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Were You Killed? Sadly Yes, But I Lived is a movie line taken from the Ice Age movie Ice-Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. In the scene, the character Buck is explaining that he had unfortunately died, but lived, much to the amazement of the other characters. In 2019, this scene started to be used as an Image Macro with the character Buck being used to depict products and other things that were killed but then came back.

Origin

The movie Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs was released on July 1st, 2009. In the scene, the group finds the character Buck, who decides to tell a story of his adventures. When interrupted and asked if he was killed, he says that he was, but then he lived. On April 24th, 2020, this scene was uploaded to YouTube by the channel Years^[1], where it would gain over 1 million views and 52,000 likes in four years (shown below).

The first instance of it being used as a meme was found to be on Reddit, uploaded on August 29th, 2019. On the r/memes Subreddit, the redditor u/TJTikka^[2] uploaded the scene in three individual frames, with Buck being replaced by the penguin from Club Penguin, as a reference to the Club Penguin Is Kill shutdown and it being resurrected later, earning over 60 upvotes in five years (shown below).

Spread

The scene continued to be used in memes over the following years, being used primarily when a character was actually killed off only to be shown to be alive later on. On October 22nd, 2020, the Subreddit r/Shitpostcrusaders, devoted to memes revolving around the show JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, had a variation of the meme uploaded by the Redditor r/TheRealLightBuzzYear^[3] in which Buck was replaced by the character Polnareff, earning over 1,600 upvotes in four years (shown below).

In 2020, fans of the Tokyo Olympics mourned the loss of the Olympic logo that was designed following the delaying of the games as part of the Covid-19 Pandemic. This however, was waylaid after the new logo for the 2021 Tokyo Olympics was shown, leading to the February 19th, 2021 upload by Redditor u/gunnergio14^[4] which received over 28,000 upvotes in three years (shown below).

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