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You Just Got Vectored refers to an image of Vector from Despicable Me given bait-and-switch text similar to Beaned. After the image was posted with the 2017 rise of Vector memes, it grew popular two years later as a reaction image.

Origin

On March 8th, 2017, /r/me_irl^[1] user vpurtee98 posted an image of Vector made by an unknown author with text similar to the Beaned meme, ganing over 190 points (shown below).

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The image saw some light usage over the following two years. On March 17th, 2017, iFunny^[5] user _woke__2016 posted an example to the site (shown below, left). On September 17th, 2019, Redditor SebastianMalvaroza posted an example to /r/Brawlhalla,^[4] gaining over 1,200 points (shown below, right).

The image did not grow in prominence until December of 2019, when it began seeing use as a reaction image in /r/dankmemes. There, it was popularly paired with captions describing unfortunate or juvenile situations. For example, user LlamaCowMeow^[2] posted an example on December 9th, 2019, gaining over 8,600 points (shown below, left). The same day, benarnold1001^[3] posted an example that gained over 1,500 points (shown below, right). On December 12th, the memes were covered by StayHipp.^[6]

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