Henry Cavill's Third Option

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Henry Cavill's Third Option or Henry Cavill's Interview refers to a series of memes in which Henry Cavill is offered to choose his preference between two given options, with Cavill naming a third option instead. Based on a December 2019 interview in which Cavill admitted his preference for PC over Xbox and PlayStation consoles, the format gained popularity on Reddit and Facebook in early January 2020.

Origin

On December 18th, 2019, NME^[1] YouTube channel posted an interview with actor Henry Cavill about the upcoming The Witcher Netflix series. In the interview, Cavill talked about playing The Witcher game series and being a fan of the franchise, and admitted to being an avid PC gamer.

- PlayStation or Xbox?
- PC!

On December 21st, 2019, Redditor^[2] unknown_human posted a two-panel image based on the Cavill's quote to /r/gaming, where it received over 69,500 upvotes before being removed (shown below, left). Also on December 21st, 2019, Redditor^[3] time-to-bounce posted a meme based on the post which received over 95,600 upvotes in the same period (shown below, center). A December 22nd, 2019, Math is Math meme by Redditor^[4] KazMiller received over 3,100 upvotes before it was removed (shown below, right).

On January 2nd, 2020, Redditor^[5] DeHosure posted the first known meme in which the question asked by the interviewer and the answer given by Cavill had been altered. The meme received over 1,700 upvotes in /r/kingdomcome in three weeks. On the same day, DeHosure posted similar memes to /r/DunderMifflin^[6] (6,000 upvotes), /r/seinfield^[7] (2,300 upvotes), /r/brooklynninenine^[8] (13,800 upvotes) and other subreddits (shown below, center left, center right and right).

Spread

The format did not see further spread until on January 8th, 2020, Orta Dünya community posted a meme based on the template to Facebook^[9] and Instagram^[10] (shown below), with the posts receiving over 520 reactions and 6,200 likes, respectively. On the same day, Facebook^[11] user Jimi Baum reposted the meme to Lord of the Rings Shireposting group, where it received over 2,800 reactions. A same-day repost to /r/witcher^[12] subreddit received over 35,500 upvotes.

Starting on January 8th, 2020, memes in which Henry Cavill provided a third option when asked about his preference between two things gained were posted by a number of Facebook groups, including posts in Lord of the Rings Shireposting^[13] and Dark Souls Sifposting (shown below, left and right).^[14] Also on January 8th, Redditor neotic_reaper posted the Orta Dünya's meme to /r/MemeTemplatesOfficial,^[15] later also posting a template.^[16]

Starting on January 9th, 2020, the format gained a notable presence on Reddit and Facebook.

Gamer Henry Cavill

Gamer Henry Cavill refers to a series of memes and jokes about actor Henry Cavill being an avid PC gamer. The memes followed Henry Cavill frequently talking about his love for PC gaming in interviews to NME, GQ and other outlets, with Cavill often being imagined as a part of The Glorious PC Gaming Master Race.