# The Weak Should Fear the Strong The Weak Should Fear the Strong is an exploitable image format that pastes a 2013 Facebook comment onto photos of one subject physically dominating another. The template started with Sam Hyde choking photos posted to Million Dollar Extreme's Facebook page and later drifted into Pepe edits, alt-right Twitter posts, and wholesome animal pictures. ## Origin On December 8, 2013, the Million Dollar Extreme Facebook page posted a gallery titled "I Love Beating Up D***s" that included photos of comedian Sam Hyde putting women in headlocks and chokeholds[1]. Two days later, on December 10, 2013, Facebook user Ryan Moriarty commented "the weak should fear the strong" on one of the images[1]. The exact creator of the first mashup pairing Moriarty's comment with the photo is unknown, but one of the earliest documented copies appeared on the halolzmafia forum on June 15, 2014[2]. - **Platform:** Facebook (caption origin) / halolzmafia (earliest known mashup) - **Creator:** Unknown (caption written by Facebook user Ryan Moriarty; first mashup creator unconfirmed) - **Date:** 2013 ## Overview The format pastes a Facebook comment screenshot reading "the weak should fear the strong" onto any photo where one subject physically dominates another. Early versions used Sam Hyde photos putting women in headlocks[1], while later edits swapped in Pepe the Frog[5], cute animals, and unrelated subject matter for ironic contrast. The joke lands through sincere menacing text layered over goofy or wholesome imagery, with the Facebook UI chrome kept visible so the viewer still sees commenter Ryan Moriarty's name attached to the line[2]. Over the following years, the caption drifted into general-use macro territory, applied to any scene of one entity physically towering over or restraining another. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is The Weak Should Fear the Strong? It's an exploitable image macro that pastes a Facebook comment reading "the weak should fear the strong" onto photos of one subject physically dominating another, started from a 2013 Million Dollar Extreme post[1]. ### Where did The Weak Should Fear the Strong come from? The caption was written by Facebook user Ryan Moriarty on December 10, 2013 under a Million Dollar Extreme gallery of Sam Hyde choking photos[1]. One of the earliest edits pairing the comment with the photo appeared on halolzmafia in June 2014[2]. ### What does The Weak Should Fear the Strong mean? Read straight, the line is menacing social Darwinism, but as a meme caption it's usually ironic, slapped onto Pepe edits or wholesome animal pics for absurd contrast[5]. ### How do you use The Weak Should Fear the Strong? Grab any image where one subject physically overpowers or towers over another, then overlay the original Facebook comment screenshot so Ryan Moriarty's caption reads over the picture[2]. ### Is The Weak Should Fear the Strong still popular? After peaking in 2015 and 2016 across Funnyjunk, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, it has lived on as a niche ironic caption rather than a front-page format[3]. ## References 1. [https://www.facebook.com/MDE.tv/photos/a.781129358579496.1073741825.180387301987041/781129431912822/?type=3&theater]() 2. [https://halolzmafia.iftopic.com/t117p75-filename-thread]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-weak-should-fear-the-strong]() 4. [https://www.reddit.com/r/milliondollarextreme/comments/2v1ien/did_anyone_save_those_pictures_of_me_choking_the/]() 5. [https://www.funnyjunk.com/Rarest/funny-pictures/5622723/]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/the-weak-should-fear-the-strong Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library