This Scene Has a Separate Fan Base

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About

This Scene Has a Separate Fan Base is a phrase used to caption screenshots and scenes from movies and TV. The meme implies that these scenes are so popular that they have an autonomous legion of admirers. It grew in popularity among Hindi social media users to highlight Bollywood and other Hindi films.

Origin

On February 3rd, 2019, Facebook ^[1] user TrollSalmanKhanHaters shared the earliest known usage of the meme. The post received more than 500 reactions in less than two years (shown below).

Spread

Over the next week, the trend continued to grow. On Febraury 6th, Twitter ^[2] user @HaramiParindey shared a variation that received more than 275 likes in less than two years (shown below, left). Instagram^[3] user @tvfqtiyapa shared a variation on February 8th that received more than 77,000 likes in less than two years (shown below, right).

The trend continued in 2020. For example, on April 18th, Facebook^[4] user AVPJokes shared a version that received more than 17,000 reactions, 490 shares and 190 comments in less than two months (shown below, right).