We're Here to Kill Chaos / Chaosposting

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About

We're Here to Kill Chaos is a line of dialogue spoken by Jack, the main character of Square Enix's upcoming game Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin. Following the premiere of the trailer at E3 2021, the character became mocked for his generic design and his frequent use of the word "Chaos," with a still image of Jack punching Chaos gaining popularity as an exploitable. The memes mocking the character's obsession with Chaos are known as Chaosposting.

History

On June 13th, 2021, the announcement trailer for the upcoming video game Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin, a spin-off of the Final Fantasy series, premiered^[1] at the 2021 Electronic Entertainment Expo. In the trailer, the character Jack is introduced, with most of his lines of dialogue referring to his intention to kill Chaos (trailer shown below).

I'm here to kill Chaos, that's my mission. […]
Looks like Chaos has been waiting for us. […]
I only know one thing: I want to kill Chaos. I need to. It's not a hope or a dream, it's like a hunger, a thirst. […]
This is a shrine of Chaos, he's here. We just have to hunt him down. […] Chaos! […] We're here to kill Chaos!

Spread

Several minutes after the premiere of the trailer, an anonymous 4chan^[2] user created a thread titled CHAOS on the /v/ board. The thread reached the reply limit with over 640 replies within 14 minutes, with users mocking Jack's sole revealed characteristic of being obsessed with killing Chaos (thread and replies shown below).

In the same thread, an anonymous 4chan^[3] user first referred to the budding trend as "chaosposting" (shown below).

On June 13th and 14th, multiple Chaosposting threads were created on the /v/ board of 4chan,^[4]^[5] with users posting memes about Jack and his obsession (examples shown below, left and center). Starting on June 13th, users on Twitter also posted Chaosposting memes. For example, a tweet^[6] by @UltimaShadowX received over 900 retweets and 4,300 likes in one day (shown below, right).

On YouTube, several Chaosposting videos were posted. For example, on June 13th, YouTube^[7] user GKP posted a dubbed meme that received over 5,100 views in one day (shown below).

Exploitable

On June 14th, 2021, an anonymous 4chan^[8] user posted an exploitable template based on a still image of Jack winding up a punch for Chaos. On that day, multiple 4chan users posted memes based on the exploitable on /v/ board (examples shown below).