Toddroll / You're Finally Awake

About

Toddroll, also known as You're Finally Awake and Skyrimroll, is a copypasta bait-and-switch meme similar to Everybody Walk the Dinosaur where the person posting will tell a story and at the end of their tale will lose consciousness in some way, and when their consciousness returns, they will be in the back of the cart in the beginning cutscene of the video game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, most often accompanied with the lines "Hey, you, you're finally awake. You were trying to cross the border, right?" and "Todd Howard, you've done it again."

Origin

While the origin of the meme is unclear, it began to spread around the announcement of Fallout 76, which happened on May 30th, 2018. The earliest known Toddroll post appeared on Imgur^[1] on June 4th, 2018. The post is a screenshot of a tale in the form of a greentext story about the poster buying Fallout 76 only to have the game reveal itself to be another rerelease of Skyrim.

Spread

Other early iterations of the meme joked about Fallout 76 being a secret Skyrim rerelease. For example, a screenshot of a Discord chat posted to Funnyjunk on July 25th made a similar joke, gaining over 537 points (shown below, left). Another popular variation posted about Elder Scrolls VI was posted to /r/SkyrimMemes, gaining over 340 points (shown below, right).

Eventually, the set ups to each punchline began to grow less related to video games. For example, a Greentext Story posted July 24th, 2018 and reposted to Reddit's /r/ElderScrolls the same day gained 30 points (shown below, left). Another Greentext Story, posted July 22nd and reposted to /r/greentext the same day, made the story about seeing the sequel to Spider-Man- Homecoming, gaining over 27,700 points in the subreddit (shown below, right). A subreddit was created for the posts, /r/toddrolls, gaining over 5,000 subscribers.^[2]

Related Memes

You're Finally Awake

You're Finally Awake is an image macro series featuring photographs of people and animals looking at the camera, captioned with messages written as if the reader suddenly regained consciousness and discovered that the recent years or even their entire life were a product of their imagination. The format inherits its snowclone caption from Skyrim's Toddroll meme, also sharing strong similarities with What If It All Was Just a Dream? format.

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