Jon Arbuckle Gaming / "Did You Really Think You Could Defeat Me, Wretched Fool?"

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Jon Arbuckle Gaming, also known as "Did You Really Think You Could Defeat Me, Wretched Fool?" is an exploitable meme taken from an episode of The Garfield Show. The meme uses an overlay of Jon Arbuckle playing at his computer as if he were a a streamer.

Origin

The exploitable scene comes from The Garfield Show episode titled "Virtualodeon", which first aired on April 20th, 2009, in France and on December 10th, 2009, in the United States.^[1] In the episode (shown below) Garfield and Odie are watching TV while Jon is playing games on his computer upstairs. They change the channel to one where Professor Bonkers introduces a means to where the viewer can experience what is happening on the TV set at the time, and changes the channel to the fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk, which causes a giant beanstalk to grow out of the screen of the TV set and causes the TV to tip over on its back. The beanstalk continues to grow and breaks through the ceiling past where Jon is playing his computer games while he says to his computer screen "Did you really think you can defeat me, wretched fool?". The episode was uploaded to YouTube on October 14th, 2016, where it received over 1 million views in over seven years.

Spread

Video edits using Jon Arbuckle gaming started in October of 2020. On October 6th, 2020, YouTube user NightlyFlare^[2] posted a GIF caption of the scene with the text "Matpat: I did it! I solved FNAF!" with Jon being labeled as Scott Cawthon. The video (shown below, left) received over 568,000 views in over three years. On October 8th, 2020, YouTube user kringefest^[3] posted an edit that overlayed the scene over gaming footage of Among Us. The video (shown below, right) received over 260,000 views in over three years.

On December 7th, 2021, YouTube user DinoFluff^[4] posted a video that shows Jon defeating the Ender Dragon in Minecraft. The video (shown below, left) received over 208,000 views in over two years. On March 4th, 2023, YouTube user BobanDlh^[5] posted a video in which Jon slams the door in Seek's face in a playthrough of Doors. The video (shown below, right) received over 94,000 views in over one year.