That’s it for the first meme contest.
Congratulations on the tiny sparks of absurdist joy you’ve brought to our lives, everyone. We had a lot of great submissions, but unfortunately, there can only be one winner. Unless there are five winners listed in reverse order for faux-suspense, which is what I’m actually giving you.
Joint #4: @OmnipotentFNarr
He made it on Google Slides, the perfect graphics editing program, so it’s no surprise to see OmnipotentFNarr’s entry here. With one word, he encapsulates several years of Thrive dev and fan bickering about the nature of subaqueous cities. Not to mention, that word is from the mad titan himself. Thrive as Thanos…now there’s an idea…
Joint #4: @Archeodox
The almighty democratic process decreed there was a tie for fourth place, so joining OmnipotentFNarr here is Archeodox with his rendition of Rick entering the toxic minefield that is the Thrive tidepool. Nothing else could quite capture the terror one experiences as they watch a horde of toxin-spewing microbes advance on them from afar.
#3: @QuantumCrab
I’m going to be honest, I’m not 100% sure this counts as a meme, but it’s so well done I don’t care. I’m sure we’re all itching to reach the day when you can buy a Disturbance Amiibo in your local game merch store, and I’m sure when we do it’ll look exactly like QuantumCrab’s rendering here. Maybe that’s how we’ll fund the game: get subsumed into Nintendo so we can piggyback off their merchandising schemes.
#2: @DiddeZ
Why have a boring old land civ when you can be an exciting, controversial underwater civ? DiddeZ gives us a glimpse of the inevitable rivalry between players who crawl onto land and those who insist on staying underwater in this creative take on a meme classic. Very much captures the art style of the original applied to a new world of Thrive, so well done.
#1: @DonGororo
Well this is awkward.
Look Mum, I’m a meme! I’ve finally achieved true fame!
DonGororo’s clutch play stormed to the top of the poll, and with good reason. I’m grateful to know random people have random happy thoughts about a nickname I created out of the blue seven years ago. At least, I hope they do. What if the meme’s lying? No, memes would never do that to me. Memes never lie.
Turns out all you need to win one of these competitions is the ability to erase a river in Photoshop and a jab at a developer. People seem to like that. Congrats, DonGororo. Well deserved.
So, that’s over.
Can I get permission from the winners to post these to our social media platforms? I have a feeling the actual winner might go over a few people’s heads, but we need to follow up on the announcement of the competition.