About

Buff Mokey Mouse, also known as Buff Mickey Mouse, refers to a series of comparison memes based on images of a parody character Mokey Mouse created by YouTuber Sr Pelo. In mid-October 2019, a comparison format based on the images of Mokey with his head bashed and him having gained muscular mass became popular on Reddit.

Origin

On April 24th, 2019, YouTuber Sr Pelo uploaded episode "424 – Asteroids" of his Mokey's Show animated series.^[1] In the episode, parody character Mokey Mouse (Mickey Mouse), is shown being hit in the head by the parody character Grooby (Goofy), which leaves his head bashed in. In another scene, the Mokey is shown having gained significant muscular mass after taking "asteroids." The episode received over five million views in six months.

On April 24th, 2019, Redditor Santapensa posted a JoJo's Bizarre Adventure meme based on two still images from the episode.^[2] The post received 28 upvotes in /r/Animemes subreddit in six months (shown below, left). The format did not see any spread until on September 17th, 2019, Redditor KebabLite posted a comparison meme based on the images of Mokey with his head bashed in and after having gained muscles to /r/memes subreddit, where it received over 26,000 upvotes in four weeks (shown below, right).^[3]

Spread

On September 30th, 2019, Redditor MrCalazans reposted KebabLite's meme to /r/funny subreddit, receiving over 12,800 upvotes.^[4] On the same day, Redditor syuyrw posted another meme based on the format to /r/memes^[5] and /r/PewdiepieSubmissions^[6] subreddits, gaining over 29,300 and 5,400 upvotes, respectively (shown below).

On October 13th, 2019, Redditor LordCookieCarma69 another meme based on the format to /r/me_irl subreddit,^[7] gaining 5,000 upvotes in two days. On October 14th, Redditor Xiphactnis posted a version with the Mematic watermark cropped to /r/dankmemes,^[8] receiving over 70,400 upvotes in 12 hours.

In the following hours, the format received significant spread on Reddit in /r/dankmemes, /r/memes and other subreddits.

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