It's Like Finding a Gold Scar

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About

It's Like Finding a Gold Scar, also known as Finding a Gold Scar or the Gold Scar meme, refers to a series of image macros that liken finding a Gold Scar weapon in the video game Fortnite to other rare, blessed discoveries. The memes spread on TikTok in late 2024, predominantly in photo slideshows that used the song "All Time Low" by John Bellion, centering on the opening lyrics, "I was the knight in shining armor in your movie." Most of the captions followed a phrasal template that started with, "How it feels."

Origin

On September 28th, 2024, Instagram^[1] user @sportsculture shared a carousel post with image macros that each added a top caption to a Fortnite screencap of a player finding a Gold Scar. The first meme in the slideshow read, "How it feels watching your NFL team win on Sundays" (shown below). Over two months, the post received roughly 31,700 likes. It is currently the first known post to follow the It's Like Finding a Gold Scar format.

Spread

On October 1st, 2024, TikToker^[2] @mrwalkyoudownwiththe223 posted a photo with the song "All Time Low" by Jon Bellion.^[3] The meme added a caption to a Finding a Gold Scar image, reading, "How it feels to hit your Geek Bar while drinking a half and half Twisted Tea," gaining over 796,100 plays and 173,600 likes in a month (shown below).

In the following days, others on TikTok^[4] followed the format of the abovementioned slideshow.

On October 11th, TikToker^[5] @jackc_24 posted an iteration, using a different TikTok sound^[6] that was also "All Time Low" by Jon Bellion. The meme read, "How it feels to walk past a homeless person's cup of coins," gaining over 570,700 plays and 116,900 likes in a month (shown below).

The TikTok sound^[6] used in the abovementioned slideshow amassed predominant usage going forward. For instance, on November 9th, 2024, TikToker^[7] @crzxywrld posted an iteration with a caption reading, "How it felt going into English class and seeing a clueless sub," receiving over 4.9 million plays and 1.1 million likes in 12 days (shown below).

Also on November 9th, Instagram^[8] user @cumward reposted one of the TikTok memes, gaining over 41,000 likes in 12 days.

Video iterations of the meme also surfaced during the same timeframe. For instance, on November 9th, 2024, TikToker^[9] @adrielisshort posted a video about, "How it feels to find a friend that has the same amount of game skill as you, has the same humor as you and gets no huzz just like you," gaining over 648,100 plays and 120,200 likes in 12 days (shown below).

On November 17th, TikToker^[10] @sniff_maxwell shared a video in which he was poorly singing "All Time Low" by Jon Bellion while finding a Gold Scar in Fortnite. The video gained over 6.8 million plays and 1.4 million likes in four days (shown below). The video's format was similar to the content of TikToker YMC Gigglesaurus.

By November 21st, 2024, the trend's main TikTok sound^[6] had amassed over 29,700 posts.