You Should Kill Yourself... Now!

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About

You Should Kill Yourself… Now! refers to a viral photoshop of YouTuber and Street Fighter player Low Tier God channeling lightning paired with his quote which was directed at a purported stream sniper. The image macro gained viral popularity as a reaction and source material for memes and redraws on Twitter and iFunny in September 2021. In the following years, it also saw use as a copypasta known as the "Low Tier God Copypasta."

Origin

On numerous occasions during his streams,^[1] YouTuber and Street Fighter player Dalauan Low Tier God Sparrow told his stream snipers and opponents to kill themselves. One rant, said by Low Tier God during a Super Smash Bros. stream sometime before April 26th, 2020, gained particular recognition online (shown below).^[2]

You gonna stay on my dick until you die! You serve no purpose in life. Your purpose in life is being on my stream sucking on my dick daily! Your purpose is being in that chat blowing that dick daily! Your life is nothing! You serve zero purpose! You should kill yourself now! And give somebody else a piece of that oxygen and ozone layer, that's covered up so we can breathe inside this blue trapped bubble. Because what are you here for? To worship me? Kill yourself. I mean that, with a hundred percent. With a thousand percent.

Starting in April 2020, following Low Tier God's global ban from Capcom-related events following the player's history of offensive statements,^[3] humorous edits of the video were posted online, with users setting the clip to various music. For example, on April 26th, 2020, YouTube^[4] user Remy Dyte posted a version set to Sonic 3 and Knuckles soundtracks. The video gained over 74,600 views in one year. On May 4th, 2020, Twitter^[5] user @prowerrr_ posted a 15.ai meme in which SpongeBob narrated the rant, with the video gaining over 55,500 views, 1,400 retweets and 4,900 likes in one year (shown below).

The LTG clip but it’s Spongebob instead pic.twitter.com/DSF5sFh6kf

— Prower  (@prowerrr_) May 14, 2020

Before August 12th, 2021, an unknown user created an image macro in which a photoshopped photograph of Low Tier God channeling lightning was paired with his quote "You should kill yourself… Now!" The image (shown below) was presumably created by a member of one of the Discord servers dedicated to trolling Low Tier God and first posted there.

On August 12th, 2021, an anonymous 4chan^[6] user made the earliest found repost of the image online in a thread on /co/ board.

Spread

On August 25th, 2021, Twitter^[7] user @shoryufallouts posted the image in a dedicated thread of Low Tier God images, gaining 10 retweets and 21 likes in two months. In early September 2021, more reposts of the image were made by users on iFunny^[8] and Twitter.^[9]

On September 13th, 2021, Twitter^[10] user @DP0nWakeup posted the earliest known meme based on the image macro (shown below), with the post gaining nearly 300 retweets and 1,500 likes in one month.

Starting in mid-September 2021, the image achieved notable popularity both as a reaction and a source material for memes, including redraws. For example, on September 14th, Twitter^[11] user @singIetap quote tweet another tweet with the image, with the post gaining over 15 retweets and 220 likes in one month (shown below, left). On September 23rd, 2021, Twitter^[12] user @pynnion posted a wholesome recaptioned version of the macro, with the post gaining over 80 retweets and 460 likes in one month (shown below, center). On September 23rd, 2021, Twitter^[13] user @chara_undertale posted a Deltarune redraw of the image, with the post receiving 240 retweets and 1,100 likes in the same period (shown below, right).

Also in mid-September 2021, an unknown user posted a video in which the image was combined with "La Ronde des Lutins, Op. 25" by Antonino Bazzini, with the video also being used as a reaction.^[14][15] On September 28th, YouTube^[16] user 9t312b posted a trap remix based on the video which gained over 25,000 views in one month (shown below, left). More similar reaction videos were created in the following month; for example, on October 10th, YouTube^[17] user visco posted a 'Murica edit that gained over 11,800 views in two weeks (shown below, right).

The meme achieved its viral point in late October 2021, with multiple viral recaptions and other memes posted during that period.

Low Tier God Copypasta

After going viral online throughout 2021, Low-Tier God's speech then became a copypasta that was further spread across the internet. On December 11th, 2021, Redditor GlitchyVii posted the pasta to the /r/copypasta^[18] subreddit, where it received over 600 upvotes in roughly two years (seen below).

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