Lunging for the Officer's Gun
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Type: Participatory Media,
Tags: intrusive thoughts, gun, pistol, police officer, lunge, reach, grab, cop, service weapon, lunging for officers gun meme, police gun meme, cops,
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About • Origin • Spread • Various Examples • Search Interest • External References • |
About
Lunging for the Officer's Gun refers to a series of memes about the intrusive thought of making a lunge for a police officer's service weapon, an incident that can possibly end up with the officer retaliating and killing the person instead. Spawned by a viral Snail in My Ear meme in late 2022, the meme achieved significant virality in March 2023.
Origin
On September 30th, 2022, Redditor f-as-in-frank posted a Snail in My Ear meme captioned, "Snail in my ear telling me to reach for the police officer's pistol" to the /r/shitposting[1] subreddit, where it gained over 790 upvotes in six months (seen below).
![Snail in My Ear Telling Me to Reach for the Police Officer's Pistol (listening to the snail) Snail in my ear- telling me to reach for the police officer's pistol](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/554/473/598.jpg)
Spread
In the following weeks, the image was widely circulated online through reposts.[2] For example, on October 4th, 2022, Twitter[2] user @PeetingDisorder tweeted a joke about lunging for an officer's gun, which gained over 2,100 retweets and 26,700 likes in five months (shown below, left). On October 6th, iFunny[3] user TheRedBaron posted a screenshot of the tweet, gaining over 12,200 smiles in the same period.
On December 19th, 2022, Twitter[4] user @sulkingtime tweeted a meme that garnered over 1,400 retweets and 13,800 likes in three months and was widely shared in the following weeks (shown below, right).
![The ABCs backwards? No problem officer peet @Peeting Disorder The ABCs backwards? No problem officer Z... uhhh X... *lunges for his gun* 8:57 PM . Oct 4, 2022](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/554/474/124.jpg)
![using my grabby shark to lunge for an officer’s service weapon huffy @sulkingtime using my grabby shark to lunge for an officer's service weapon 12:40 PM Dec 19, 2022 343.7K Views](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/554/478/fb3.jpg)
On February 12th, 2023, Twitter[5] user @rundizzy wrote, "has anyone else noticed the glowing aura around cops guns lately," with user @MrToDamnFunny replying[6] with an image of a police officer's weapon emanating a glowing aura (shown below, left). The tweets gained over 70 retweets and 890 likes and 220 retweets and 3,300 likes in one month, respectively.
On March 1st, iFunny[7] user Nimitz19 posted a Jamiroquai Grab meme paired with the joke, with the post being featured and accruing over 17,300 smiles in three weeks (shown below, right).
![Has Anyone Noticed the Glow DADO MOJADO AUTIDAL 201 ***** dizzy @rundizzy. 6h has anyone else noticed the glowing aura around cops guns lately](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/554/501/2e0.jpg)
The posts were followed by further popularization of the meme online, with several examples going viral on TikTok[8][9] in March 2023.
Various Examples
![Steal: Officer's Service Weapon AN E Steal Officer's Service Weapon TION Evelicious. If](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/554/505/f28.jpg)
![I Should Lunge for That Cop's Gun I should lunge for that cops gun](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/554/475/718.jpg)
![I Cannot Make This S--- Up The Forsaken Today at 8:59 PM I cannot make this s--- up I'm waiting in line at chipotle for food so I open ifunny to this: me sneaking up behind the unsuspecting officer trying to grab his service weapon And I turn around and there's 3 f------ cops behind me](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/554/498/90e.jpg)
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7204619703854058795
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7210842910936370478
Search Interest
External References
[1] Reddit – listening to the snail
[2] Reddit – listening to the snail
[3] iFunny – TheRedBaron
[4] Twitter – @sulkingtime
[6] Twitter – @MrToDamnFunny
[8] TikTok – @theautismbattalion
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Tags: intrusive thoughts, gun, pistol, police officer, lunge, reach, grab, cop, service weapon, lunging for officers gun meme, police gun meme, cops,
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