The Best of "It Hurt Itself in Its Confusion!" Memes

About

"It Hurt Itself in Its Confusion!" is a battle message from Pokémon role-playing video game series, first used in Pokémon Red and Blue. Online, screenshots of the message have been circulated as a reaction image and an image macro in reference to self-destructive actions. Therefore, it makes for funny memes. The first known post in which it was used as a reaction image was created by Redditor tatlo17 in /r/funny subreddit on August 11th, 2015, and since then has been used on and off again throughout the years.

2019

In the following years the macro saw consistent use on Reddit. On January 30st, 2019, Redditor^[6] butterdwettoastbro used the macro in a popular post to /r/PewdiepieSubmissions subreddit which gained over 42,900 upvotes, causing an increase in the use of the format.

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