nd, 2021, headed by the team behind Opera GX, a gaming-oriented version of the web browser Opera. Opera GX announced the website in a tweet[2] they posted on November 22nd (shown below), receiving 43 likes in one week.


O Opera GX O @operagxofficial Welcome to the #GamerGraveyard! The final resting place for all the poor souls who quit gaming for "more important stuff". Bury your friend here to let them know they've been missed online! Check out the Graveyard: gamergraveyard.gg Opera GX GAMER GRAYEYARD WE ALL HAVE THAT FRIEND WHO'S GONE AFK A BIT TOO LONG. CALL THEM OUT

Announcements of the website also appeared on Facebook. The verified Facebook page PC Gamer[3] posted about it on November 22nd as well and received 514 reactions over one week. Arabic Facebook circles also showed an early interest in the Gamer Graveyard. For instance, @TH3.professional[4] posted about it on November 23rd, 2021, and received roughly 1,000 reactions in one week.

Memes about the Gamer Graveyard appeared on Reddit before anywhere else, where Redditors began referencing the website within image macros. Redditor YeetVegetables posted the first known example to /r/memes [5] on November 23rd, 2021. The meme (shown below) made a reference to an abandoned Minecraft dog waiting for its owner to come home. It received roughly 7,700 upvotes over the course of one week.


Every abandoned Minecraft dog waiting for their owner to come back from the gamer graveyard

More Redditors posted memes about the Gamer Graveyard on November 23rd. Redditor Morchel03 posted the second-known meme to /r/memes.[6] The GIF (shown below) used a video of Metal Gear protagonist Snake saluting in a graveyard to demonstrate being in the Gamer Graveyard. It received roughly 5,300 upvotes in one week.


Pour one out for the boys

Morchel03's meme was also reposted on Facebook that same day, posted to the meme page Meme Supreme with a Side of Garlic Bread.[7] There, it received 134 reactions over one week.

Various Examples


me, after I accidentally threw a molotov on myself in CS:GO : PRESS "F» TO PAY RESPECTS! F ME 23. 11. 2021 DIDNT THINK THICE BEFORE BEING STUPID "I heard he's never been added to the Gamer Graveyard" NNN mfs be like Wasted NUT 1. 12. 2021 HHAT? I DON' T HAVE A GIRLFRIEND.
Gamer Graveyard

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External References

[1] Opera GX – Gamer Graveyard

[2] Twitter – @operagxofficial

[3] Facebook – PC Gamer

[4] Facebook – مدونة المحترف للمعلوميات

[5] Reddit – r/memes

[6] Reddit – r/memes

[7] Facebook – Meme Supreme with a Side of Garlic Bread

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smolbirb
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smolbirb

jokes aside, I always get sad when I hear stories of "that one person I played ____ with all the time then one day they disappeared and never logged back on". this sounds like a pretty decent way to pay tribute to those old friends that never got a proper goodbye…

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This comes in handy for me just because I met so many great people on the DayZ standalone in its early days (for those of you who didn't play it back then, you couldn't see the Steam accounts or even names of the people you played with. So unless you specifically said "Give me your Steam name" you would never see them again.) and literally watched most of them die unceremoniously in game and never saw them again. Rest in Peace Insert that One Guy who helped me learn the basics of DayZ that unfortunately died because of that stupid ladder glitch. You'll always be remembered.

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