About

Unexpected Sans refers to bait-and-switch clips of Undertale's major character Sans edited into the end of a video with the first few notes of the song "Megalovania" playing for humorous effect. Deviations later spawned with objects or instruments altered to contain Sans' glowing eye or appearance.

Origin

While "Megalovania" remixes and Sans photoshops have been around since the game's release, the nature of the "Unexpected Sans" videos began on Twitter with user @conkface's uploaded edit of a Family Guy clip on August 18th, 2018 that gained over 1,600 retweets and 4,500 likes (shown below).

Spread

The trend continued in the following months. Some popular Twitter examples of the meme include a post by @singtoconley which used the Unexpected Sans in an edit of "Sad Machine" by electronic artist Porter Robinson. The post gained over 450 retweets and 1,400 likes (shown below, top). Another post by @CursedVideos used the joke with an old cartoon, having skeleton walking in claiming to be Sans, gaining over 16,000 retweets and 41,000 likes (shown below, bottom).

On YouTube, the meme has seen rise with compilation videos titled "sans meme and were prominently spread by user GlitchB1tch. A video posted on October 7th compiling multiple takes on the meme gained over 334,000 views (shown below, left). Another posted the following day gained over 406,000 views (shown below, right)

Various Examples

Search Interest

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External References

^[1] Twitter – @conkface