Here’s the original screenshot, from the anime The ... of the plot. The butterfly meme first emerged back when memes were still called “image macros,” “All Your Base are Belong to Us ...

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as he quickly proves when he mixes up a butterfly with a pigeon. The meme first circulated on Tumblr in 2011, according to Know Your Meme, first to mock poor subtitle translation on anime shows.