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Raiden Punching Armstrong refers to a quick-time event from the 2013 video game Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance in which the protagonist Raiden rapidly punches the main villain Senator Steven Armstrong in the breadbasket to no effect. The scene, often combined from the song "It Has to Be This Way" (better known by its first lyric "Standing Here I Realize") from the game's soundtrack, has been used every bit source textile for image macros, video captions, GIF captions and remakes.

Origin

On February 19th, 2013, the hack-and-slash video game Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, a spin-off installment in the Metal Gear series, was released.^[1] The last boss fight of the game, a duel between the protagonist Raiden and the main villain Senator Armstrong, included a quick-time event in which Raidens chop-chop punches Armstrong in the stomach to nada outcome (scene shown below).

Prior to February 2021, the scene saw a minor presence in memes online. For example, on July 22nd, 2015, Pikabu user raf996 posted^[2] the GIF, captioning information technology, "when you're fighting your older brother." The post gained almost 590 upvotes on the site. On June 4th, 2018, Twitter^[three] user @OolongEarlGrey posted the GIF to Twitter, captioning it, "When you kickoff putting downward money on pupil loans in pocket-sized weekly payments." The mail service received 26 retweets and over 100 likes in three years.

On February 20th, 2021, iFunny^[4] user ElliotRogerisAllah posted a GIF caption meme based on the GIF, speeding it upward and captioning information technology, "Cyberbullies trying to bully me later on I plow off the computer." The postal service gained over lxxx smiles in one year (shown below).

Cyberbullies trying to bully me after I turn off the computer SENTOR Font

In the following weeks, an unknown user paired the GIF explanation with the final theme Mario and Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, with the video explanation going viral in early March on Discord.^[viii]

On March 12th, 2021, gimmick Twitter^[5] account @TheFunny_mp4 reposted a video caption meme based on ElliotRogerisAllah's post, with the GIF explanation now paired with the final theme Mario and Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story. The post gained over 2,300 retweets, 15,300 likes and 113,500 views in one year (shown beneath).

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— The Funny (@TheFunny_mp4) March 13, 2021

On March 14th, 2021, YouTuber^[six] Rad Dude uploaded another version of the video caption, at present paired with the song "It Has to Be This Way" (better known by its first lyric "Standing Hither I Realize") from the game'south soundtrack. The video received more than than 723,000 views in 10 months (shown below).

"It Has to Be This Fashion" / "Standing Here I Realize"

While the song "Continuing Hither I Realize," better known by its first lyric "Standing Here I Realize," does non announced during the quick fourth dimension result, it appears later on in the fight against Senator Armstrong. The vocal is heavily associated with the fight scene and with the Raiden Punching Armstrong meme (music audio shown below). The song was composed past Jamie Cristopherson & Logan Mader and features vocals past Jimmy Gnecco.^[7]

The vocal has been used as source material for memes at least since Apr 2014, primarily being used to back-trail diverse fighting scenes. For example, on April 10th, 2014, YouTuber^[ix] NotTimWakefield paired a fighting scene from Star Trek fighting scene with the song, with the video gaining over 189,600 views in eight years (shown beneath, left). On Jan 15th, 2015, YouTuber^[10] Iceberger posted a modded cutscene from Saints Row IV with Senator Armstrong edited in, with the video accumulating over one.3 million views in seven years (shown beneath, right).

Spread

Prior to 2021, the song has been used in more similar memes posted on YouTube. For example, on Oct 14th, 2018, YouTuber^[xi] The Memester uploaded a Thor: Ragnarok battle scene paired with the vocal, with video gaining over 103,000 views in three years (shown beneath, left). On June 6th, 2021, YouTuber^[12] ElMaxitos uploaded a Dark Souls edit that gained over 241,000 views in six months (shown below, right).

On May 18th, 2021, Instagram^[thirteen] user lynx.mf posted the earliest plant derivative GIF caption meme based on the GIF of Raiden punching Armstrong; the postal service (shown beneath), captioned "me trying to fight my boozer male parent to protect my siblings," gained over 2,000 views and 620 likes in eight months, with a aforementioned-day repost by Instagram^[fourteen] user bokudere gaining over 86,000 views and xx,100 likes in the aforementioned period.

On July 26th, 2021, YouTuber^[fifteen] Hemotoksin uploaded the looped clip of Raiden punching Armstrong, which gained over 1.one million views in 6 months.

Starting in late 2021, the 2 formats merged into a single trend every bit the GIF set to the song has been used both for video caption memes and for remakes. For example, on November 17th, 2021, Redditor YeetBomer23 posted a GIF caption meme to the /r/subnautica^[16] subreddit, where information technology gained over three,000 upvotes in two months. On Dec 18th, 2021, YouTube^[19] user Andra uploaded a Stick figure remake of the video which received more 185,000 views in i month (shown below, left). On January 7th, 2022, YouTube^[18] user Verdigus uploaded a video titled "Continuing Here I Realise but information technology'southward ROBLOX" which gained over 18,000 views in two weeks (shown below, right).

The tendency likewise spread to other social media, including Twitter and Facebook. For case, on January second, 2022, Twitter^[19] user @ARgaytec uploaded a Girls' Frontline version which received over 110 retweets and 330 likes in three weeks. A January quaternary, 2022, repost by Facebook^[20] page "Girls' Realine Raifuposting Echelon" gained over 430 reactions and 150 shares in the same period. On January 18th, 2022, Facebook^[21] user John Salsa uploaded a Team Fortress 2 version (created past Discord user cimex749) to the "Team Fortress 2" group. The video received over 1,100 reactions and 770 shares in ii days.

Additionally, the video has been used every bit source cloth for object-labeling memes. For example, on Jan second, 2022, Facebook^[22] user Luis Ramos uploaded the video with the characters labeled "Weakest Tomboy" and "Strongest Femboy" to "Metallic gear rising Nanoposting," where it gained over 660 reactions and 660 shares in three weeks (shown below, left).