Get Rotated Idiot

Submission 7,293

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About

Get Rotated, Idiot refers to a viral video featuring a scuba diver and a tiger shark that spawned a catchphrase and a redraw trend in the early 2020s. The video shows a diver grabbing a shark by the snout and "rotating" him in order to disarm the approaching animal. The video was turned into a meme in which the phrase "Get Rotated, Idiot" was displayed in the stylistic format of a Demotivational Poster with a black frame and serif text surrounding the frame of the diver rotating the shark. Redraws of the frame began to spread on iFunny, Tumblr and X in 2022.

Origin

On July 9th, 2015, YouTube channel Discovery Canada^[1] posted a video titled, "The Tiger Shark Nose Stand," where a diver can be seen redirecting a curious approaching shark by gently grabbing his snout and rotating him till he floats almost vertically. The video gathered over 1.5 million views in eight years (seen below).

The earliest known Demotivational Poster memes about the shark video were videos posted to Reddit's /r/Unexpected^[2] and /r/shitposting^[3] (seen below) by /u/aomusik and /u/Alexander__chieffs on December 17th, 2021. The posts gathered over 14,000 and 23,000 upvotes each.

On December 19th, 2021, iFunny^[4] user @BlinkBox44 gathered over 7,000 smiles on an image post of the "Get Rotated, idiot" frame in two years (seen below).

Spread

The earliest known redraw of the "Get Rotated" meme is a December 21st, 2021, post by X^[5] user @miannawzays, which gathered over 13,000 likes in two years (seen below, left). A January 23rd, 2022, redraw by Tumblr^[6] user @vonspe gathered over 8,000 notes in two years (seen below, right).

On May 25th, 2022, Reddit^[7] user /u/Dawson9839 posted a version of the meme using a still from Dragon Ball Z, gathering over 500 upvotes in over a year (seen below, left). On September 2nd, Redditor^[8] /u/Linxarts posted a redraw of the meme to /r/Hololive that gathered over 1800 upvotes in a year (seen below right).