Young Utena Watching TV
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About
Young Utena Watching TV is a series of memes using an image of Utena from Gushing Over Magical Girls as a toddler watching TV with a smile on her face. As a meme, an image or video is displayed overtop of the screenshot on a television, representing what Utena is watching. The scene comes from episode 7 of the series and premiered in February 2024, also becoming the subject of memes that month.
Origin
On February 14th, 2024, Gushing Over Magical Girls episode seven aired.[1] At the start of the episode, Utena is shown as a toddler watching the TV. That day, u/Satokibi posted a meme template to /r/AnimeTemplates[2] in whcih a blank TV is attached to the top of the screenshot. On February 15th, Facebook[3] page ChaosGiant Memes posted the first known meme using the template, garnering over 560 likes and 2,000 reactions in a week (shown below).
Spread
The template continued to spread throughout February 2024. On February 19th, 2024, X[4] user @ViCoSempai193 posted a version of the meme that gained over 680 likes in three days. On February 21st, X[5][6] user @GarbageDumpM81 posted two versions of the meme attaching a video to the TV, garnering over 670 likes and 900 likes respectively in a day. Later that day, X[7] user @ShitpostGate posted a similar version of the meme that gained over 1,600 likes in a day.
That same day, X[8] user @ShitpostGate posted a version of the meme attaching the intro to Call of Duty: Black Ops to the TV, garnering over 21,000 likes in a day (shown below).
Me 16 years old in 2010 playing Black Ops watching this banger mission intro. pic.twitter.com/vN4gbLs8Eu
— ShitpostGateway (@ShitpostGate) February 22, 2024
Various Examples
Template
Search Interest
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External References
[1] Anime Corner- Gushing Over Magical Girls Episode 7
[2] Reddit – AnimeTemplates
[3] Facebook – ChaosGiant Memes
[4] X – ViCoSempai193
[5] X – GarbageDumpM81
[6] X – GarbageDumpM81
[7] X – ShitpostGate
[8] X – shitpostgate
Top Comments
Matthew
Mar 01, 2024 at 07:37PM EST
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Feb 23, 2024 at 02:04AM EST in reply to