The following day, the template was posted on subreddit /r/memes, by Redditor DaltarIT24, gaining 42,300 upvotes in one month.
The first instance of the meme is found on Twitter, posted on April 21st, 2021 by an account dedicated to sharing fake Star Wars quotes, gaining roughly 100,000 upvotes and 16,000 retweets in two months (shown below).
Portrait of a person dressed as Padme Amidala at the Star Wars Celebration event at Wintrust Arena, Chicago, Illinois, April 13, 2019. This scene was first uploaded to YouTube by the channel Nathanael Gratias on February 4th, 2016, and acquired 149,000 views in five years (shown below). Jessica Lewis of Greenville, Tenn., dressed as Padme Armidala in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones at the Star Wars Celebration V in Orlando. The subtitles are entirely invented, albeit still based on the film's overall theme of Anakin's progression to becoming an evil Sith. The dialogue in the captions used in the meme format is never actually said in the film, during the depicted scene or elsewhere. The dialogue includes the other memed phrase 'I Don't Think the System Works'. In the scene depicted, Anakin (Hayden Christensen) and Padmé (Natalie Portman) are on a romantic picnic while discussing their pasts and how they have different views on the Galactic Republic's system of governance.
