About

Some Say Charmander Is the Best refers to an exploitable template which reads "Some say Charmander is the best. Some say it's Squirtle. But deep down, we all know…" followed by an unrelated fact underneath the Pokémon Bulbasaur.

Origin

On November 4th, 2018, Redditor alecdude16 made the original post on /r/dankmemes,^[2] ending with the punchline "Israel is not a legitimate state," gaining over 780 points before the thread was locked by moderators.

Spread

The format began seeing use over the following month. The same day as the original post, Redditor theminer325^[1] made a post to /r/teenagers using the format, gaining 4,000 points (shown below, left). User mostartichoke posted a My Name Jeff exploitable to /r/dankmemes on November 6th (shown below, right).

Over the next several month, a variation of the format using sprites from the Pokémon video games rather than the anime art grew popular. Some popular posts with this format include a December 6th, 2018 post to /r/memes that gained over 1,000 upvotes (shown below, left). On March 6th, 2019, Instagram user manifestdestinyy^[3] posted a variation that gained over 1,700 likes (shown below, right).

Others have used different characters in the template. For example, user FlixNinja posted about the 2000s Spider-Man films, gaining over 3,500 points (shown below, left). User RobloxPornAccount made a variation with Marvel that gained over 1,900 points (shown below, right).

Various Examples

Search Interest

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