Baldur's Gate 3 Characters as Tumblr Posts

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Songbird (Tadpoled) @SongbirdN7 meredith @dietz_meredith Jul 5, 2023 i hate when energy drinks are marketed toward men. what could they possible need energy for? telling lies?? 6:08 PM Jan 23, 2024 283.1K Views :

foggy-ghosts Follow he has the looks of a depressed english professor and the soul of a w----.

gt-r oh you don't want me? Only because I look unhealthy and speak in riddles?

rosecrystal When someone asks what my hobbies are Betrayal Serving C---

c----holliday Of course you have white hair and trauma

lovehype i hate this place i want to go to build a bear

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About

Baldur's Gate 3 Characters as Tumblr Posts refers to a series of speech bubbling memes that assign social media posts to companions and other characters from Baldur's Gate 3 as if they are saying them. The format achieved popularity on X in mid-August 2023.

Origin

On August 11th, 2023, X^[1] user @Songbirdn7 posted an image of Baldur's Gate 3 character Lae'zel paired with an X Implies the Existence of Y joke by X user @EveBelleSong, formatted as a Speech Bubbling meme. The post (shown below) received over 670 reposts and 2,600 likes in two weeks.

Eve Belle @EveBelleSongs The term girlfriend implies the existence of a girlfoe. This is a service I am willing to provide.

Spread

In the following days, @SongbirdN7^[2]^[3] continued to post more memes in which companions and other characters from Baldur's Gate 3's were pained with viral social media posts, primarily from X and Tumblr (examples shown below, left and right).

Cardi B The Stripper @StripperPole ●+ Have i stabbed you? No? Then im being nice 2/8/16, 8:59 PM

bitchycode "I called you" Me: yeah I know, I watched my phone ring.

In the following days, other users on X joined in on the trend. For example, on August 14th and 17th, user @cannibalanders^[4]^[5] posted memes about characters Withers and Shadowheart that received over 940 reposts and 5,400 likes and 4,500 reposts and 27,100 likes in ten days and one week, respectively (shown below, left and right).

holytrinitybikini yes i'm a gatekeeper and a hater. I'm also God's favorite princess and the most interesting girl in the world

On August 20th, 2023, Shadowheart voice actress Aliona Baranova posted voiced a Speech Bubbling meme featuring the character. The video received over 8,600 reposts and 38,300 likes on X^[6] in four days (shown below).

oh wow, how could we say no with this many people asking so nicely? #Shadowheart #JenniferEnglish https://t.co/lcXeFDWZeZ pic.twitter.com/sPyWk8NSab

— Aliona Baranova (@alionabaranova1) August 20, 2023

On August 22nd, 2023, Lae'zel voice actress Devora Wilde posted a video in which she voice a meme with her character in it, earning over 2,200 reposts and 12,500 likes on X^[7] in one day.