"Makers" Adding "Unnecessary Sex Scenes" — Hand labeled Makers pours an overflowing ladle labeled Useless sex scenes

"Makers" Adding "Unnecessary Sex Scenes"

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Published October 25, 2026

A satirical joke format mocking Gen Z sex-negativity discourse through an Overflowing Coffee template where a hand labeled "makers" pours "useless s€x scenes" into "any show/movie." Starting from an August 2023 Reddit post, the gag mutated in July 2024 into Marvel jokes casting Fantastic Four villain The Maker as the culprit behind every gratuitous scene.

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Overview

The joke mocks a recurring complaint, mostly from younger film viewers online, that modern movies and shows contain gratuitous sexual content, by picturing anonymous "makers" as a single bumbling figure dumping scenes into every production like coffee overflowing a mug1. Participants play up the absurdity of lumping every writer, director and producer into one flat label, a critique that ran parallel to backlash over HBO Max collapsing filmmaking credits under the heading "creators" in 20232.

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Posts usually take two shapes. The first is the original Overflowing Coffee macro with the hand marked "makers," the coffee marked "useless s€x scenes" and the mug marked "any show / movie," sometimes recaptioned to name a specific show that left viewers rolling their eyes1. The second, which took over in mid-2024, treats the word "maker" as if it referred to one literal person, then nominates a candidate, most often Reed Richards' evil counterpart The Maker from Marvel's Fantastic Four comics3.

Origin & Background

Platform
Reddit (origin) / X (viral spread)
Date
2023

On August 9th, 2023, an anonymous user on the /r/memes subreddit posted an Overflowing Coffee edit captioned "'The idol' left the chat," with the hand labeled "makers," the coffee labeled "useless s€x scenes" and the cup labeled "any show / movie," a direct dig at HBO's then-recent series The Idol1. The image gathered more than 47,000 upvotes over the following year1.

The template was reposted widely in late 2023, including an X version from @wildtiktokss that passed 155,000 likes within a year4. These posts landed alongside wider online debates about Gen Z audiences being more sex-negative than previous generations, and about streamers like Max flattening credits for writers and directors into vague group labels2.

How It Spread

A second wave arrived in late July 2024, when X users noticed that "The Maker" is also the name of a Marvel villain, an evil Reed Richards from the Ultimate universe tied to Fantastic Four lore. On July 28th, 2024, @TILFURTHRNOT1CE pinned the gag on that character, drawing more than 11,000 likes within a month, while @GlebMelnikov8 ran a parallel version that cleared 5,000 likes in the same stretch35.

Two days later, @RadioFreeAnna attached a Deadpool & Wolverine dance clip to the premise, writing that if any "content/media" ever contained an unnecessary sex scene, they would dance to that song in front of the maker, bringing in a Marvel movie that had just hit theaters6. The video post was reshared through X and iFunny alongside the earlier Overflowing Coffee screenshots7.

On August 16th, 2024, @Schaffrillas tied the gag to Star Wars by noting that C-3PO's catchphrase "Thank the Maker" implicates the droid as a fan of the gratuitous-scene guy, a post that drew over 1,700 likes in a week8. The same day, @movieboy69 quoted another user's line, "Me when the makers put unnecessary sex scenes in my media," to zero in on how silly "makers" sounded as a job title, picking up more than 45,000 likes9.

Timeline

2023-05

HBO Max reverses its decision to lump directors and writers under a single "creators" credit after backlash from filmmakers and guilds[2].

2023-08-09

An anonymous /r/memes user posts the original Overflowing Coffee edit with "makers," "useless s€x scenes" and "any show / movie" labels, captioned about HBO's The Idol[1].

2024-07-28

X user @TILFURTHRNOT1CE revives the format by tying "the maker" to the Marvel villain of the same name from Fantastic Four[3].

2024-07-30

X user @RadioFreeAnna posts a Deadpool & Wolverine dance clip joking about dancing in front of "the maker" after any gratuitous scene[6].

2024-08-16

@Schaffrillas drags C-3PO into the bit by pointing out his "Thank the Maker" line, and @movieboy69's quote-tweet of the phrase racks up over 45,000 likes[8][9].

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