Ultimatum Dispatcher

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Ultimatum Dispatcher refers to an exploitable GIF from the Looney Tunes cartoon Duck Dodgers in the 24th 1/2 Century in which Daffy Duck fires a bullet towards Marvin the Martian that stops before hits him and unfurls a message. What the message says is changed in the variations.

Origin

The GIF comes from Looney Tunes cartoon Duck Dodgers in the 24th 1/2 Century, which was released July 25th, 1953.^[1] In the original clip, Daffy Duck pulls out a gun labeled "Ultimatum Dispatcher," which reaches Marvin the Martian and unspools to read a message demanding he surrender. Marvin fires back with an actual bullet (clip shown below).

Spread

A GIF of the scene was uploaded to Imgur on July 18th, 2015.^[2] One of the first variations of the scene was posted to GIPHY on July 2nd, 2016,^[3] and featured Dickbutt (shown below).

via GIPHY

More variations began appearing after a post of the original clip to /r/funny^[4] on February 12th, 2018 gained over 88,000 upvotes. After that post grew popular, variations on the template began spreading on Reddit. On the 13th, Redditor dank420memes1337^[5] uploaded a variation that read "RGB Useless," gaining over 13,000 upvotes (shown below).

Several examples were also posted to /r/dankmemes. The most popular post used a Your Mom Gay joke, gaining over 4,300 upvotes^[6] (shown below).