Geodude Is Real, and Strong, and He's My Friend

About

Geodude Is Real, and Strong, and He's My Friend is a quote from a joke tweet by Toothpaste for Dinner creator Drew misattributed to Barack Obama in which the president claims the Pokémon Geodude is real. After the tweet grew popular, it became a snowclone applied to other fictional characters.

Origin

On January 21st, 2013, @drewtoothpaste^[1] tweeted, ""Anime is real," Barack Obama said in his inauguration speech earlier. "Pokémon are real. Geodude is real, and strong, and he's my friend."" The tweet gained over 13,000 retweets and 19,000 likes (shown below).

Spread

After the tweet grew popular, it became a snowclone as others used it to describe other fictional characters, though none were as popular as the original tweet. For example, on April 23rd, 2013, Twitter user @weedguy420boner made the joke using "reverse racism," gaining 7 retweets and 28 likes (shown below, left). Twitter user @cal50 used the format with God on April 16th, 2014, gaining 3 retweets and 20 likes (shown below, right).

On July 19th, 2016, KC Green drew an image of Geodude, reversing the snowclone, gaining over 610 retweets and 1,500 likes (shown below, left). On March 25th, 2016, @ANN_Events made the joke with Hatsune Miku, gaining 18 retweets and 36 likes (shown below, right).

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