It Was Made For Me! This Is My Hole!

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It Was Made For Me! This Is My Hole! refers to an exploitable meme and redraw template that uses a panel from Junji Ito's horror manga The Enigma of Amigara Fault. The panel shows a bespectacled man clamoring into a man-shaped hole in a cliffside as he says, "This is my hole! It was made for me!" The panel has been a popular redraw template since at least 2008.

Origin

Japanese manga artist Junji Ito's short story The Enigma of Amigara Fault was first published in his 2002 horror manga Gyo.^[1] The plot follows an earthquake that reveals several human-shaped holes on the side of a fault. As people travel to see the spectacle, they realize that the holes were specifically made for individual people. They then become hypnotized into going through their holes, emerging months later on the other side of the mountain, hideously deformed.

The original unedited panel for the meme template can be seen below.

The manga became popular on 4chan's /x/ (supernatural and paranormal) board for the hilarity of the various awkwardly translated quotes, such as:

"It's slowly coming this way!"
"Drr…Drr…Drr."
"This hole was made for me!"

Some early memes and redraws using this panel can be traced back to the year 2008, with a Spongebob parody of the panel being posted to Something Awful forums on March 9th, 2008 (seen below, left).^[2] A Pokémon parody of the panel was posted to Encyclopedia Dramatic on July 23rd, 2008.^[3]

Spread

Several memes based on the premise of the comic were uploaded to the Know Your Meme website in 2009, including two uploaded by user Greater Malison on December 9th, 2009.^[4]^[5] The posts gathered nearly 2,000 views each in 13 years (seen below).

The meme saw a resurgence in the late 2010s, with people redrawing the original panel with the specific quote, "It was made for me!" and "This is my hole!" On June 12th, 2018, Redditor^[6] PointlessAccount123 posted an edit using the manga panel to /r/animememes, gathering over 500 upvotes in over four years (seen below, left). On December 11th, 2018, user LetItMelo posted a Super Mario redraw to Newgrounds^[7] (seen below, right).