"Here's Your-" / Surprised Fast Food Worker

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"Here's Your-" or Surprised Fast Food Worker refers to a reaction image of a surprised fast-food worker handing out an order. In April 2020, the image was combined with images of people and characters, as if the worker is surprised to see them as a customer. In 2022, a mutated version of the format regained virality as Is That a Weed X, with the fast-food worker replaced with the soldier from the cover of Call of Duty: Black Ops.

Origin

On January 8th, 2013, YouTuber^[1] MagicofRahat posted a prank video titled "Drive Thru Invisible Driver Prank." In the video, YouTuber puts on a costume disguising him as a car seat and makes drive-thru orders at various restaurants, with workers handing out the order getting surprised when they don't see anyone driving the car. The video accumulated over 58.6 million views in nine years (shown below, left). The reaction image is based on a frame seen at the 1:35 mark (shown below, right).

Spread

Prior to April 2020, the frame saw minor use as a reaction image, primarily on Twitter.^[2] On March 31st, a meme format in which the reaction image was combined with photographs of K-pop idols started gaining popularity within the K-pop community on Twitter. Although the original post could not be discovered, on that day, Twitter^[3][4] users @13chnwar and @huangsparkle made two of the earliest memes based on the format, with the tweets gaining over 140 retweets and 535 likes and 4,700 retweets and 8,700 likes in two years (shown below, left and right).

In early April 2020, the format achieved massive popularity within the K-pop community, spreading to other fandoms on Twitter and other websites in the following days. For example, on April 1st, 2020, Twitter^[5] user @kthseoulove posted a meme that gained over 36,200 retweets and 105,200 likes (shown below, left). On April 3rd, 2020, Tumblr^[6] user yori-kageyama9 posted a Sonic the Hedgehog meme that gained over 570 likes and reblogs in two years (shown below, center). On April 4th, Twitter^[7] user @sergiyooooooooo posted a Shrek meme that accumulated over 27,700 retweets and 115,800 likes in two years (shown below, right).

In November 2020, Facebook user Kenny Degurechaff Art posted two four-panel memes based on the format, adding additional panels (smiling panel originally created in FaceApp by Twitter^[8] user @_Troyyxy). The images (shown below) received viral spread online through reposts; for example, a December 16th, 2020, repost^[9] by Instagram user memnime gained over 2,400 likes in one year.

In February 2022, the format regained popularity after on February 9th, 2022, a Cirno version in which the Surprised Fast Food Worker was replaced with the soldier from the Call of Duty: Black Ops cover went viral on iFunny and Twitter (authorship unconfirmed; shown below).

In the following weeks, the format mutated into the two-panel Is That a Weed X meme, with the image of Surprised Fast Food worker no longer part of the format.

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