You Get What You Fucking Deserve

Editor's Note: This entry contains spoilers for Joker; read at your own caution.

About

"You Get What You Fucking Deserve" is a memorable quote uttered by the character Joker in the 2019 DC Comics superhero suspense film Joker. Online, the quote has been used in a series of image macro about comeuppance.

Origin

On October 4th, 2019, Warner Bros. studio released Joker in the United States.^[1] In the film, the character Joker (portrayed by Joaquin Phoenix) appears on a late-night talk show, where, after having an argument with the host Murray Franklin (portrayed by Robert De Niro), he screams "You get what you fucking deserve" and shoots him in the head.

How about another joke, Murray? What do you get when you cross a mentally ill loner with a society that abandons him and treats him like trash?! I'll tell you what you get! You get what you fucking deserve!

On September 25th, 2019, iFunny^[2] user saw0920 uploaded the first known meme based on the caption (shown below). In the following weeks, the image was widely circulated on the app as a comment to various Joker related memes, including Joker Reads a Joke GIF captions.

Spread

On October 7th, Twitter^[7] user @AdvancedSuit made the first known post on the platform using a still image from the film as a reaction image, gaining over 280 retweets and 1,000 likes. In the following weeks, the image was circulated online as a reaction (shown below, left). On October 8th, 2019, iFunny^[8] user PragerCC posted a Barack Obama meme based on the catchphrase which received over 4,900 smiles (shown below, right).

Weeks later, on November 10th, Tumblr ^[5] captainpoe posted a GIF of the moment. Within four months, the post received more than 12,000 notes (shown below).

Two weeks later, on November 21st, Twitter user @FourScore64 posted an edited video of the scene, creating a mashup with the video game Duck Hunt. The post received more than 191,000 views, 25,000 likes and 6,600 retweets in less than four months (shown below).

On November 25th, iFunny^[3] user memes7331 shared a variation as the response to a couple deciding on dinner (shown below, left).

That week, on November 30th, Redditor ^[4] mynamejeff24 shared the image in response to the headline "Driver attempts to destroy giant snowman, not realizing it was built on a large tree trunk." The post received more than 7,400 points (94% upvoted) in less than four months (shown below, center).

On December 4th, Redditor^[6] Englishhedgehog13 posted a wholesome variation. The post received more than 33,000 points (98% upvoted) in less than three months (shown below, right).

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