
*Teleports Behind You* Nothing Personal, Kid
Published September 30, 2026
*Teleports Behind You* Nothing Personal, Kid is a copypasta used to caption photos of young men wielding katanas or other bladed weapons, mocking fedora-and-anime edgelord posturing. The phrase fused a 2013 Coldsteel the Hedgeheg illustration with a classic anime speed-blitz trope, then caught on across Facebook, YouTube, and Reddit throughout late 2016.
Overview
The joke pairs two beats: a narrated action ('teleports behind you') and a smug one-liner ('nothing personal, kid'), stapled to a photo of someone posing with a katana or knife, often in a fedora or trench coat3. Fans intentionally misspell 'personal' as 'personnel' or 'personel' as part of the ironic tone. The reference points at anime speed-blitzes, notably the Rapid Movement technique from Dragon Ball8, with the bladed-weapon spin sometimes traced back to Bleach.
A parallel visual thread came from a May 2007 WikiHow article on surviving a public shooting, whose illustration titled 'a man surprising a shooter from behind' became a Photoshop target that fed the *Teleports Behind You* Nothing Personal, Kid format9.
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The template typically pairs a photo of someone posing with a bladed weapon, often in a fedora or trench coat, with the two-part caption narrating a supernatural sneak attack. Common convention includes misspelling 'personal' as 'personnel' or 'personel' and wrapping stage directions in asterisks, as in '*teleports behind you*.'
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