"White Men Bad" Video Game Messages

About

"White Men Bad" Video Game Messages refers to a series of memes and edits in which messages disparaging white men are edited into various video games. The memes, which spread online in March 2024, parody a post made by YouTuber Boogie2988 in which he argued that "video games are not supposed to be lectures about why being a white man is bad."

Origin

On March 14th, 2024, YouTuber Boogie2988 tweeted a "hot take" on X^[1] / Twitter, arguing that video games are not supposed to be lectures "about why being a white man is bad." The post (shown below) garnered over 10,000 likes, 3,300 replies, 6,000 reposts and quotes in one week.

Starting on March 15th, users on X / Twitter quoted the post with parodies in which anti-white messages and messages disparaging white men were edited into video game screens. On that day, X^[2] user @eeesssjjj posted the earliest parody meme within the trend, a Soulslike Image Macro that garnered over 350 reposts and 5,300 likes in one week (shown below).

Spread

Later on March 15th, 2024, X^[3] user @spenceandsons posted a Pikmin meme that received over 4,300 reposts and 48,000 likes in one week (shown below, left). Also that day, X^[4] user @fracore34 posted an edited screenshot from Paper Mario: The Origami King that garnered over 930 reposts and 8,200 likes in the same period (shown below, right).

Several Cat Feeder Camera Cats versions of the meme were posted in the following days. For example, on March 15th, X^[5] user @realblueluffy posted a GIF caption meme that received over 4,700 reposts and 54,000 likes in one week (shown below, left).

The trend saw further development in mid-March 2024. For example, on March 20th, X^[6] user @NZMJerry posted an Osu! edit that accumulated over 7,500 reposts and 47,000 likes in one day (shown below).

https://t.co/IMrRBXUMRW pic.twitter.com/VSNKQWqxMp

— Jerry (@NZMJerry) March 20, 2024

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