All These Games And You Decided to Play Me

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About

"All These Games But You Decide To Play Me" is the name of a snowclone in which a person makes a pun with the template "All these X and you choose to be Y." They generally tend to focus on sad relationship puns.

Origin

On November 4th, 2013, Twitter user @Kervgotcurves tweeted an image of himself near some video games with the caption "All these games but you decided to play me." While the original tweet was deleted, mentions of the post go back to that date.^[5]

Spread

Kervgotcurves' tweet inspired many more edits. On November 6th, Twitter account "@All_Of_These"^[6] was created and posted over 100 different examples of jokes using the snowclone in two days (examples shown below). It gained over 12,000 followers.

All These Flavors And You Choose To Be Salty

"All These Flavors and You Choose to Be Salty" is a popular catchphrase associated with the meme. It uses a stock photo image macro of an old lady licking ice cream. In exploitable versions, the character in the image is changed. One of the earliest known instances of the image was uploaded by Imgur user metalkid305 on July 18th, 2014.^[1] The image originated from a stock photo on ShutterStock titled "senior woman licking a red popsicle" which is owned by Michael C. Gray.^[2]

On August 21st, 2014, Imgur user WhoIsThis4chanGuy uploaded an uncaptioned version of the image macro (shown below, left)^[3]. On Septermber 20th, 2014, Imgur user DidYouTurnItOffAndOnAgain uploaded the image macro (shown below, right)^[4]. both images gained over 60.000 views with 16 points and 168.000 views with 44 points respectively.

Further Edits

The snowclone remained popular in the following years. On February 3rd, 2015, a compilation of edits was posted to 9GAG and gained over 8,900 points.^[7] On March 30th, 2016, Imgur user ChronicNerditis^[8] posted a compilation of edits that gained over 18,000 points (examples shown below).