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Welcome To The Shadow Realm, Jimbo
Part of a series on The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. [View Related Entries]
About
Welcome To The Shadow Realm, Jimbo refers to a series of images which imagine Hugh Neutron from Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius as a villain from Yu-Gi-Oh! It is one of several Hugh Neutron memes, including Conspiracy Hugh and We All Make Mistakes In The Heat Of Passion, Jimbo.
Origin
On October 31st, 2017, Twitter user @sparkie237[1] posted a photoshop of Hugh Neutron in shadow with a Yu-Gi-Oh! deck, captioning the image, "Welcome to the shadow realm Jimbo…", gaining over 3,600 retweets and 7,900 likes (shown below).
Spread
The image began spreading in memes two years later, in October of 2019. That month, examples began being posted on Reddit, with examples coming from users such as SweetMoves123 (shown below, left).[2] On December 13th, Redditor Croletran used the image in a meme comparing Greek Gods, gaining over 4,600 points (shown below, right).
Around the same time, another Hugh Neutron / Yu-Gi-Oh! format began spreading, with the caption reading, "Look like you're going to the Shadow Realm, Jimbo." Examples include an October 24th, 2019 post by RoboticsNinja1676 in /r/memes[4] (shown below, left) and a January 18th, 2020 post by /r/ronin07[5] in the same subreddit (shown below, right).
Various Examples
Search Interest
External References
[1] Twitter – sparkie237
[2] Reddit – /r/dankmemes
