Pacha Edits
Published September 20, 2026
Pacha Edits, also known as When The Sun Hits That Ridge Just Right, is a photoshop meme built from a still of Pacha from Disney's The Emperor's New Groove flashing an OK hand gesture. The exploitable took off on 4chan's /v/ board in late January 2016 and spawned hundreds of remixes across imageboard subforums.
Overview
The meme centers on a screenshot of Pacha standing on a grassy overlook and flashing an approving OK sign with his left hand, taken from a scene where he pitches Emperor Kuzco on the ideal ridge for sunrise viewing1. Users started blanking out the ridge behind him to drop Pacha into video game covers, Pokemon regions, cartoon scenes, and other pop culture cutouts, with a snowclone caption riffing on his in-movie line "When the sun hits that ridge just right"3.
The joke works because the gesture reads as low-key satisfaction, so pairing it with objectively bad, obscure, or ironic subject matter creates a comedic mismatch. Common edits swap the ridge for the cover art of a niche game, a Pokemon route sign, or a specific corner of a beloved fictional map, and the caption fills in with whatever the poster is endorsing that day.
Origin & Background
How It Spread
How to Use This Meme
A typical Pacha Edit takes the blank template of Pacha on his hill and replaces the ridge with any piece of media the poster wants to endorse: a game cover, a manga panel, a Pokemon region, or a movie still. The caption often follows the "When The Sun Hits That Ridge Just Right" snowclone, swapping "the sun" and "that ridge" for whatever fits the scene.