Dracula on a Boat

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Joe Russo @joerussotweets What if Dracula was on a boat? II GIF 10:00 PM - Aug 10, 2023 from Los Angeles, CA 65.8K Views

Marcus Finch @ocmd73 Dracula's been on a boat since the very beginning. Silent Movie GIFs @silentmoviegifs · Aug 12 Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922) Directed by F. W. Murnau II GIF 4:03 PM. Aug 12, 2023 · 65K Views IT

Jeff Zhang @strangeharbors Last Voyage of the Demeter: I was promised Boat Dracula and I got Boat Dracula. Y'all are just mean. 9:27 PM - Aug 11, 2023 · 80.5K Views .

zach silberberg supports the WGA @zachsilberberg ya best start believin' in boats, dracula. youre on one! 12:29 PM . Aug 11, 2023 288.1K Views

Lynda Carter @RealLyndaCarter I am prepared to fight Dracula on this boat. ALT 5:35 PM - Aug 10, 2023 538.1K Views

cleo @cleoofffilm "dracula's on a boat, folks, that's what they're saying, many people are saying that dracula's on a boat in fact. frankly if i was on that boat, dracula wouldn't be there long, folks, it's true" [crowd becomes unintelligible] SAVE AMERI **** SAVE AMERICA PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP TEXT ARIZONA TO 88022 MESA, ARIZONA 11:32 AM. Aug 10, 2023 · 74.5K Views : TRUMP

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About

Dracula on a Boat is a phrase that humorously describes the concept of the 2023 film The Last Voyage of the Demeter and is a commonly used nickname for the film. The phrase gained popularity as a humorous way of describing and referencing the film shortly before the film's release in August 2023, similarly to The Beach That Makes You Old meme in 2021.

Origin

On April 13th, 2023, an official trailer for the supernatural horror film The Last Voyage of the Demeter premiered on YouTube^[1] (shown below). The plot of the film, which is set in 1897, revolves around Dracula awakening aboard a cargo ship making a voyage from Transylvania to London and stalking its crew.

On August 1st, 2023, X^[2] user @realJaredGilman made an Are You Saying That There's a Chance meme that referenced the film (shown below). The post gained over 1,100 reposts and 18,400 likes and is the first notable meme to describe the film as "dracula on a boat."

Spread

On August 9th, 2023, X^[3] user @WillTheLandMan made a post in which they speculated that if the film had been marketed with the #DraculaBoat hashtag, it would have had grossed over a billion dollars during its opening weekend. The post (shown below, left) received over 300 reposts and 4,100 likes in five days. On August 10th, 2023, X^[4] user @jeremylovesyall posted a meme that garnered over 1,000 reposts and 10,500 likes in the same period (shown below, right).

The phrase "dracula on a boat," used both as a nickname for the film and a concise way to describe its synopsis, achieved massive popularity on X after the film premiered on August 11th, 2023. For example, on August 11th, 2023, X^[5] user @zachsilberberg posted a You Best Start Believing in Ghost Stories meme that received over 750 reposts and 8,700 likes in three days. On August 13th, 2023, Twitter user @kennykeil made a post referencing the 2003 film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, with the tweet garnering over 140 reposts and 1,300 likes in one day (shown below, right).