About

Spartan Soldier Alarm Clock is an image macro and object labeling of a Spartan soldier waking up a child in a modern bedroom with a horn.

Origin

On September 18th, 2018, Ubisoft North America uploaded an advertisement for the video game Assassin's Creed Odyssey to "YouTube." The ad, which features a Spartan Soldier performing the functions of Amazon's Alexa digital assistant, features a moment where the soldier acts as the alarm clock for a child, blowing a large horn in the direction of the child. The video received more than 1.3 million views in three days (shown below).

Spread

That day, a screen capture of the moment was posted in the /r/hmmm subreddit by Redditor ^[1] RoboYoshi89. The post received more than 3,700 points (98% upvoted) and 50 comments in three days (shown below, left).

That day, the image was uploaded to 9GAG, where it received more than 7,800 points in three days.^[2]

On September 20th, Redditor FrancisOcean posted an object-labeled variation of the image in the /r/FrankOcean subreddit.^[3]

The following day, on September 21st, Redditor lakota1360 posted an anti-meme labeling the Spartan "very loud horn" and the child "child." The post received more than 8,800 points (95% upvoted) and 100 comments (shown below, right).^[4]

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