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Canon vs. Fanon
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About
Canon vs. Fanon refers to a series of memes and sketches that depict popular tropes in fanon, juxtaposing canon and fanon versions of characters. The format achieved popularity on X / Twitter in mid-March 2024.
Origin
On March 10th, 2024, X[1] user @DaGamah_ wrote, "What's yalls favorite canon vs fanon depiction chat." The post (shown below) received over 2,200 reposts and quotes and 3,100 likes in four days.
![What’s yalls favorite canon vs fanon depiction chat e DaGamah @DaGamah What's yalls favorite canon vs fanon depiction chat 7:43 PM Mar 10, 2024 18.4M Views](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/774/551/e15.jpg)
In the following hours, users on X[2] / Twitter responded with both their favorite and disliked tropes in fanon, often drawing comparison memes juxtaposing canon versions of characters with their fanon versions. On March 10th, 2024, X user @FectoPrisma posted the earliest notable meme within the trope (shown below) garnering over 2,600 reposts and 19,000 likes in five days.
![Random NPC / Random NPC in the Hands of Their Biggest Fan + Random NPC Random NPC in the hands of their biggest fan +](https://a.kym-cdn.com/assets/blank-b3f96f160b75b1b49b426754ba188fe8.gif)
Spread
More users submitted their Canon vs. Fanon memes in mid-March 2024: on March 10th, 2024, X[3] user posted a drawing depicting the animorphism trope in fanon that received over 7,000 reposts and 50,000 likes in four days (shown below, left). Later that day, X[4] user @ElUnicoCosta posted a meme about Headcanons that gained over 3,700 reposts and 29,000 likes in four days (shown below, right).
![Animal Motifs / Visible Animal Features canon fanon animal motifs Visible arumal features](https://a.kym-cdn.com/assets/blank-b3f96f160b75b1b49b426754ba188fe8.gif)
![Unpleasant Personality Explained by Mental Illness CANON FANON character with an "unpleasant" personality, no explanation as to why headcanoning them with a mental illness and/or backstory that explains why they may act like that](https://a.kym-cdn.com/assets/blank-b3f96f160b75b1b49b426754ba188fe8.gif)
The trend continued on X / Twitter through mid-March 2024, with multiple submissions going viral.
Various Examples
![Enemies to Lovers Canon 2 characters that absolutely hate eachother and dont have a single interaction thats civil together Fanon ་་་](https://a.kym-cdn.com/assets/blank-b3f96f160b75b1b49b426754ba188fe8.gif)
![Rock Hard Abs / A Sexy Belly CANON FANON -rock hard super defined abs - a sexy belly"](https://a.kym-cdn.com/assets/blank-b3f96f160b75b1b49b426754ba188fe8.gif)
![Aware of Skibidi Toilet CANON FANON NOT AWARE OF SKIBIDI TOILET IS.](https://a.kym-cdn.com/assets/blank-b3f96f160b75b1b49b426754ba188fe8.gif)
![Brazilified Canon Fanon](https://a.kym-cdn.com/assets/blank-b3f96f160b75b1b49b426754ba188fe8.gif)
![An Irredeemable Monster CANON a literal child that did a lot of bad things but can still learn and grow FANON an irredeemable monster completely undeserving of love 1](https://a.kym-cdn.com/assets/blank-b3f96f160b75b1b49b426754ba188fe8.gif)
![Canon vs. Fanon vs. Ganon CANON FANON GANON DORF 166](https://a.kym-cdn.com/assets/blank-b3f96f160b75b1b49b426754ba188fe8.gif)
Top Comments
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Mar 14, 2024 at 02:04AM EDT
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