About

Zeus: Basically CEO of All Gods refers to a phrasal template captioning an image which compares several Greek gods' dominions. The format, which rose to popularity in December 2019 on Reddit, typically lists two gods and their titles, then names a third, which introduces a comedic image correlating with the god.

Origin

On December 11th, 2019, Redditor crumch-mumch posted an image of Jerry from Rick and Morty selling water with the caption, "Zeus: Basically CEO of All Gods / Hades: Guardian of the underworld / Poseidon:" to r/dankmemes^[1] (shown below). The post received over 28,600 points (95% upvoted) in two days.

Spread

On December 12th, 2019, many Redditors posting to r/memes and r/dankmemes began using a similar format. Redditor joreddd posted another image mocking the character of Poseidon to /r/memes^[2] and gained over 25,400 points (92% upvoted) in a day (shown below, left). Redditor DescX also posted to /r/memes^[3] using the format but mocks Dionysus (shown below, center). The post accumulated over 84,100 points (94% upvoted) in a day. Redditor GamerMo garnered over 30,800 points (89% upvoted) in a day for a post referencing to format to r/dankmemes.^[4]

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