Awaken, My Masters Meme Generator
1 November, 9am. The supermarket speakers switch on and Mariah Carey rises from the stone after eleven months of sleep.
You open the laptop for the first time since the holidays. 47 updates, all wanting to install at once, all wanting a restart, all at the same time.
Your old school group chat, silent since 2019, suddenly lights up because someone's getting married. Three people you'd forgotten existed have opinions about the venue.
Spring cleaning. You move the sofa. Behind it: two remotes, a sock, a Christmas card from 2021 and a spider who has clearly been running things.
Why it caught on: the Pillar Men's awakening in Battle Tendency got a booming choral theme by Yugo Kanno in the 2012 anime, and the track was remixed endlessly on YouTube as the sound of anything ancient and powerful waking up.