McGenshin | Know Your Meme

Origin

On December 2nd, 2020, Redditor anoffdutyhooker posted the earliest found McDonald’s-themed Genshin Impact meme, editing a photograph of McDonald’s ordering machine over Zhongli’s Dominus Lapidis pillar. The post received over 4,100 upvotes in the /r/Genshin_Memepact subreddit in six months (shown below, left).

On February 11th, 2021, Redditor -Valstrax- posted a meme in which a Big Mac burger was edited over Zhongli’s Planet Befall meteor, with the image captioned “This Is Your Order” (a play on Zhongli’s quote “I Will Have Order”). The post (shown below, center) received over 2,300 upvotes in /r/Genshin_Memepact in three months. On February 12th, Redditor dragen000 posted a response meme that gained over 1,400 upvotes in the same period (shown below, right).

On April 9th, 2021, TikTok user soloutv posted a Genshin Impact McDonald’s Ice Cream Machine edit that received over 327,100 views and 78,600 likes (shown below, left). On April 10th, 2021, TikTok user albedoiism posted a video containing 15 images of Genshin Impact playable characters with McDonald’s hats and headsets edited onto them, with albedoiism suggesting they should be used as profile pictures. The video received over 45,200 views and 8,300 likes in one month (shown below, right).