About

Welcome to Heaven is a four-panel comic by artist Safely Endangered in which a person is welcomed to heaven and is offered to enjoy a collection of video games. After the collection is revealed to consist entirely of FIFA 06, it is revealed that he, in fact, ended up in hell. The comic gained popularity as an exploitable in mid-January 2020, with memes usually making fun of generally disliked titles within various fandoms.

Origin

On January 15th, 2020, comic artist Safely Endangered posted a four-panel comic in which a person is welcomed to heaven and is offered to enjoy an extensive collection of video games (shown below). After the person realizes the collection consists entirely of FIFA 06, it is revealed that he, in fact, ended up in hell, with devil removing his mask and saying "haha, sike." The comic received over 8,300 reactions and 2,900 shares on Facebook,^[1] 123,800 likes on Instagram^[2] and
2,300 likes and 380 retweets on Twitter^[3] in two days.

On the same day, Redditor^[4] iminiki posted the comic to /r/gaming subreddit, where it received over 79,400 upvotes before being removed by moderators.

Spread

On January 15th, 2020, Redditor^[5] ruthlessronin24 posted the earliest known edit of the comic to /r/memes subreddit (shown below). The post received over 13,500 upvotes in two days.

In the following hours, multiple edits of the comic were posted in a number of subreddits, with edits also appearing on Facebook and other online platforms. For example, on the same day Redditor^[6] rex1604 posted a JoJo's Bizarre Adventure meme based on the comic which received over 6,600 upvotes in /r/ShitPostCursaders in two days (shown below, left). A same-day 177013 meme posted by Redditor^[7] RathalosHunter received over 2,600 upvotes in /r/animemes (shown below, right).

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