![21KiB, 580x548, IMG_5330.jpg View Same Google iqdb SauceNAO Trace Have you ever been in a party? Cells. >Cells. Do you lock yourself inside your room every day? Cells. >Cells. Interlinked. >Interlinked. How do you imagine the smell feels like? Interlinked. >Interlinked. When you're in the gym, are you shitposting on an anonymous site? Cells. >Cells. Do you long for having your friends interlinked? Interlinked. >Interlinked. Do you dream about being interlinked... ? >Interlinked. What's it like to hold the hand of your mommy gf? Interlinked. >Interlinked. Anonymous Sat 24 Aug 2019 19:29:28 No.120024811 View Reply Original Report Quoted By: >>120024927 >>120025129 Did they teach you how to feel so lonely and horny? Interlinked. >Interlinked. Officer R-3-D-P-1-L-L, let's begin. Ready? >yes, sir. Within cells interlinked. >Within cells interlinked. Recite your baseline. >"And blood-black nothingness began to spin... A system of cells interlinked within cells interlinked within cells interlinked within one stem... And dreadfully distinct against the dark, a tall white fountain played." Cells. >Cells. We're done. "Based Anon"... you can pick up your digits. >Thank you, sir. Do you feel that there's a part of your soul that the internet took away? Interlinked. >Interlinked. Why don't you say that three times: Within cells interlinked. >Within cells interlinked. Within cells interlinked. Within cells interlinked. [8/2/7]](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/list/002/623/987/09c.jpg "Have you ever been in a party? Cells. >Cells.")
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About
Baseline Test, better known as Within Cells Interlinked, refers to two memorable dialogues from the 2017 film Blade Runner 2049 in which the protagonist K (portrayed by Ryan Gosling) undergoes the titular test that is meant to detect any emotional deviance. The nature of the test involves the recipient providing standard responses to the interviewer's statements. In the film, K has to quote a poem from Vladimir Nabokov's novel Pale Fire.
Origin
On October 6th, 2017, the neo-noir science fiction film Blade Runner 2049 premiered in the United States.[1] In two scenes of the film, the replicant K (Ryan Gosling) undergoes the Post-Traumatic Baseline Test, a standard procedure meant to detect emotional deviance in replicants (artificial humans). The test is an interview where an unseen interrogator asks the replicant emotionally provocative questions such as "Have you ever been in an institution?" and "What's it like to hold the hand of someone you love?" to which the replicant has to provide standardized answers: lines from a poem from Vladimir Nabokov's novel Pale Fire (scenes shown below).
- Officer K-D-six-dash-three-dot-seven, let's begin. Ready?
- Yes, sir.
- Recite your baseline.
- And blood-black nothingness began to spin… A system of cells interlinked within cells interlinked within cells interlinked within one stem… And dreadfully distinct against the dark, a tall white fountain played.
- Cells.
- Cells.
- Have you ever been in an institution? Cells.
- Cells.
- Do they keep you in a cell? Cells.
- Cells.
- When you're not performing your duties do they keep you in a little box? Cells.
- Cells.
- Interlinked.
- Interlinked.
- What's it like to hold the hand of someone you love? Interlinked.
- Interlinked.
- Did they teach you how to feel finger to finger? Interlinked.
- Interlinked.
- Do you long for having your heart interlinked? Interlinked.
- Interlinked.
- Do you dream about being interlinked?
- Interlinked.
- What's it like to hold your child in your arms? Interlinked.
- Interlinked.
- Do you feel that there's a part of you that's missing? Interlinked.
- Interlinked.
- Within cells interlinked.
- Within cells interlinked.
- Why don't you say that three times: Within cells interlinked.
- Within cells interlinked. Within cells interlinked. Within cells interlinked.
- We're done… Constant K, you can pick up your bonus.
- Thank you, sir.
- Cells.
- Cells.
- Have you ever been in an institution? Cells.
- Cells.
- When you're not performing your duties, do they keep you in a little box? Cells.
- Cells.
- Interlinked.
- Interlinked.
- What's it like to hold the hand of someone you love? Interlinked.
- Interlinked.
- Within cells interlinked.
- Within cells interlinked.
- Dreadfully.
- Dreadfully.
- What's it like to be filled with dread? Dreadfully.
- Dreadfully.
- Do you like being separated from other people? Distinct.
- Distinct.
- Dreadfully distinct.
- Dreadfully distinct.
- Dark.
- Dark.
- Within cells interlinked.
- Within cells interlinked.
- Within one stem.
- Within one stem.
- And dreadfully distinct.
- And dreadfully distinct.
- Against the dark.
- Against the dark.
- A tall white fountain played.
- A tall white fountain played.
- You're not even close to baseline.
In the days following the release, the movie achieved virality on 4chan's /tv/ board as K was recognized as a Literally Me character. On October 13th, 2017, an anonymous 4chan user posted the earliest found edit of the dialogue in a /tv/[2] thread (shown below, left). On October 16th, 2017, a user posted a You Look Lonely Wojak paired with a sad edit of the copypasta to /tv/.[3] A screenshot of the thread and the first reply, first shared on Reddit two weeks later, had since been widely circulated online (shown below, right).
