If You Ever Feel Useless, Remember That This Exists
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About • Origin • Spread • Various Examples • Search Interest • External References • |
About
If You Ever Feel Useless, Remember That This Exists refers to a phrasal template and series of memes that revolve around posting pictures of various things that are useless or unnecessary. Typically, these appear as image macros with variations of the caption “If you ever feel useless, remember that this exists,” often including an in-joke related to a particular interest or fandom.
Origin
The first examples to use the theme surfaced online around 2014, but the exact first is unknown. One of the earliest versions was posted on February 18th, 2014, by MemeCenter[1] user honeylemonbunny, which depicted the Ryugyong Hotel in North Korea (shown below). The meme received over 3,000 likes and 120 comments in nearly seven years.
![Come Visit! If you ever feel useless, always remember that North Korea has a hotel.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/976/456/b93.png)
Spread
The format and associated phrase continued to spread in the following years appearing on most major sites and platforms. On June 11th, 2015, the Facebook[2] page Thronies posted a version referencing the show Game of Thrones, receiving over 3,000 likes, 140 comments and 110 shares in over five years (seen below, left). On April 12th, 2020, the Instagram[3] account genderfluid.pickle shared another example of the meme, receiving nearly 4,000 likes in eight months (seen below, right).
![Useless IF YOU EVER FEELUSELESS REMEMBER THERE IS RICKON STARK](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/976/457/c81.jpg)
![Nerfed If you ever feel useless, just remember that this exists NERF](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/976/494/ff2.png)
On August 27th, 2020, Facebook[4] user Sarcasm posted a variant that received numerous other variations of the “Olympic swimming lifeguard,” accumulating over 323,000 likes, 28,000 shares and 4,600 comments in four months (shown below, left). On December 26th, Redditor BilboSwagginsDaGawd posted another example to the /r/cyberpunkgame[5] subreddit depicting one of Cyberpunk 2077’s perks, accumulating over 33,700 upvotes, 1,600 comments and several Reddit Awards in 56 hours (shown below, right).
![Pretty much If you ever feel useless, just remember that there is a lifeguard at the swimming Olympics. GUARDA FB/SarcasmLol](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/976/459/289.jpg)
![Commando If you ever feel useless Meme 0/1 FRC RM COMMANDO LOCKED 0/1 PNC AWE PASSIVE 0/1 230 H2 1 LEVEL You cannot be detected under water. LEVEL OF THE RELATED ATTRIBUTE 14 REQUIRED TO UNLOCK THIS PERK MAX LEVEL 100% REMEMBER THAT THIS PERK EXISTS DS](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/976/462/491.png)
On December 27th, 2020, Twitter[6] user lofiWav tweeted another variant depicting Super Smash Brothers ability to use the Nintendo 3DS as a controller, receiving over 8,400 likes and 950 retweets in 26 hours (seen below).
![Why? lofi E @lofiWav If you ever feel useless just remember that Smash 4 had an option to use a 3ds as a controller on wii U SUPER SMASH BRES NTENC VOL. 3D OFF Smash Controller](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/976/464/9a2.png)
Various Examples
![Repair If you ever feel useless, remember this exists Humor / Meme Drix Blackwrench Demon Hunter Rune Thread Eternium Thread 50 30 Crystal Vial Bright Baubles 20 2 50 4 Light Parchment 5 20 Jeweler's Kit 8 Virtuoso Inking Set Arclight Spanner 7 50 9 47 Curing Salt Malleable Wire 9 Prev Next Repair an Item Repair Items 60,897 61 43](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/976/495/e7d.png)
![No Photography jai @gowonspizza if you're ever feeling useless, just remember that this picture exists NO PHOTOGRAPHY OR VIDEOGRAPHY](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/976/497/db4.png)
![Water Fires If you ever feel useless, just remember that Bikini Bottom has a fire department @SPONGECRUST FIRE DEPT.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/976/498/d15.jpg)
Search Interest
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External References
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Tags: snowclone, useless, image macro, meme, if you ever feel useless, remember that this exists, honeylemonbunny, genderfluid.pickle, bilboswagginsdagawd, lofiwav,
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