The Masculine Urge to Slowly Bleed Out Here
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The Masculine Urge to Slowly Bleed Out Here refers to a series of The Masculine Urge memes in which people long after slowly succumbing to their injuries in a peaceful location which offers solitude, such as an empty snowy embankment. The memes reference and glamorize fates of various film and video game characters, most notably Officer K dying on snow-covered stairs in the 2017 film Blade Runner 2049.
Origin
The meme references a media trope of male protagonists succumbing to their injuries in solitude in a peaceful location. Officer K's lying dying on snow-covered steps in the 2017 film Blade Runner 2049 is one popular example (clip shown below); other notable examples include Cowboy Bebop's ambiguous fate in the 1998 series Cowboy Bebop in which he collapses on stairs, and the 2018 video game Detroit: Become Human, in which one possible end of a character plotline can be them dying on a snowy embankment.
On June 5th, 2022, Redditor alenchek posted a photograph of a snowy embankment in Istanbul to the /r/LiminalSpace[1] subreddit, where it received over 5,400 upvotes in two years.
On October 3rd, 2024, X[2] user @ancilladominii reposted the image. On October 6th, 2024, X user @deltaIV9250 captioned the photograph, "The masculine urge to slowly bleed out here", with their post (shown below) gaining over 54,000 reposts and 530,000 likes in two months.
Spread
On October 8th, 2024, Redditor Scaulbylausis reposted the captioned image in the /r/meirl[3] subreddit. The post garnered over 59,000 likes in two months.
On October 14th, 2024, X[4] user @litteralyme0 paired the caption with a video of a snowfall on an empty street. The post (shown below) received over 21,000 reposts and 223,000 likes in one month.
the masculine urge to slowly bleed out here https://t.co/qKGBQrBNZl
— autist (@litteralyme0) October 13, 2024
In the following month, the meme saw further spread online as caption memes based on the catchphrase were shared on X, Instagram and other platforms.
On November 19th, 2024, X[5] user @Cluffalo made an inquiry about the meme (shown below) that gained over 5,800 reposts and 169,000 likes in one day.
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