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Raiden Punching Armstrong refers to a quick-fourth dimension effect from the 2013 video game Metallic Gear Ascent: Revengeance in which the protagonist Raiden apace punches the main villain Senator Steven Armstrong in the breadbasket to no effect. The scene, oft 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 as source material for image macros, video captions, GIF captions and remakes.

Origin

On February 19th, 2013, the hack-and-slash video game Metal Gear Ascension: Revengeance, a spin-off installment in the Metal Gear series, was released.^[ane] The final boss fight of the game, a duel between the protagonist Raiden and the chief villain Senator Armstrong, included a quick-time upshot in which Raidens speedily punches Armstrong in the stomach to zero effect (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 postal service gained virtually 590 upvotes on the site. On June 4th, 2018, Twitter^[3] user @OolongEarlGrey posted the GIF to Twitter, captioning information technology, "When you start putting down money on student loans in small weekly payments." The postal service received 26 retweets and over 100 likes in 3 years.

On February 20th, 2021, iFunny^[four] user ElliotRogerisAllah posted a GIF explanation meme based on the GIF, speeding it up and captioning it, "Cyberbullies trying to groovy me after I turn off the computer." The post gained over fourscore smiles in one year (shown beneath).

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In the following weeks, an unknown user paired the GIF caption with the concluding theme Mario and Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, with the video explanation going viral in early March on Discord.^[8]

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

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— The Funny (@TheFunny_mp4) March 13, 2021

On March 14th, 2021, YouTuber^[6] Rad Dude uploaded another version of the video caption, now paired with the song "Information technology Has to Be This Way" (ameliorate known by its first lyric "Continuing Here I Realize") from the game's soundtrack. The video received more than 723,000 views in x months (shown below).

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

While the song "Standing Here I Realize," better known past its first lyric "Standing Here I Realize," does not announced during the quick fourth dimension outcome, information technology appears later in the fight confronting Senator Armstrong. The song 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.^[vii]

The song has been used every bit source material for memes at least since April 2014, primarily being used to back-trail various fighting scenes. For case, on Apr 10th, 2014, YouTuber^[9] NotTimWakefield paired a fighting scene from Star Expedition fighting scene with the song, with the video gaining over 189,600 views in eight years (shown below, 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 1.three million views in seven years (shown below, right).

Spread

Prior to 2021, the song has been used in more like memes posted on YouTube. For instance, on October 14th, 2018, YouTuber^[eleven] The Memester uploaded a Thor: Ragnarok boxing scene paired with the vocal, with video gaining over 103,000 views in 3 years (shown below, left). On June 6th, 2021, YouTuber^[12] ElMaxitos uploaded a Nighttime Souls edit that gained over 241,000 views in six months (shown beneath, right).

On May 18th, 2021, Instagram^[13] user lynx.mf posted the primeval found derivative GIF explanation meme based on the GIF of Raiden punching Armstrong; the mail service (shown below), captioned "me trying to fight my drunk father to protect my siblings," gained over two,000 views and 620 likes in eight months, with a same-day repost past Instagram^[14] user bokudere gaining over 86,000 views and twenty,100 likes in the same period.

On July 26th, 2021, YouTuber^[15] Hemotoksin uploaded the looped prune of Raiden punching Armstrong, which gained over 1.1 one thousand thousand views in 6 months.

Starting in late 2021, the two formats merged into a unmarried trend as 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 it gained over 3,000 upvotes in two months. On December 18th, 2021, YouTube^[19] user Andra uploaded a Stick figure remake of the video which received more than 185,000 views in ane month (shown below, left). On January 7th, 2022, YouTube^[18] user Verdigus uploaded a video titled "Standing Hither I Realise simply it's ROBLOX" which gained over 18,000 views in two weeks (shown below, right).

The trend besides spread to other social media, including Twitter and Facebook. For instance, on January 2nd, 2022, Twitter^[19] user @ARgaytec uploaded a Girls' Frontline version which received over 110 retweets and 330 likes in three weeks. A January 4th, 2022, repost by Facebook^[20] folio "Girls' Realine Raifuposting Echelon" gained over 430 reactions and 150 shares in the same flow. On Jan 18th, 2022, Facebook^[21] user John Salsa uploaded a Team Fortress 2 version (created by Discord user cimex749) to the "Team Fortress ii" group. The video received over ane,100 reactions and 770 shares in two days.

Additionally, the video has been used equally source textile for object-labeling memes. For example, on Jan 2nd, 2022, Facebook^[22] user Luis Ramos uploaded the video with the characters labeled "Weakest Tomboy" and "Strongest Femboy" to "Metal gear ascent Nanoposting," where it gained over 660 reactions and 660 shares in three weeks (shown beneath, left).