You Can Only Save One From Fire

About

You Can Only Save One From Fire is an exploitable webcomic featuring a person rescuing one of two anthropomorphized ideas from a burning home.

Origin

On March 14th, 2018, the webcomic Roxy^[1] published an installment entitled "You Can Only Save One." In this three-panel comic, a person enters a burning house to find to humans with the words "sleep" and "video games" written on their blank faces, respectively. In the final panel, the person can be seen running from the house with the person representing video games.

That day, the comic was published on Facebook. ^[2] The post (shown below) received more than 630 reactions, 1,100 shares and 65 comments.

Spread

The following week, on March 21st, Instagram ^[3] user @plantillas4k posted the template for the comic. The post (shown below, left) received more than 5,000 likes in six days.

On March 22nd, the Facebook^[4] account EresTodoUnLoquillo posted a variation with the words "Estudiar" and "Compartir memes" on the figures. The post (shown below, center) received more than 6,900 likes, 700 comments and 6,000 shares in five days.

Several days later, on March 26th, Redditor ^[5] pokexchespin posted an object labeling variation. The post features the words "people who sort by new" on the main character and "literally any other memes" and "memes about people who sort by new." The post (shown below, right ) received more than 21,000 points (92% upvoted) and 100 comments in 24 hours.

The following day, Redditor^[6] Assassin Agent posted a variation of the meme with references to the Distracted Boyfriend series. The post (shown below) received more than 3,500 points (94% upvoted) and 30 comments.

Various Examples

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