Viral 'You Should Kill Yourself... Now!' meme explained
Andrew Walker
Updated on March 24, 2026
Throughout 2021, lots of hilarious new memes have gone viral.
Anakin and Padme, Marie Callender Burnt Pie and Bernie Sanders at Biden’s Inauguration are just a few of the year’s most popular memes.
Another big one is ‘You Should Kill Yourself… Now!’ which sounds far more morbid than it actually is.
Where does the meme actually come from? Lets explore its origins.
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What is the ‘You Should Kill Yourself… Now! meme?
If you’re on Twitter, you’ve probably seen the ‘You Should Kill Yourself… Now!’ meme pop up a lot on your feed over the last year.
The meme is a photo of a man, who is actually popular YouTuber Low Tier God, surrounded by lightning.
Next to his face, it says the title of the meme: “You Should Kill Yourself… Now!”
The photoshopped image first emerged on Discord, but where did it come from?
Origins of the meme explored
The meme is related to YouTuber Dalauan Sparrow aka Low Tier God’s streams.
Low Tier God is a gamer who is part of the Japanese competitive video game franchise Street Fighter.
During a Super Smash Bros stream in April 2021, he said the phrase ‘You Should Kill Yourself… Now!’ to the other player and it got turned into a viral meme.
The meme then went viral and began being used to react to things on social media.
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Shortly before the rant, Japanese video game developer and publisher Capcom banned Low Tier God from all Capcom-related events until further notice.
This came after a clip surfaced of him making negative comments about another streamer.
The clip was not linked to the ‘You Should Kill Yourself… Now!’ rant and involved a separate incident with streamer CeroBlast who had recently come out as non-binary.
