![Congratulations! You Are Being Rescued The droid K-2SO from the movie Rogue One](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/mobile/000/028/735/cover3.jpg)
Congratulations! You Are Being Rescued
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"Congratulations! You Are Being Rescued" refers to a memorable quote by character K-2SO from 2016 film Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Online, an image macro based on the scene has been used in memes about undesired help and malicious intentions disguised as providing assistance.
Origin
On December 16th, Star Wars prequel Rogue One: A Star Wars Story premiered in the United States.[1] In one scene of the movie, reprogrammed Imperial enforcer droid K-2SO, voiced by Alan Tudyk, grabs the main protagonist Jyn Erso, throws her onto the ground and congratulates her on being rescued.
Congratulations! You are being rescued. Please do not resist.
Spread
On January 3rd, 2017, Instagram[2] fan account reyisbaeok uploaded a three-panel screen capture of the scene, The post gained over 1,400 likes in two years (shown below). On July 15th, 2017, Instagram[3] user queen.of.jakku made a similar post with slightly altered caption which gained over 300 likes in 18 months.
![Congratulations! You are being rescued! Template Congratulations! You are being rescued! REYISBAEOK Please do not resist](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/465/231/445.jpg)
On July 23rd, a since-deleted Reddit[4] account posted the earliest available meme based on the scene to /r/anthologymemes subreddit. The post gained over 1,500 retweets in 18 months.
!['Murica Congratulations! You are being rescved REYISBAEOK The Middle East Please do not resist](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/465/260/fdc.png)
On November 5th, 2017, the image created by queen.of.jakku was featured in a collection of congratulations memes by The Daily Dot.[5]
In March 2018, the format gained popularity in /r/historymemes subreddit. On March 1st, 2018, Redditor[6] Whysong823 a version of the meme which received over 600 upvotes in six months (shown below, left). On March 5th, Redditor[7] skyslopes posted another meme based on the macro, gaining over 11,900 upvotes in the same period (shown below, right).
![Gotta save Africa from the Africans Europe Congratulations, you are being rescued Affica Europe Please do not resist](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/465/263/033.jpg)
![Poor Poland Congratulations! You are being liberated Please do not resist](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/465/264/7eb.jpg)
Throught the following months, the meme saw consistent use on Reddit. In 2019, several highly-upvoted versions of the meme with the middle panel cut out were posted to /r/memes[8] and /r/dankmemes[9] subreddit.
Various Examples
![Colonisation intensifies Congratulations! You are Not Europe Please do not resist](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/465/265/84d.png)
![You want some freedom? Any country: *adopts communism* USA: Congratulations, you are being rescued Please do not resist](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/465/273/859.jpg)
![End of WW2 in a nutshell Congratulations! You are beina rescued EASTERN AND CENTRAL EUROPE Please do not resist](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/465/277/668.jpg)
![You are being rescued Conaratulations! You are beinarescUed Humanity Please do not resist](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/465/268/631.jpg)
![NICE TO HAVE FREE HEALTH CARE Me: Breaks my leg USA Congratulations, you are being rescued Please pay 3000$](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/465/274/03e.jpg)
![me_irl PeTA Congratulations, you are beingt rescuea PETA Please do not resist](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/465/272/134.jpg)
Search Interest
External References
[1] IMDb – Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
[2] Instagram – reyisbaeok's Post
[3] Instagram – queen.of.jakku's Post
[5] The Daily Dot – The best congratulations memes to tell your friends they’re winners
[6] Reddit – Gotta save Africa from the Africans
[7] Reddit – Poor Poland
[8] Reddit – It do be like…
[9] Reddit – You want some freedom?
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