I'll Now Proceed To Pleasure Myself With This Fish

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I'll Now Proceed To Pleasure Myself With This Fish refers to an image of the character Suzaku from the anime Code Geass holding a fish, incorrectly subtitled, "I'll now proceed to pleasure myself with this fish." The subtitled image was originally shared in late 2008 and went viral over the following years, inspiring further memes referencing it, including image macros, photoshops and redraws through the early 2020s. In the English dub, Suzaku simply says "gotcha!" upon catching the fish.

Origin

On March 2nd, 2007, episode 19 of Code Geass aired in Japan, airing in North America on September 7th, 2008. In the episode, Suzaku washes up on an island. In one scene he catches a fish with his hands, saying, "gotcha!" in the English dub.^[9] On November 27th, 2008, globalwhelming.com^[1] writer fupper posted a collection of screenshots showing bad anime fan subtitles to a blog post titled, "PICTURES: When ANIME Fansubs’ Translations goes WRONG!" One image shows Suzaku from Code Geass episode 19, titled "Island of the Gods,"^[2] holding a fish subtitled "I'll now proceed to pleasure myself with this fish" (shown below).

Spread

The image was shared numerous times over the following years. It was added to a post on onelargeprawn.com^[3] titled, "When Anime Fansubs Go Wrong" in October 2009. The image also inspired memes during the late 2010s. For example, on January 13th, 2017, GotFunnyPictures^[4] user Lucky Absol posted an image of a man holding a Vaporeon (originally found on 4chan) using the caption, gaining over 23,000 views in five years.

On June 1st, 2019, Twitter^[6] user @ironiclark posted a version of the meme replacing the fish with one from Granblue Fantasy, gaining over 800 likes and 690 retweets in three years (shown below, left). On July 26th, iFunny^[5] user IAmPride posted a meme showing a Vaporeon saying "I'll now pleasure myself with this human," gaining over 200 smiles in three years (shown below, right).

On December 18th, 2020, Twitter^[7] user @zer0_irl posted a version of the meme replacing the fish with a carp, gaining over 12,800 likes and 2,500 retweets in just over a year (shown below).

On August 16th, 2021, Twitter^[8] user @77_viivii posted a version of the meme replacing the fish with virtual YouTuber Finana, gaining over 4,400 likes and 680 retweets in nine months (shown below).

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