Let's Ride the Mechanism! — Fortnite female character and Fishstick in front of a chaotic water slide tower with speech bubbles about breaking bones and riding

Let's Ride the Mechanism!

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Published November 14, 2026

Let's Ride the Mechanism! is an exploitable image macro showing two Fortnite characters, Evie and Fishstick, staring with open-mouthed excitement at Qatar's under-construction Icon Tower waterslide while declaring they want to break every bone in their bodies on it. iFunny user Schizo_Chopper uploaded the original in August 2022, and by January 2023 Instagram and Twitter accounts were redrawing the setup with cats and Guilty Gear fighters.

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Overview

Fishstick and Evie stand side-by-side in open-mouthed, wide-eyed poses borrowed from the Two Soyjaks Pointing template, aimed at a promotional rendering of Icon Tower at Qatar's Aquatar Water Park on Qetaifan Island1. At 279 feet, that structure was marketed as the world's tallest waterslide when the rendering circulated in mid-20221, giving the real-world punchline for the characters' stated urge to 'break all their bones' riding 'the mechanism.'

Redraws of Let's Ride the Mechanism! typically preserve the pointing composition and the title line while swapping the two Fortnite skins for other characters. Documented variants include a cat edit7, hand-drawn fan art interpretations shared by Twitter artists in late 20224, and a Guilty Gear crossover from January 20233.

Origin & Background

Platform
iFunny (origin) / Twitter (viral spread)
Creator
Schizo_Chopper
Date
2022

iFunny user Schizo_Chopper uploaded the first Let's Ride the Mechanism! post on August 16, 20223. Evie appears on the left with a speech bubble reading 'Let's break all our bones!' and Fishstick stands on the right saying 'Let's ride the mechanism!' A widely circulated rendering of Icon Tower served as the backdrop, showing a slide then under construction on Qetaifan Island, a $40 billion artificial-island development off Qatar's coast created ahead of the 2022 FIFA World Cup1.

How It Spread

Reposts to Instagram arrived within days, with account howitfeelstochewfivegum sharing the image on August 19, 20228. r/okbuddyretard picked it up on September 18, 20222. Twitter account @MemeOfLord reposted the original Let's Ride the Mechanism! image on November 6, 2022 with the comment that it 'has done more for the Fortnite community than almost the entirety of Fortnite Vibin' ever will,' reaching about 1,200 likes5.

Hand-drawn fan art followed later that month. @logishere tweeted a version captioned 'Let's ride the mechanism!' on November 9, 2022, drawing roughly 2,900 likes4, and @Nutquesadilla followed with a stylized redraw on November 18 that reached around 1,400 likes6. Cross-fandom versions arrived in early 2023, including Instagram account ofcoursecats swapping the two Fortnite skins for cats on January 23 to over 3,700 likes7.

Timeline

2022-08-16

IFunny user Schizo_Chopper uploads the original image with Evie and Fishstick pointing at a rendering of Qatar's Icon Tower waterslide.

2022-08-19

Instagram account howitfeelstochewfivegum reposts the image to its feed.

2022-09-18

The image reaches Reddit's r/okbuddyretard community.

2022-11-06

Twitter account @MemeOfLord reposts the original image with a quip about Fortnite Vibin'.

2022-11-09

Twitter user @logishere posts hand-drawn fan art captioned 'Let's ride the mechanism!'

2022-11-18

Twitter user @Nutquesadilla shares a stylized redraw of the image.

2023-01-23

Instagram account ofcoursecats posts a cat version swapping the two Fortnite skins.

2023-01-29

Twitter user @Ded_Meet posts a Guilty Gear interpretation of the format.

How to Use This Meme

Pick two characters and draw them side-by-side in the Two Soyjaks Pointing pose, both staring excitedly at a target off-frame or added behind them. Keep one speech bubble as 'Let's ride the mechanism!' and either leave the 'break all our bones' line in place or swap it for another expression of enthusiasm for self-destruction. Common versions include cats and Guilty Gear fighters standing in for Evie and Fishstick.

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