About

What's the Matter, Little Fella? refers to a series of two-panel exploitables featuring the video game character Cuphead. In the meme, Cuphead, or character standing in for Cuphead, asks "What's the matter, little fella?" before answering the question with something antagonistic, similar to What's Wrong, Big Boy?

Origin

On October 4th, 2017, Facebook ^[1] user Rammari posted a two-panel image of Cuphead. In the first panel, Cuphead says, "What's the matter, little fella?" Underneath, in the second panel, Cuphead says, "Bad at video games?" The post (shown below) received more than 2,000 shares, 440 comments and 10,300 shares in two weeks.

Spread

That day, the image was shared on the 4chan /v/ board^[2] by an anonnymous user and Twitter, ^[3] where user @GamingAndPandas received more than 6,300 retweets 17,000 likes in two weeks.

The following day, Redditor ^[4] KaiserRolled posted a variation in the /r/NLSSCircleJerk subreddit. This version features a man's face superimposed over Cuphead's and the word "acquiescing" over "video games. The post (shown below, left) recieved more than 219 points (99% upvoted) in two weeks.

Three days later, on October 8th, Twitter^[5] user @Shadbase posted another version, where the bottom question reads, "Never had your cock sucked by a cup before?" The post (shown below, right) received more than 1,100 retweets and 6,200 likes in one week.

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