God Left

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About

God Left is an exploitable screencaptured image from a Grand Theft Auto V online match displaying a notification that a player named "God" has left the game. Within various meme communities online, the image is often used to express distaste toward cultural trends.

Origin

On April 11th, Redditor MuskratMike posted a screenshot from GTA V online showing a player named "God" had left the game (shown below). Within one month, the post received more than 666 points on /r/GrandTheftAuto^[5] (shown below).

On May 5th, 2017, Redditor ChandlerEB submitted an image of a pregnant man with the caption "The baby born to a man who was a woman who got pregnant by a woman who was a man," followed by a cropped version of the GTA V screenshot. Within five days, the post garnered upwards of 18,000 points (80% upvoted) and 840 comments on /r/dankmemes.^[3]

Spread

On May 6th, Redditor LAVA_UNIT submitted a post speculating that "'God left' memes are at an all time high!", along with a tweet about the NFL being older than the United States government (shown below). Within four days, the post gained over 14,100 points (83% upvoted) and 130 comments on /r/MemeEconomy.^[2]

On May 8th, Redditor SirJilliumz posted photographs of a teenager carrying a dakimakura anime pillow to the prom followed by the "God left" image" to /r/dankmemes^[4] (shown below, left). On May 9th, Redditor Huniwatnya submitted a screencapture of a news segment on "sexist air conditioning" followed by a photoshopped screenshot with the message "God went in exile for what he had created became more of a failure than he could have ever imagined" (shown below, right). Within 24 hours, the post gained over 3,000 points (97% upvoted) and 65 comments on /r/dankmemes.^[1]