Botted the Likes Award

About

Botted the Likes Award is a catchphrase and Wojak meme used to call out social media users, mostly on X / Twitter, for allegedly botting the likes on their post. As a Wojak, the meme is used as a reaction image and is depicted as a blue variant of Cobson with a Zoomer perm and ribbon on his chest reading, "bottled the likes award", a version of the Soyjak Award meme. The Wojak was first used online as early as April 2024 and continued to spread over the following months, with the catchphrase on its own becoming more popular than the Wojak.

Origin

On April 3rd, 2024, X^[1] user @allowableman2 posted a blue Cobson Wojak wearing a ribbon reading "bottled the likes award" in response to another X^[2] post with over 37,000 likes calling the protagonist of Stellar Blade "gooner bait," garnering around 22 likes in nine months. This is the earliest known use of the meme.

Spread

The Wojak began to spread over the following months, with "botted the likes award" also spreading on its own as a catchphrase. On June 18th, 2024, X^[3] user @allowableman2 posted a variant of the meme showing the blue Wojak surrounded by bots, garnering over 250 likes in seven months.

On June 28th, X^[4] user @KeareShinei posted the Wojak in response to a post that they believe was botted, garnering over 330 likes in the same span of time.

On October 1st, X^[5] user @ihatewokeness posted a comic about botting likes, captioning it, "botted likes award or something like that," garnering over 3,200 likes in three months. On December 8th, X^[6] user @JadeAtrophis posted "botted the likes award" along with a meme about dark humor, garnering over 1,200 likes in a month.

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