Cutting Food With a Sword

About

Cutting Food with a Sword refers to a photograph of French rapper Kaaris pretending to cut food with a replica of the Frostmourne runeblade from Blizzard Entertainment's Warcraft video game franchise. In 2019, the image gained popularity as an object-labeling meme, depicting various situations in which sword represents abudance or excess.

Origin

On June 20th, 2015, French rapper Kaaris posted an image of himself pretending to cut a slice of lasagna with a replica of Frostmourne runeblade from Warcraft universe to his Twitter account^[13]. The post gained more than 3,900 retweets and 1,200 likes in three years (shown below).

Spread

On the same day, Tumblr^[1] user ruleofthirds made a now-unavailable post containing the image. The post gained over 95,000 likes and reblogs in three years.

Between 2015 and 2018, the image saw limited use as a meme template, with several notable examples appearing on Twitter^[2], Instagram^[3] and Imgur^[4]. In some examples, popular World of Warcraft quote "Frostmourne hungers" was used as a punchline.^[5]

On December 22nd, 2018, Twitter^[6] user @srs_god used the image in a joke about binge-watching Game of Thrones TV series. The post received over 16,400 retweets in three weeks.

On January 2nd, 2019, Redditor^[7] ThatsAnoofFomMe posted an object-labeling meme using the image to /r/dankmemes subreddit. The post gained over 7,500 upvotes in 12 days. On the same day, ThatsAnoofFomMe^[8] posted the template to /r/MemeEconomy subreddit, where it gained over 1,200 upvotes in the same period.

Following the initial posts, in early January 2019 more versions of the meme were posted to /r/dankmemes^[9], /r/2007scape^[10], /r/memes^[11] and other subreddits and on Instagram^[12].

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