by There are many trends in the entertainment industry, but some universal content remains as popular as ever.
For example, “ratings”. Humans are creatures that want to compare themselves and others. Led by TV Asahi’s “Celebrity Rating Check,” ratings have remained popular on TV and social media. Meanwhile, in the past few days, X has been showing an animation of a thug raging on the subway and being overwhelmed by someone who arrived later, and the “rating meme” that expresses the ranking of various things has been gaining popularity.
In this article, we will introduce the origin of this meme and similar memes. With the Celebrity Rating Check at the forefront, ratings remain popular on television and social media. Meanwhile, in the past few days, a ” rating meme ” has been gaining popularity on X. It depicts a thug raging on the subway and being overpowered by someone who arrived later, expressing the ranking of various things.
The original story is a bilibili video posted in 2020 that went viral. The “rating meme” source is “Little Brother, Brother, Mixed Street, You’re Still Not Born” by Hoshi Yuno, a Chinese creator who creates anthropomorphized animal animations.
The original video was posted to Bilibili in August 2020 and has been viewed 22.04 million times. It was also posted to YouTube in 2023 and has been viewed 170,000 times. The video begins with a lion and a Doberman getting on the subway and getting involved with a rabbit girl. When the girl’s boyfriend shakes off the lion, the lion becomes enraged and goes on a rampage, causing a commotion inside the car.
The chicken, playing a game called “League of Legends: Wild Rift” on his smartphone, is defeated because of the commotion. The angry chicken scoffs at the lion and the Doberman. He snatches the cigarette and shows off his overwhelming power. In the “ranking memes,” the positions of the arrogant lions, the passengers who can only watch and do nothing, and the mighty chicken are all compared to professional baseball teams and regions to express the ranks of each.
The video begins with a lion and a Doberman fighting a girl rabbit. When the girl’s boyfriend shakes the lion off, the lion goes berserk and causes chaos in the car. The chicken, who was playing what appears to be League of Legends: Wild Rift on his smartphone, is defeated, likely due to the commotion.
The angry chicken easily defeats the lion and the Doberman, snatching their cigarettes and showing off its overwhelming strength. In the “ranking meme,” the arrogant lions, the passengers who can only watch and do nothing, and the mighty chicken are all placed in the position of professional baseball teams and regions to express the ranks of each.
Two thousand twenty-one more than 7 million “rating memes” will be born. Examples of Hoshi Arino’s animation used as a meme have existed since April 2021.
The video “APEX Rating” posted by An Channel, which posts videos of the game “Apex Legends,” has been viewed more than 7.71 million times. Ras, a member of the “Apex Legends” division of the e-Sports team Crazy Raccoon, assigned to play the role of the most muscular chicken, also left a comment on the video, which has attracted much attention.
In addition, unlike the “rating meme” that has been popular recently, this video depicts a reformed lion standing up against unjust development and the chicken (Ras) as a sequel.
This latter part is a quote from a scene from Hoshi Arino’s other works. Hoshi Arino has posted nearly 500 videos on YouTube alone. In other words, lions are depicted as quite comical characters, such as taking care of a new smartphone so much that they take care of it like a baby.
Many similar memes are popular overseas, too. There are several other types of this rating-style meme, including the currently popular one, a video by New Zealand influencer Torrell Tafa.
There are multiple versions of this video, in which a man pushing his way through the crowd suddenly hides or quickly gives way to a man who is more significant than him. This is often used overseas, and ASUKA, a wrestler active in the American WWE, has posted a rating video using this video.
