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This Dog Does 11,640 Damage per Second refers to a series of memes in which various animals are captioned with the phrasal template "This X Does 11,640 Damage per Second." Spawned by a viral Elden Ring video explaining a bug that results the enemy NPC Rotten Stray dealing huge damage per second, the caption was popularized on social media in late March 2022.

Origin

On March 29th, 2022, YouTuber^[1] Zullie the Witch posted a video about the 2022 video game Elden Ring in which they showed a bug involving the dog-like enemy Rotten Strays. Due to an oversight in hit registration, small Rotten Strays are able to deal up to 11,640 damage to the player in one second, killing them instantly. The video gained over 1.6 million views in one week (shown below).

Later on March 29th, 2022, Twitter^[2] user @toadmoney posted the thumbnail from the video on Twitter, writing, "one of the funniest fucking thumbnails i've ever seen." The tweet received over 3,400 retweets and 39,900 likes in one day (shown below).

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In the Twitter thread, users replied with the earliest memes based on the phrase, captioning images of dogs with it. For example, on March 30th, 2022, Twitter^[3] user @Snoof_VA replied with an image of a dog captioned with the phrase, with the tweet gaining over 30 retweets and 970 likes in six days (shown below, left). Later on the same day, Twitter^[4] user @Pisgoblin shared a Homophobic Dog image macro, with the tweet gaining 100 retweets and over 1,800 likes in six days (shown below, left).

Later on March 30th, the gaming website IGN made a tweet^[5] about the bug, which gained over 1,400 retweets and 22,300 likes in six days.

In late March and early April 2022, more image caption memes using the phrase were posted on social media, primarily on Twitter. For example, on March 31st, 2022, Twitter^[6] user @manfightdragon made an Elden Ring 'Dogs' joke that gained over 540 retweets and 7,600 likes in four days (shown below, left). On April 2nd, Twitter^[7] user @GarretLeaks captioned an image of Baby Nessie, a joke gun added to Apex Legends for April Fools' Day 2022, with the tweet (shown below, right) gaining over 63 retweets and 1,200 likes in two days.

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