This Guy Got Drunk, Tattooed A Sh*tty Charmander On Himself And The Internet Rallied Around The Image

On April 15, u/yllwsnow2 posted an image on r/funny that changed the course of history.

He wrote: “My friend was drunk and on Xanax when he decided to tattoo a black face Charmander with no experience or artistic ability. The flame saves it.” You can view the original thread here.

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It’s a Charmander. Well, like it’s supposed to be a Charmander. They usually look like this.

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Internet-savvy Redditors, quickly determined that the image in question was supposed to emulate a Tim Burton Pokemon, which look like these.

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Check out that artist’s works here.

We didn’t know it at the time, but for some reason, people were drawn to the image.

Someone digitized the shitty Charmander. Their explanation? “I don’t know why.”

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And then someone vinylized the digitized version of the shitty Charmander. Their reasoning? “I don’t know why.”

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Then someone made a t-shirt of the vinylized copy of the digitized copy of the shitty Charmander, the digitized version of the shitty Charmander, and then the tattoo of the shitty charmander.

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The internet wasn’t done yet. Someone made a plush toy version of the shitty Charmander…

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An engraved wedding ring using the digitized version of the shitty Charmander….

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A necklace of the shitty Charmander….

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And finally, to chronicle the entire event that unfolded in a day, someone made a flowchart. Yes, a flowchart.

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Then made a flowchart of the flowchart.

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And here’s the man who started it all.

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Don’t ever change, internet. Don’t ever change.