Pacha Edits — Pacha from The Emperor's New Groove making an OK chef's-kiss gesture with both hands, eyes closed

Pacha Edits

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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.

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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

Platform
4chan /v/
Date
2016

The still comes from The Emperor's New Groove, the 2000 Disney animated buddy comedy, in a moment where Pacha shows off his hilltop village to Emperor Kuzco. On January 29, 2016, a 4chan user opened a thread on the /v/ (video games) board with a cleaned template of the shot and asked others to remix it into video game imagery3. The poster who kicked off that thread is unconfirmed as the format's creator, so the meme is best credited to anonymous /v/ regulars rather than any single artist.

How It Spread

That first /v/ thread drew hundreds of responses and quickly jumped to sister boards, most notably /vp/ (Pokemon) and /co/ (Comics & Cartoons), which each ran their own Pacha template threads3. Recurring threads with titles like "Vidya Pacha," "Pachapost," "Pacha Time," and "The Pachaning" cycled through the /v/ and /co/ catalogs across the following weeks, keeping the template in constant rotation.

Within days of the /v/ spike, fans set up a Danbooru-style2 archive dedicated to collecting Pacha edits, so submissions from the imageboard threads could be sorted and searched outside of 4chan's rolling catalog. The template stayed in circulation as a reaction image long after the initial burst, with the OK pose showing up on 4chan and adjacent forums as a stock way to signal quiet approval.

Timeline

2000-12-15

Disney releases The Emperor's New Groove, the source of the Pacha screenshot.

2016-01-29

A 4chan /v/ thread posts a blank Pacha template and asks users to remix it into video game imagery.

2016-02

Copycat threads spread to /vp/ (Pokemon) and /co/ (Comics & Cartoons), producing hundreds of edits.

2016-02

A Danbooru-style fan archive is set up to collect the edits outside of 4chan's rolling catalog.

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.

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