"Warning May Randomly Start Talking About Pears" Soyjak / Fanboy Cobson

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"Warning May Randomly Start Talking About Pears" Soyjak or Fanboy Cobson refers to a variant of the Cobson Soyjak in which Cobson is depicted wearing a given fandom's merchandise and making a soy face, also wearing a shirt that uses the phrasal template "Warning May Randomly Start Talking About X," with "X" being a reference to the fandom. The earliest known version of the meme, depicting a Soyjak fanboying over pears known as Pearjak, was posted to Reddit in early 2023 and became increasingly popularized over the following years as an exploitable meme format.

Origin

On March 29th, 2023, Redditor u/ironmanfan68 posted a Soyjak to /r/IncomprehensibleWojak^[1] depicting a rendition of Cobson making a soy face with his hands at the sides of his head. The Soyjak is wearing a pear-shaped hat, several pins and buttons expressing his love of pears and a shirt that reads, "Warning may randomly start talking about pears." The post gained over 285 upvotes in a year.

Spread

The meme gained viral spread over the following months, inspiring edits in which the Soyjak is depicted fanboying over different subjects.

On June 24th, 2023, iFunny^[2] user HideoKojima posted a version in which the Soyjak fanboys over the P-51 Mustang plane, garnering around 20 smiles in a year. On August 4th, a now-deleted Redditor posted a version of the meme to /r/Pikmin^[3] in which the character fanboys over Pikmin, garnering over 190 upvotes in a year.

On August 19th, X^[4] user @quebecween posted a version about prog rock that gained over 4,800 likes in a year. Purportedly, this version of the Soyjak was originally created by X^[5] user @dammdotgif and first posted by them on an unknown date.

On October 1st, X^[6] user @Specificsoyz posted a version of the meme that gained over 980 likes in 10 months. On October 19th, the same X^[7] user shared a version of the meme depicting the Soyjak as a fan of the album St. Anger by Metallica, garnering over 1,300 likes in roughly the same span of time.

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