I Told You We Are Going To Watch X And Then You Can Leave

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A September 2022 image macro pulled from Netflix's Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, showing Evan Peters as Jeffrey Dahmer beside a TV that's been photoshopped to play a random or ironically bad movie, show, or game. The caption riffs on Dahmer's line to a victim, turning a threatening scene into a joke about being forced to sit through something dumb.

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Overview

I Told You We Are Going To Watch X And Then You Can Leave is an image macro pulled from a scene in Netflix's Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, in which Evan Peters, playing Jeffrey Dahmer, sits on a couch next to a VCR1. Editors swap the show on the TV for something ironic or memeable, like Shrek, Barbie: Swan Lake, or the Canadian drama North of 60, and pair the shot with the caption, "I told you we are going to watch X and then you can leave"3.

The line riffs on what Dahmer actually says in the source scene, "I told you, we're going to hang out, watch a movie," delivered as he slots a VHS tape into the VCR1. Photoshopping the on-screen media into something goofy or ironically bad flips a threatening moment into a bit about being stuck sitting through a bad show, and the same still gets recycled endlessly with different picks slotted into the TV.

How It Spread

The template blew up on Instagram and iFunny the same day it appeared. Instagram user studress_xo dropped in a Shrek still, iFunny user PsiloDragon used Barbie: Swan Lake, and a repost by gothsdoingthings sourced from the private page betteroffdead.rip cleared 15,000 likes with a Twilight edit3. A SpongeBob SquarePants version by the Facebook page No es más que basura marina pushed past 2,900 reactions in two days.

Riffs kept coming that week. On September 25, edits pointing at Beavis and Butthead and King of the Hill circulated on Instagram and iFunny, and The Chive folded the format into a roundup titled "Get your week started with some filthy memes" the next day2. On September 28, TikToker @aligaturr posted a video edit in which Dahmer feeds the VCR a Call of Duty clip, captioned, "POV: me forcing my girl to watch my gaming clips"4. That video cleared 9.2 million views inside two days and pushed the format into a wider TikTok trend where users spliced their own footage onto the TV, sometimes tagged as Going To Hang Out, Watch a Movie.

How to Use This Meme

The template typically starts from the same still of Dahmer at the TV. Creators drop in a title card, screenshot, or short video and rewrite the caption to name the show, film, or game being forced on someone. A "Play" variant covers video games instead of movies, and TikTok versions often keep the audio of Dahmer's original line and cut to the chosen clip playing on the TV4.

Frequently Asked Questions

I Told You We Are Going To Watch X And Then You Can Leave

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A September 2022 image macro pulled from Netflix's Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, showing Evan Peters as Jeffrey Dahmer beside a TV that's been photoshopped to play a random or ironically bad movie, show, or game. The caption riffs on Dahmer's line to a victim, turning a threatening scene into a joke about being forced to sit through something dumb.

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Overview

I Told You We Are Going To Watch X And Then You Can Leave is an image macro pulled from a scene in Netflix's Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, in which Evan Peters, playing Jeffrey Dahmer, sits on a couch next to a VCR1. Editors swap the show on the TV for something ironic or memeable, like Shrek, Barbie: Swan Lake, or the Canadian drama North of 60, and pair the shot with the caption, "I told you we are going to watch X and then you can leave"3.

The line riffs on what Dahmer actually says in the source scene, "I told you, we're going to hang out, watch a movie," delivered as he slots a VHS tape into the VCR1. Photoshopping the on-screen media into something goofy or ironically bad flips a threatening moment into a bit about being stuck sitting through a bad show, and the same still gets recycled endlessly with different picks slotted into the TV.

How It Spread

The template blew up on Instagram and iFunny the same day it appeared. Instagram user studress_xo dropped in a Shrek still, iFunny user PsiloDragon used Barbie: Swan Lake, and a repost by gothsdoingthings sourced from the private page betteroffdead.rip cleared 15,000 likes with a Twilight edit3. A SpongeBob SquarePants version by the Facebook page No es más que basura marina pushed past 2,900 reactions in two days.

Riffs kept coming that week. On September 25, edits pointing at Beavis and Butthead and King of the Hill circulated on Instagram and iFunny, and The Chive folded the format into a roundup titled "Get your week started with some filthy memes" the next day2. On September 28, TikToker @aligaturr posted a video edit in which Dahmer feeds the VCR a Call of Duty clip, captioned, "POV: me forcing my girl to watch my gaming clips"4. That video cleared 9.2 million views inside two days and pushed the format into a wider TikTok trend where users spliced their own footage onto the TV, sometimes tagged as Going To Hang Out, Watch a Movie.

How to Use This Meme

The template typically starts from the same still of Dahmer at the TV. Creators drop in a title card, screenshot, or short video and rewrite the caption to name the show, film, or game being forced on someone. A "Play" variant covers video games instead of movies, and TikTok versions often keep the audio of Dahmer's original line and cut to the chosen clip playing on the TV4.

Frequently Asked Questions