Toddroll/You're Finally Awake

2018
Toddroll/You're Finally Awake is a 2018 bait-and-switch copypasta meme where mundane stories suddenly cut to the famous Skyrim opening line "You're finally awake.

Toddroll, also known as You' re Finally Awake and Skyrimroll, is acopypastabait-and-switchmemesimilar to Everybody Walk the Dinosaurwhere the person posting will tell a story and at the end of thei...

Overview

Toddroll, also known as You' re Finally Awake and Skyrimroll, is acopypastabait-and-switchmemesimilar to Everybody Walk the Dinosaurwhere the person posting will tell a story and at the end of their tale will lose consciousness in some way, and when their consciousness returns, they will be in the back of the cart in the beginning cutscene of the video game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, most often accompanied with the lines " Hey, you, you' re finally awake.

How It Spread

Other early iterations of the meme joked about Fallout 76being a secret Skyrimrerelease. For example, a screenshot of a Discord chat posted to Funnyjunkon July 25th made a similar joke, gaining over 537 points. Another popular variation posted about Elder Scrolls VIwas posted to /r/Skyrim Memes, gaining over 340 points. Eventually, the set ups to each punchline began to grow less related to video game s. For example, a Greentext Story posted July 24th, 2018 and reposted to Reddit's /r/Elder Scrolls the same day gained 30 points. Another Greentext Story, posted July 22nd and reposted to /r/greentext the same day, made the story about seeing the sequel to Spider-Man- Homecoming, gaining over 27,700 points in the subreddit.