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Spooky-Daggers’ Fallout Meme: Blazing a Trail from the Wasteland to the Web
Spooky-Daggers’ Fallout meme goes viral, sparking the delight of fans worldwide and capturing the attention of the studios behind both game and show.
The new Fallout television series has taken the nearly-three-decade-old fandom by storm, with critics praising it up and down for everything from its script to its costume design. But one Fallout fan in particular, an artist who goes by the online moniker “Spooky-Daggers” found the perfect way to express their appreciation for the series: an Internet meme.
Back in 2013, the artist KC Green created the now famous “This is fine” meme of a dog-person sitting in a burning room as part of a comic titled “On Fire” for his webcomic series Gunshow. That meme is now a staple of the Internet, and I suspect that Spooky-Daggers’ homage to it will succeed in an equally long lifespan.
I reached out to Spooky for this interview as soon as I encountered their meme, which has over 12,000 “notes” on Tumblr as of this writing (and has seen wide circulation across other social networks, like Mastodon, as well).
Despite being flooded by positive remarks about their work (including from the producers and game-studios…
