Gets Brainwashed of That Thing

On November 21, 2024, X / Twitter user @MessRedds posted a two-panel cartoon of a scientist-style figure who uncovers something life-saving, then becomes unnervingly consumed by it; the post drew tens of millions of views within weeks. Know Your Meme notes readers often tied the comic to Viktor's arc in Netflix's Arcane, but the punchline applies broadly to any character who starts noble and ends twisted by power. Quote tweets from @Sl1m_Skull and others turned it into a fill-in-the-blank game—"name one character who is not X"—spreading through November and December 2024 with fandom-specific captions.

Because the art is simple and the panels read left-to-right as setup then corruption, it works like a reaction template: label the discovery, label the downfall, optionally add a third beat in the replies. KYM also links a March 2025 parody comic, "Both Splitted Due Different Views," that riffs on the same meme family.

corruptiontrope.com can publish a tight "trope explainer" plus a panel labeler: users pick fandom-safe examples (coffee addiction, new hobby hyperfixation, patch-note rabbit holes) so the joke stays about relatable behavior rather than real-world tragedies.

discoverycorrupts.com suits a weekly bracket or voting page for the funniest non-mean captions, moderated to block harassment campaigns, with outbound links to KYM and the original artist post for attribution.

tropepanels.com works as a swipe file of the strongest remixes grouped by media type—games, anime, sports—each with suggested alt text for accessibility and embed guidance for Discord moderators who want reaction packs without random watermarks.