About

Welcome to Hell is an exploitable based on the Hey Buddy comic "Hell." In the comic, the devil shows a new resident of Hell their own personal hell by showing them their dog waiting for their return. In the meme, however, people replace the dog waiting with other things that the memer finds torturous.

Origin

On December 13th, 2019, Hey Buddy comics published the comic "Hell" on Instagram. ^[1] Within one month, the post received more than 4,700 likes (shown below).

Spread

That day, Redditor ^[2] tweetsbyrocket shared the comic on the /r/comics subreddit, where it received more than 15,000 points (95% upvoted) and 195 comments in less than one month.

On December 14th, Redditor^[3] Lecsosszer3068 posted a variation of the meme in the /r/MemeTemplatesOfficial posted a version of the comic with the image of the dog and the devil's dialogue remove. The template received more than 6,300 points (98% upvoted) in less than one month (shown below, left).

Later that day, Redditor^[4] rshambo_29 posted a variation for the /r/trebuchetmemes, which received more than 7,200 points (99% upvoted) in less than one month (shown below, center).

On December 29th, iFunny ^[5] user history_memez posted a variation that features the burning of the Alexandria library. The post received more than 18,000 reactions and 675 comments in less than 24 hours (shown below, right).

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