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We Left The Percs

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Published October 8, 2026

We Left The Percs, also known as Fuck You Mean We Left The Percs, is a catchphrase that emerged on iFunny in late September 2019 after a video meme reversed footage of a space shuttle launch to mock the horror of leaving Percocet behind. The format grew into a reliable reaction template for every global crisis that followed, from COVID lockdowns to the Suez Canal jam and the war in Ukraine.

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Overview

We Left The Percs, also written as Fuck You Mean We Left The Percs, works as a shouted punchline over footage of something leaving fast or going catastrophically wrong3. The joke frames the loss of Percocet as a geopolitical emergency, with the speaker reacting in panic once they realize the pills are now stranded in orbit, in Wuhan, in Kiev, or wherever disaster footage happens to be set7.

The format usually pairs white Impact-font captions with disaster or crisis video: a rocket launch, a cruise ship ramming a dock, soldiers parachuting out of a plane, a bus swerving across a highway6. The still-image variant swaps the video for a photo of Joe Biden or George W. Bush on the phone, framing them as the one being told the pills are gone12. The humor leans on the gap between the triviality of lost drugs and the scale of the event depicted3.

Origin & Background

Platform
iFunny (origin) / Reddit and Instagram (viral spread)
Date
2019

The origin video is unattributed, but it circulated on iFunny in late September 2019 as a reversed clip of a space shuttle launch, with top and bottom Impact captions reading "Fuck You Mean We Left The Percs"3. The anchor date is September 28, 2019, based on a tweet by @MrSpike420 using the phrase that day1, with Google Trends showing a search spike the following day3.

The earliest known reposts both hit the web on October 2, 2019: the channel Straight up Just cheefin mirrored the video to YouTube, where it drew about 16,000 views over three years2, and the Instagram page @i_paint_liquor_cabinets reposted it the same day11. The same day, Redditor Forsaken_EGG shared a variant to /r/HistoryMemes, though that post stalled at a single upvote after the linked YouTube clip was pulled for community guidelines8.

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How It Spread

The video found a bigger audience on October 4, 2019, when Redditor hisvalkyrie reposted it to /r/PlayboiCarti, where it pulled roughly 2,400 upvotes4. Instagram meme page @chocobleach ran two riffs the next week, pairing the caption with a cruise ship crashing into a port on October 13 (about 3,200 likes) and with soldiers deploying out of an aircraft on October 14 (about 2,300 likes)5.

The template was pulled back out for every subsequent news cycle. On January 29, 2020, @original4ofus posted a Wuhan-themed version using a clip of Walter White sprinting in a hazmat suit, which earned about 9,300 likes6. iFunny user Huzlip applied the format to the Ever Given blockage with a Suez Canal post on March 24, 20219, and user Bodark did the same for the Taliban's return to Kabul on August 15, 202110.

The biggest mainstream moment came on February 12, 2022, when Twitter user @peetsahboy captioned a photo of Joe Biden on the phone with "FUCK YOU MEAN WE LEFT THE PERCS IN KIEV?!" as Russia massed troops on the Ukrainian border, drawing roughly 30,500 likes in two weeks7. By that point the catchphrase was reliably attached to any news story about something being stuck somewhere it should not be3.

Timeline

2019-09-28

Twitter user @MrSpike420 posts the earliest dated use of the phrase, anchoring the origin date[1].

2019-10-02

YouTube channel Straight up Just cheefin and Instagram page @i_paint_liquor_cabinets both repost the original iFunny space-shuttle video[2][11].

2019-10-04

Redditor hisvalkyrie reposts the video to /r/PlayboiCarti, where it hits roughly 2,400 upvotes[4].

2019-10-13

@chocobleach on Instagram posts a cruise-ship-crash version, earning about 3,200 likes[5].

2020-01-29

@original4ofus posts a Wuhan COVID-19 edit with a Walter White hazmat clip, earning about 9,300 likes[6].

2021-03-24

IFunny user Huzlip applies the format to the Ever Given Suez Canal blockage[9].

2021-08-15

IFunny user Bodark posts a version referencing the Taliban offensive in Afghanistan[10].

2022-02-12

Twitter user @peetsahboy posts the Biden-in-Kiev version, drawing about 30,500 likes amid the Russia-Ukraine buildup[7].

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