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Pikachu Man meme depicting an image of a man wearing a human-like face and yellow morphsuit with glasses on.

Pikachu Man

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Updated Jun 16, 2022 at 04:01PM EDT by Zach.

Added Jun 16, 2022 at 12:23PM EDT by Phillip Hamilton.

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Meme Status Confirmed Type: Character, Exploitable Year 2021 Origin Envato Elements
Tags pikachu tumblr, creepy pikachu man, pikachu tumblr ad, tumblr ads, pikachu man meme, human pikachu, exploitables, pokemon
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Pikachu Man, also known as Creepy Pikachu Man Tumblr Ad or Tumblrchu, is an image of a man wearing simple Pikachu cosplay and adjusting his glasses, worn over a human-looking Pikachu mask with a yellow morphsuit. The image was uploaded to the stock photography website Envato Elements in 2021 and went viral on Tumblr in June 2022 after it appeared on an ad for the website, inspiring fan art and memes using the photo as an exploitable format, many users finding the costume creepy.

Origin

On October 15th, 2021, user twenty20photos uploaded an image to Envato Elements showing a man wearing simple Pikachu cosplay, comprising a yellow morphsuit and a yellow plastic mask resembling a human-looking Pikachu, adjusting his glasses worn over the mask (shown below).

On April 25th, 2022, Tumblr used the image in an on-site advertisement, captioned, "where your interests connect you to your people," gaining over 62,800 notes in two months (shown below).

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Tumblr users took notice of the ad and began posting artwork and memes referencing it, often asking Tumblr to stop showing them the ad and calling the cosplay creepy. On June 14th, 2022, Tumblr user angelhannah posted artwork showing Pikachu man sharking a soda with a Manscaped razor, gaining over 4,600 notes in two days (shown below, left). On the same day, Tumblr user frogaroni posted a meme drawing Surprised Pikachu as the man, gaining over 1,700 notes in two days (shown below, right).

Also on June 14th, Tumblr user sadly-im-not-jared-19 posted a piece of artwork depicting the man in a pose, gaining over 970 notes in two days (shown below).

On the same day, Tumblr user phantomoftheparadise0002 posted an I Fear No Man meme using the image, gaining over 1,300 notes in two days (shown below).