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Officer Clegane
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Part of a series on Game of Thrones. [View Related Entries]
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Officer Clegane refers to an online nickname given to particularly muscular-looking and armed police officers. "Clegane" is a reference to the Game of Thrones character Gregor Clegane, aka "The Mountain", known for his massive size and extremely violent tendencies.
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Origin
On June 9th, 2017, Twitter user @DonutOperator[1] tweeted a picture of a particularly large and muscular police officer working at protests in Tulsa, Oklahoma, dubbing him "Officer Gregor Clegane," gaining over 300 retweets (shown below).
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Spread
On October 5th, 2017, the picture was posted to Game of Thrones meme subreddit /r/aSongofMemeandRage with a different caption, gaining over 970 points (shown below, left). The same picture appeared under the name "Officer Clegane" on May 7th, 2018 in /r/bossfight (shown below, right).
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On June 5th, the Twitter account @funnylibertarian gave the name to another police officer seen bending a riot baton (shown below, left). The picture appeared in /r/absoluteunits with a reference to the Officer Clegane meme and gained over 17,000 points (shown below, right). This led to the height of the meme's popularity.
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External References
[1] Twitter – donutoperator
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