Spread
The copypasta saw continued use on 4chan's /tv/ and other boards as users edited it in various ways, most often to convey personal struggles with finding romance and fitting in (examples[4][5] shown below).
![21KiB, 580x548, IMG_5330.jpg View Same Google iqdb SauceNAO Trace Have you ever been in a party? Cells. >Cells. Do you lock yourself inside your room every day? Cells. >Cells. Interlinked. >Interlinked. How do you imagine the smell feels like? Interlinked. >Interlinked. When you're in the gym, are you shitposting on an anonymous site? Cells. >Cells. Do you long for having your friends interlinked? Interlinked. >Interlinked. Do you dream about being interlinked... ? >Interlinked. What's it like to hold the hand of your mommy gf? Interlinked. >Interlinked. Anonymous Sat 24 Aug 2019 19:29:28 No.120024811 View Reply Original Report Quoted By: >>120024927 >>120025129 Did they teach you how to feel so lonely and horny? Interlinked. >Interlinked. Officer R-3-D-P-1-L-L, let's begin. Ready? >yes, sir. Within cells interlinked. >Within cells interlinked. Recite your baseline. >"And blood-black nothingness began to spin... A system of cells interlinked within cells interlinked within cells interlinked within one stem... And dreadfully distinct against the dark, a tall white fountain played." Cells. >Cells. We're done. "Based Anon"... you can pick up your digits. >Thank you, sir. Do you feel that there's a part of your soul that the internet took away? Interlinked. >Interlinked. Why don't you say that three times: Within cells interlinked. >Within cells interlinked. Within cells interlinked. Within cells interlinked. [8/2/7]](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/623/987/09c.jpg "Have you ever been in a party? Cells. >Cells.")
The dialogue has also been used as source material for memes and jokes on other sites. For example, on May 3rd, 2018, Twitter[6] user @MinModulation tweeted a pun, "With Incels, interlinked." The tweet gained over 20 retweets and 120 likes in five years (shown below, left). On February 25th, 2021, iFunny[7] user ABeautifulFlower posted a Chinese Man Yelling at a Kitten meme set to the dialogue, with the post garnering over 320 smiles on the app in two years (shown below, right).
In July 2023, the copypasta saw a surge in popularity as it was used to make jokes about the NPC Streaming trend.[8][9]
Various Examples
Search Interest
External References
[1] IMDb – Blade Runner 2049
[2] 4plebs – /tv/ Post #88900047
[3] 4plebs – /tv/ Thread #89023691
[4] 4plebs – /tv/ Post #89114883
[5] 4plebs – /tv/ Post #120024811
[6] Twitter – @MinModulation
[7] iFunny – ABeautifulFlower
[9] Twitter – @netcapgirl
![768KiB, 952x816, Screenshot_20230120-232722.png View Same Google iqdb SauceNAO Trace ↓ >Do they teach you the links between media and Jews >interlinked >Do you long for having your white heart interlinked. interlinked >Have you ever been called an incel before? Interlinked. >within cells interlinked with incels interlinked >Why don't you say that three times: Within cells interlinked. with incels interlinked with incels interlinked with incels interlinked Anonymous Fri 20 Jan 2023 17:29:26 No.179505770 View Reply Original Report Quoted By: >>179506366 >>179506503 [5/3/4] >Have you ever been on red board? Cells. Cells >After mastutabting do you feel that there's a part of you that's missing? Cells. Cells >Do you keep your feelings in a cell. Cells >Do you know how it feels to touch a women finger to finger? Interlinked interlinked](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/list/002/623/994/1c6.jpg ">Have you ever been on red board? Cells. Cells")
![242KiB, 1920x796, 1543252639541.jpg View Same Google iqdb SauceNAO Trace ↓ Incells >You told yourself you had your whole life ahead of you Interlinked Anonymous Thu 18 Nov 2021 19:48:15 No.159369705 View Reply Original Report >Nobody has ever wanted to have sex with you Incells >Chad gets HIV you get KHV Incells >You gained 50 pounds in high school every Chad called you Special K Incels >Now losing your virginity might have killed Deckard Incells >You have to live with that forever Interlinked >Or choose a greater purpose than sex Cells Interlinked Within Cells Interlinked [1/1/1] >You had one chance to get laid when you were 14 but freaked out and left the party >Went to Apocalyptic UCLA and studied PUA: then you were outed as a replicant Within >You're 31 and have a holographic GF as your first GF Incells >You call your 31 year old virginity Blade Runner Status Incells >People know that feel when no gf when you're around Incells Feels Interlinked >You honestly aren't autistic its just you're out of pills Within >You finally hired a prostitute to act as your waifu because f--- being a virgin at 40 but she ended up being part of some crazy resistence who captured your possible father Incells](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/list/002/623/989/846.jpg ">Nobody has ever wanted to have sex with you Incells >Chad gets HIV you get KHV Incells")
