With This Blade
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About
With This Blade is an ASCII Art snowclone popular on Twitter in which people use ASCII Art to make a sword and write "With This Blade, I…", usually saying "I defend X."
Origin
On February 22nd, 2017, Twitter user @JeremyFizzy tweeted the first known example of the sword[1] (shown below).
Spread
Over the following years, the format gained popularity as users made various jokes with the sword. Some popular examples include a November 16th, 2017 tweet by @WhatTheHai[2] that gained 620 retweets and 3,400 likes (shown below, left). Another by @Muddin4Jesus[3] posted November 20th gained over 250 retweets and 600 likes (shown below, right).
The format surged in popularity in early 2019. On March 16th, 2019, writer Darcie Wilder made a joke that gained over 460 retweets and 4,000 likes (shown below, left). Another by @commonDsneyfan gained over 390 retweets and 1,900 likes (shown below, right). The surge in popularity was covered by Daily Dot.[3]
Various Examples
Search Interest
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External References
[1] Twitter – JeremyFizzy
[2] Twitter – @WhatTheHai
[3] Daily Dot – With this blade, I protect this meme
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