Think meme7/3/2023 ![]() On May 26th, Instagram meme page posted a video consisting of the "slurs against white people" tweet and a full-motion version of the scene with Omni-Man edited to hold up a phone, garnering over 159,000 likes five days (shown below). On May 24th, Twitter user replied with the subtitled screenshot of Omni-Man and Invincible's head labeled "N word," garnering over 400 likes in two weeks (shown below). On May 22nd, Twitter user posted, "updated list of slurs to use against white people" along with a series of images showing various slurs referring to white people, garnering over 2,000 likes and 1,900 retweets in two weeks. For example, on May 11th, Redditor u/HiMyNameIsLD posted an image macro referencing video games to /r/dankmemes, garnering over 6,200 upvotes in three weeks (shown below). ![]() The format continued to spread over the course of May 2021 in new image macros. This is the earliest known use of the scene in a meme. On May 1st, Redditor u/Merlo_24 posted an image macro to /r/BokuNoMetaAcademia referencing the anime series My Hero Academia using a screenshot of Omni-Man from the scene saying the line, garnering over 1,000 upvotes in a month (shown below). To illustrate how powerful they are in comparison to humans, Omni-Man points out a pair of fighter jets and says, "Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power," (shown below). Throughout the beginning of the episode, Omni-Man and Invincible, father and son, fight as Omni-Man tries to convince Invincible to help him conquer Earth. On April 29th, 2021, season 1 episode 8 of the Amazon Prime Original animated series Invincible premiered on the service.
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