Starlight Mogging

About

Starlight Mogging refers to memes and jokes about Starlight from the show The Boys and Erin Moriarty, the actress who plays her. During the fourth season of the show in June and July 2024, fans began sharing memes about Moriarty's angular features, suspected to be a result of cosmetic surgery. Starlight Mogging memes typically begin with Butcher saying "Oi oi bruv Homelander done killed my wife" followed by an image of Starlight drawn with exaggerated, GigaChad-like features.

Origin

On June 25th, 2024, TikToker^[1] @mediocre_art_world posted the earliest known meme with a drawing of Starlight's face exaggerated to give her Gigachad proportions. The image was captioned, "Homelander killed me wife and took me son!" and gathered over 3 million plays and 450,000 likes in two weeks (seen below).

Spread

Other TikTokers posted similar memes in June 2024, including TikToker^[2] @artbybamuel, whose June 29th, 2024 post featured art showing Starlight mewing gathered over 7 million views and 1 million likes in a week (seen below, left). Also on June 29th, TikToker^[3] @mrfisterrr posted a similar meme using the character builder from Elden Ring, gathering over 3 million plays and 500,000 likes in a week (seen below, right).

TikTokers @anup_ssss^[4] and @sirczar27^[5] posted similar memes on June 30th and July 5th, gathering over 1 million and 800,000 views respectively (seen below).

Lessons In Meme Culture posted a YouTube^[6] video about the trend on July 7th, gathering over 340,000 views in a day (seen below).

Various Examples

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