About

I'm Going to Eat This Ice-Cream, With My Tactical Shovel is an image macro series based on a 2019 video by YouTuber Markiplier.

Origin

On August 7th, 2019, Markiplier published the video "Sour Patch Kids ICE CREAM?!" In the video, the YouTuber reviews both a tactical shovel and the Sour Patch Kids-flavored ice cream, eating the ice cream with the shovel. The post received more than 2 million views in less than six months (shown below).

That day, Tumblr ^[1] user lum1natrix posted a series of GIFs from the episode. Within six months, the post received more than 10,000 notes (shown below).

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On August 13th, 2019, iFunny ^[2] user DJDADDi posted an image macro with a screenshot of the video. They captioned the image as Markipliers response to the "==YouTubers: play Minecraft get millions of views."== The post received more than 90,000 reactions and 2,000 comments in less than six months (shown below, left).

On November 27th, Memedroid^[3] user Yeetyeyeet posted the meme as an expression of "Boys home alone." The post received more tahn 1,300 votes (90% upvoted) in less than one month (shown below, center).

On December 5th, Redditor ^[4] PratikBrahma101 shared a variation in which the image expresses how guys act after a breakup. The post received more than 17,000 (96% upvoted) and 125 comments in less than 24 hours (shown below, right).

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