# Link's Balls Link's Balls refers to a July 2023 viral moment when a TikTok clip from The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom appeared to show Link's testicles bouncing after a Hinox knocked him over. The joke blew up on Twitter within days, with users insisting Nintendo had added jiggle physics to the character's groin. By late July, dataminers and animators debunked the clip as a mesh-clipping glitch, but the Oh That's Real Nice quote-tweets kept the gag going on X. ## Origin On July 14, 2023, TikToker @loonathemoon uploaded a Tears of the Kingdom gameplay clip in which Link fights a Hinox, gets smacked, and tumbles onto all fours with the camera framed behind him[1]. For a split second a bulge seems to appear in his pants, prompting speculation that Nintendo had modeled testicles for the Hyrule hero. The clip surpassed 1.6 million views and 182,000 likes in five days[6]. Nintendo developed The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom; @loonathemoon posted the clip that sparked the gag, but the meme itself was built by Twitter users who screencapped the moment and bolted it onto other formats. - **Platform:** TikTok (origin) / Twitter (viral spread) - **Creator:** Unknown - **Date:** 2023 ## Overview Posts in the Link's Balls format center on a single screenshot or short clip of Link on all fours after a Hinox strike, usually captioned with a joke about Nintendo's supposed commitment to anatomical realism in a family-rated Zelda title[1]. Many of the viral tweets paired the frame with existing reaction templates, most famously the Oh That's Real Nice meme used by @TAlecgatr[4]. The humor hinges on the gap between Nintendo's clean-cut Hyrule and the idea that someone at the studio animated jiggle physics for Link's groin[2]. Within days of the clip going viral, fan debunks arrived: a dataminer posted a model inspection showing Link has no genitals, and an outside animator argued the bulge was his torso clipping through the tunic mesh[5]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Link's Balls? A July 2023 viral joke claiming Nintendo animated jiggle physics for Link's testicles in Tears of the Kingdom, based on a brief bulge visible in a TikTok clip of Link falling after a Hinox hit[1]. ### Where did Link's Balls come from? The origin clip was uploaded on July 14, 2023, by TikToker @loonathemoon and gathered more than 1.6 million views before migrating to Twitter[1][6]. ### What does Link's Balls mean? It is an in-joke about Nintendo supposedly giving a family-friendly Zelda protagonist anatomical detail, which fans later proved false after inspecting Link's 3D model[5]. ### How do you use Link's Balls? Users typically share the Hinox fall screenshot or clip with a reaction caption, often pairing it with templates like Oh That's Real Nice as @TAlecgatr did[4]. ### Is Link's Balls still popular? Its peak was mid-to-late July 2023 on Twitter, where the top posts hit tens of thousands of likes within days before the debunks slowed the gag[2][3]. ## References 1. [https://www.tiktok.com/@loonathemoon/video/7255548663315926314]() 2. [https://twitter.com/dahffodil/status/1680443583659225088]() 3. [https://twitter.com/kyra_alvarado_/status/1680652241974304770]() 4. [https://twitter.com/TAlecgatr/status/1680749960654880768]() 5. [https://twitter.com/konjak/status/1681330710924214273]() 6. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/links-balls]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/links-balls Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library