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For Legal Reasons, That's a Joke
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About
For Legal Reasons, That's a Joke is a quote said by PewDiePie in his video "Congratulations," a music video in which he backhandedly congratulates T-Series in passing him in The Great Subscriber War. The line became used as a reaction image paired with captions describing a potentially offensive or illegal scenario.
Origin
On March 31st, 2019, PewDiePie released "Congratulations," a video in which he raps his backhanded congratulations to T-Series for passing him in subscribers to become the most subscribed-to account on YouTube, gaining over 26 million views. At one point, he insinuated that T-Series may have ties with the mafia, before saying "For legal reasons, that's a joke. For serious, Indian mafia, please don't kill me, that's a joke" (shown below)
Spread
The day after the video was posted, "For legal reasons, that's a joke" began spreading on Reddit. One of the first examples was posted to /r/MemeEconomy,[1] where it gained over 12,000 points (shown below, left). A post in /r/evangelionmemes[2] gained over 110 points (shown below, right).
![Lolis When weaboos say they like to j------- to loli girls for legal reasons, aa joke.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/477/486/3c4.jpg)
![Evangelion That was a grown-up kiss. We ll do the rest when you get back. For legal reasons, tha s a joke](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/477/492/033.png)
Many of the examples were posted on /r/PewDiePieSubmissions. User -Nalyr posted a Lisa Simpson's Presentation joke about the phrase there that gained over 14,000 likes[3] (shown below, left). User Julian_PIEnaar[4] gained over 520 points with their post using the image (shown below, right).
![Lisa Simpsons Presentation For legal reasons thats a joke should be on the 100mil merch](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/477/501/152.jpg)
![PewDiePie vs. Media Pewdiepie: FOR LEGAL REASONS Media: What the f--- is that even supposed to mean?](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/477/504/49c.jpg)
Various Examples
![Shane Dawson Shane Dawson after saying he did his cat For legal reasons that's ajoke](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/477/505/f1a.jpg)
![Pasta_Person When you say how easy it is to cheat on a test, but your teacher overhears you For legal reasons that's ajoke](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/477/507/bae.jpg)
![Underage Girls when you say "you are hot" to a underage girl ㄩ FOR LEGAL REASONS, THAT'S A JOKE J](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/477/508/987.jpg)
![Kill Yourself When you accidentally say you want to kill yourself in front of all your coworkers For legal reasons, thas](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/477/511/840.jpg)
![Article 13 When you criticize Article 13 by making memes about it. For legal reasons, thats](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/477/515/605.jpg)
![FBI Guy LHACKEDIPEOPLEISIDEVICESAND MADE THEMISUBSCRIBETOPEWDIEPIE for legal reasons that's a joke](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/477/517/a5a.jpg)
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