| ▲ | vanderZwan 4 days ago | |
The author mentions 2019. That was the year that the "Demon Core Kun" videos were put on YouTube[0]. There's no mention of them in the article, which is a bit odd. I don't know if that was the first to "memeify" the demon core, but it certainly is one of the most popular memeifications, with each of the eight videos having somewhere between three to six million views. This also would explain the relatively large presence of anime memes in particular, since the "main" meme is a series of Japanese animations. EDIT: knowyourmeme.com actually has an article about the Demon Core and its popularity in Japan as a meme[1]. Apparently the latter predates the Demon Core Kun series by about a year at least. Still, the latter being on YT made it a lot more accessible to non-Japanese people which might explain the spike in meme popularity in 2019. [0] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjjzx95hXRLvbVeHuE8fT... | ||