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You Cannot Kill Me In A Way That Matters
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About
You Cannot Kill Me In A Way That Matters is a phrase from a 2018 Tumblr shitpost story about mushrooms. It has since become part of Tumblr culture and spawned fan art, dramatic readings, merchandise and music.
Origin
Around June 15th, 2018, Tumblr user personsonable posted a three-paragraph story about a person asking a mushroom for the name of God under gunpoint, to which the mushroom replies by taunting its supremacy, terrifying and enraging the person.
![Original post personsonable me holding a gun to a mushroom: tell me the name of god you fungal p------------ mushroom: can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot kill me in a way that matters me cocking the gun, tears streaming down my face: I'M NOT F------ SCARED OF YOU miaislying Hey OP? What the F--- does this mean? personsonable decay exists as an extant form of life miaislying That's a terrifying answer, have a nice day](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/144/669/483.png)
me holding a gun to a mushroom: tell me the name of god you fungal piece of shit
mushroom: can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot kill me in a way that matters
me cocking the gun, tears streaming down my face: IβM NOT FUCKING SCARED OF YOU
In a series of replies that often accompanies screenshots of the post, personsonable explains that meaning behind the story:
miaislying: Hey OP? What the FUCK does this mean?
personsonable: decay exists as an extant form of life
miaislying: Thatβs a terrifying answer, have a nice day
The post gained over 116,000 notes in two weeks, but was deleted around 2019 and only indirectly archived.[1]
Spread
A screenshot of the conversation was posted by Tumblr user stabsinthe on December 24th, 2018, gaining a further 157,000 notes.[2]
![Popular reblog stabsinthe-archive "you cannot kill me in a way that matters" is so raw and powerful but it comes from an incomprehensible shitpost about mushrooms letthedalekssaycuck add it to the list boys mckitterick personsonable me holding a gun to a mushroom: tell me the name of god you fungal p------------ mushroom: can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot kill me in a way that matters me cocking the gun, tears streaming down my face: I'M NOT F------ SCARED OF YOU miaislying Hey OP? What the F--- does this mean? personsonable decay exists as an extant form of life miaislying That's a terrifying answer, have a nice day](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/144/671/617.jpg)
Screenshots were also posted across Reddit[3][4][5] and Twitter[6] over the following years, all gaining thousands of points. The story spawned many instances of fanart and comic dramatizations; for example, a post by miamitu[9] gained over 184,000 notes.
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Several dramatic readings of the story have been performed and posted on Tumblr, YouTube and TikTok. The below examples were posted on August 19th, 2020, and February 9th, 2021, gaining 68,000 likes and 89,200 likes respectively.[7][8]
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6927082509293391110
The phrase "You cannot kill me in a way that matters" also inspired music, with at least two songs carrying the phrase in its title. They were released on March 17, 2019, and February 5th, 2021, respectively (shown below).
Shroomjak Variation
After the mushroom-themed meme Shroomjak emerged in 2021, the phrase resurfaced and began being paired with the character. For example a post in /r/196[10] on June 30th, 2021 by thecatofnumbers gained over 5,300 points (shown below, left). Another was posted on 4chan on July 5th[11] (shown below, right).
![Extant rule can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyong anything you soul can make. you cannot kill me in a way tell me the name of god you fungal p------------ that matters I'M NOT F------ SCARED OF YOU](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/137/542/978.png)
![tell me the name of god you fungal p------------ heart TELL ME THE NAME OF GOD yoU FUNGHL P------------! can you feel your burning? can you feel the struggle within? The fear in me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot kill me in'a that matters way IM NOT SCARED OF you * Tears streaming dnun my face *](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/142/980/c6a.png)
Various Examples
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![Fanart by Ollikiwi CLICK Tell the name of me god you fungal p------------! CAN YOU FEEL YBUR HEART BURNING CAN YOU FEEL THE STRUGGLE WITHIN? THE FEAR VWITHW ME IS BEYOND ANYIHING YOUR SOUL CAN MAKE. YOu CANNOT Kil ME IN A WAY THAT MATTERS. I'm not- F------ SCARED OF YOU!](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/144/645/8e0.jpg)
Search interest
External References
[1] Tumblr (archived) β personsonable
[2] Tumblr β mckitterick
[3] Reddit β ο½ο½ ο½ο½ ο½ο½ ο½ο½ο½ ο½ο½ο½ο½ ο½ο½ ο½ο½ο½ ο½ο½ο½ ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ ο½ο½ο½ ο½ο½ ο½ο½ ο½ο½ο½ο½
[4] Reddit β Can you kill me in a way that doesnβt matter?
[6] Twitter β @FreyjaErlings
[7] YouTube β Luke Correia
[8] TikTok β decay is an extant form of life
[10] Reddit β Extant Rule
Top Comments
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