Cmon Do Something

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Cmon Do Something is a Photoshop meme built from a White Ninja webcomic panel showing the character poking an object with a long stick and demanding it react. Redditors turned the 2003 illustration into an exploitable in 2015, and it peaked on r/dankmemes and NFL Facebook pages in 2017.

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Overview

Cmon Do Something is a Photoshop meme built around an exploitable panel from the Canadian webcomic White Ninja1. The original drawing shows the White Ninja character standing over an object and jabbing it with a long stick, muttering the words 'C'mon, do something.' Editors swap the object being poked for sports logos, video games, flags, or anything the poster finds boring, dead, or disappointing4.

The joke works because the White Ninja looks bored and vaguely aggressive at the same time, poking at something that obviously cannot respond. That made the template a natural fit for sports fandom frustration, meme fatigue posts, and self-deprecating 'do something already' bits across Reddit3.

How It Spread

Sports subreddits picked up the format next. On September 25th, 2016, Redditor axiomaticwisdom posted an edit to r/steelers with the White Ninja prodding the Pittsburgh Steelers logo, pulling more than 5,400 points and 130 comments before the thread was archived3. The NFL Memes Facebook page pushed the format to a much larger audience on February 5th, 2017, posting a version aimed at the New England Patriots that racked up over 63,000 reactions, 52,000 shares, and 4,300 comments within two months7.

The template exploded on r/dankmemes in April 2017. On April 17th, ALLCAPS-hashtag submitted a strip captioned 'When you run out of memes' in which the White Ninja pokes a series of national flags asking 'C'mon, do a world war,' collecting upwards of 14,100 points and 240 comments in 48 hours5. The next day, WhyDidntYouDoMyJob reposted the same image to r/meirl, where it pulled another 4,800 points and 170 comments in 24 hours6.

Other edits landed the same week. Redditor napuinsai submitted a darker 'When you ran out of memes' variant featuring emo teens on r/dankmemes4, and Bill_Cosby666 asked r/MemeEconomy whether Cmon Do Something posts were 'invest worthy'8.

How to Use This Meme

The template typically shows the White Ninja panel with the dead fish swapped out for whatever the poster wants to mock. A common convention is a caption or speech bubble starting with 'C'mon' followed by a demand, with the object being poked chosen to trigger a specific fandom, a sports team, a struggling video game, a political figure, or the state of memes themselves5.

Frequently Asked Questions

Cmon Do Something

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Cmon Do Something is a Photoshop meme built from a White Ninja webcomic panel showing the character poking an object with a long stick and demanding it react. Redditors turned the 2003 illustration into an exploitable in 2015, and it peaked on r/dankmemes and NFL Facebook pages in 2017.

exploitable templates photoshop memes webcomic memes nfl memes dismissal memes

Overview

Cmon Do Something is a Photoshop meme built around an exploitable panel from the Canadian webcomic White Ninja1. The original drawing shows the White Ninja character standing over an object and jabbing it with a long stick, muttering the words 'C'mon, do something.' Editors swap the object being poked for sports logos, video games, flags, or anything the poster finds boring, dead, or disappointing4.

The joke works because the White Ninja looks bored and vaguely aggressive at the same time, poking at something that obviously cannot respond. That made the template a natural fit for sports fandom frustration, meme fatigue posts, and self-deprecating 'do something already' bits across Reddit3.

How It Spread

Sports subreddits picked up the format next. On September 25th, 2016, Redditor axiomaticwisdom posted an edit to r/steelers with the White Ninja prodding the Pittsburgh Steelers logo, pulling more than 5,400 points and 130 comments before the thread was archived3. The NFL Memes Facebook page pushed the format to a much larger audience on February 5th, 2017, posting a version aimed at the New England Patriots that racked up over 63,000 reactions, 52,000 shares, and 4,300 comments within two months7.

The template exploded on r/dankmemes in April 2017. On April 17th, ALLCAPS-hashtag submitted a strip captioned 'When you run out of memes' in which the White Ninja pokes a series of national flags asking 'C'mon, do a world war,' collecting upwards of 14,100 points and 240 comments in 48 hours5. The next day, WhyDidntYouDoMyJob reposted the same image to r/meirl, where it pulled another 4,800 points and 170 comments in 24 hours6.

Other edits landed the same week. Redditor napuinsai submitted a darker 'When you ran out of memes' variant featuring emo teens on r/dankmemes4, and Bill_Cosby666 asked r/MemeEconomy whether Cmon Do Something posts were 'invest worthy'8.

How to Use This Meme

The template typically shows the White Ninja panel with the dead fish swapped out for whatever the poster wants to mock. A common convention is a caption or speech bubble starting with 'C'mon' followed by a demand, with the object being poked chosen to trigger a specific fandom, a sports team, a struggling video game, a political figure, or the state of memes themselves5.

Frequently Asked Questions