Gloria and Marnie Selfie

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Gloria and Marnie Selfie refers to a series of memes based on a fan art of Pokémon Sword and Shield characters Gloria and Marnie taking a selfie. Memes in which Marnie's expressions are humorously edited gained popularity in /r/animemes subreddit in December 2019.

Origin

On December 7th, 2019, Twitter^[1] user @hokke8787 posted a three-panel fanart of Pokémon Sword and Shield characters Gloria (also known as Scottish Pokémon Trainer) and Marnie (shown below). In the fan art, Marnie refuses to smile for the selfie, plays innocent and smiles when Gloria looks at her, and proceeds to lose her smile again once she turns away. The post received over 17,100 retweets and 78,000 likes in two weeks, with December 8th, 2019, repost in /r/anime_irl^[2] receiving over 13,800 upvotes.

On the same day, Twitter^[3] user @ladyraspberyl posted an edit which combined two panels of the fan art, with the post receiving over 300 likes in two weeks (shown below, left). A December 9th, It Was Me, Dio edit by Twitter^[4] user @Pixelga69018982 received over 150 likes in two weeks (shown below, center).

The format did not see significant spread until on December 11th, 2019, Redditor^[5] GenderEqualForLife posted a Smug Trap edit of the meme to /r/animemes, gaining over 23,100 upvotes in one week (shown below, right).

Spread

Several days after GenderEqualForLife's post, memes in which Marnie's expression is replaced gained popularity in /r/animemes subreddit. On December 15th, 2019, Redditor WeebSekai posted an Ahegao edit of the scene which received over 4,400 upvotes in three days (shown below, left).^[6] A December 17th "It Was Me, Dio": post by Redditor Samthevidg received over 20,700 upvotes in two days (shown below, right).^[7]

Following Samthevidg's post, multiple memes based on the fanart were posted in /r/animemes, including notable edits by Redditors mico9889,^[8] Dragoiod20^[9] and casinotrashcan.^[10]

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