Master The 'Solid Snake Method of Conversation' And More

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Know Your Meme Team
July 14, 2025

This week in memes, users explored the Orc City, Papa Squid Game haunted TikTok, the Solid Snake Method revolutionized the art of conversation and more.

Orc City refers to memes and jokes inspired by Twitter / X user and fantasy author John A. Douglas's book The Black Crown. In early July 2025, Douglas posted a tweet criticizing Japanese video game designer Hideo Kojima for giving the name "Fat Man" to the villain in the video game Metal Gear. The tweet prompted X user @capybaroness to post the opening chapters of Douglas's book in which he describes the aftermath of an "orc war." Several internet users mocked Douglas's writing for using simple fantasy tropes where orcs fight elves, highlighting lines like, "[The orc city's] ruin was overseen by the architect of its very destruction," and a line in which an "elvish king" says, "There is nothing more reviled than an Orc." Jokes about life in Orc City, as well as the war between "orcs" and "elves," began circulating online soon after the tweet went viral.

The Solid Snake Method of Conversation is a technique of conversation practiced by speaking like the character Solid Snake from the Metal Gear Solid video game franchise, denoted by repeating the last thing someone said in a conversation as a question. Some take the method further by grunting and dragging out the last part of their words, similarly to how David Hayter delivers lines as Snake. Memes about the Solid Snake Method derive from a 4chan post made in late October 2023. The post garnered viral spread and continued to inspire memes referencing it and the method in general over the following years.

The Angela Anaconda Digimon Movie Divorce Greentext is a greentext story in which an anonymous 4chan user claims that their parents got divorced after taking them to see Digimon: The Movie in theaters. The story claims that the anon's parents started arguing after seeing the Angela Anaconda crossover short before the movie, each parent blaming the other for going to the wrong movie. The arguing got them into a car crash, and a month later, they got divorced.

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