What is Welcome To The Family, Son?

A Resident Evil 7 scene, and the POV-punch format built from it, in which Jack Baker greets the player with the line and immediately punches the camera.

Where did Welcome To The Family, Son come from?

It first appeared in the bad ending of the Resident Evil 7: Beginning Hour demo on June 13, 2016, then returned in the full game on January 24, 2017.

What does Welcome To The Family, Son mean?

In the game it is Jack Baker claiming the player as part of the Baker clan while knocking them out; in fan edits the line is rewritten so any character can deliver their own bait-and-switch greeting.

How do you use Welcome To The Family, Son?

Creators typically redraw the punch composition with a different character, rewrite the caption to match, and on Pixiv tag the piece Fami-Pan so it sits with earlier entries.

Is Welcome To The Family, Son still popular?

It settled into a long-running template rather than a one-off trend, with the Fami-Pan tag collecting new entries and the original Resident Evil 7 gameplay clips still pulling views as the reference point.

Welcome To The Family, Son

2016catchphrase / POV screen-punch formatclassic

Published November 12, 2026

Welcome To The Family, Son / Screen Punching / POV Punch is a first-person screen-punch moment from Resident Evil 7, where antagonist Jack Baker swings his fist at the camera while greeting the player. The scene debuted in the June 2016 Beginning Hour demo and returned in the January 2017 retail release, and by February 2017 Japanese illustrators were redrawing it as Fami-Pan with characters from Fate/Grand Order and Kemono Friends.

resident evil memes exploitable templates fan art memes japanese internet memes gaming

Overview

Welcome To The Family, Son / Screen Punching / POV Punch pairs a short catchphrase with a very specific visual beat: a bearded man leans into the lens, fist already cocked, and the viewer is the one about to get knocked out1. Capcom shot the sequence in first person so the camera shake, the slur of Jack Baker's voice and the fade to black all land as if the player's own jaw just took the hit2. That built-in POV framing is what let fans lift it out of the game and use it as a blank template.

Derivative posts keep the staging and swap almost everything else. An artist redraws Jack as a character from another series, rewrites the line to fit that character's tone, and the punch reads as a greeting, a confession, or an in-joke about adoption, recruitment or being dragged into a group chat3. On Pixiv the tag Fami-Pan, short for Family Punch, collects these pieces, with Fate/Grand OrderServants and Kemono Friends animal girls among the earliest subjects3.

The joke works because the phrase is friendly and the action is not. Welcome To The Family, Son reads as a warm welcome in text, so pairing it with a fist to the face is the whole punchline, and every remix is a new character delivering that same bait-and-switch.

Gallery

Origin & Background

Platform

Resident Evil 7 (source scene) / Pixiv and Nico Nico Seiga (viral spread)

Date

2016

The scene first appeared in Resident Evil 7: Beginning Hour, the free teaser demo Capcom released on June 13, 2016, where an unnamed protagonist exploring the Baker house gets grabbed by patriarch Jack Baker in the bad ending and punched out as Jack says the line1. Capcom reshot and reused the beat in the full game, Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, released on January 24, 2017, this time with named protagonist Ethan Winters taking the hit in the opening dinner-table sequence2.

Capcom developed and published the game, so the scene itself is not fan-made; the meme format is the POV-punch edits built on top of it by later artists. The earliest known derivative artwork is documented on Nico Nico Seiga and Pixiv in February 2017, though the specific illustrator credited with the first Fami-Pan piece is unconfirmed3.

How It Spread

Western players met the scene twice, first through the Beginning Hour demo in June 2016 and again through the retail release in January 2017, with gameplay uploads of both the demo's bad ending and Ethan's dinner scene circulating on YouTube1 2. English-language reactions leaned on screenshot and GIF edits of the punch itself, often framed alongside the earlier Pepe Punch style of first-person-knockout jokes.

Japanese fan artists picked it up after the full game shipped. From February 2017 onward, illustrators posted redraws on Nico Nico Seiga under the tag お前も家族だ and on Pixiv under ファミパン, starring Fate/Grand Order and Kemono Friends characters in Jack's pose3. The Pixiv shorthand Fami-Pan, an abbreviation of Family Punch, stuck as the Japanese name for the whole format3.

The format aged into a reusable template rather than a single viral spike. New entries show up whenever a fandom wants a POV punch gag, and the Resident Evil 7 clips keep pulling views on YouTube as the reference point newcomers need before the joke lands1.

Timeline

2016-06-13

Capcom releases the Resident Evil 7: Beginning Hour demo, which contains the first version of Jack Baker's punch and greeting in its bad ending.

2017-01-24

Resident Evil 7: Biohazard launches, re-staging the punch with Ethan Winters in the opening dinner sequence.

2017-02

Japanese illustrators post the earliest known Fami-Pan derivatives on Nico Nico Seiga and Pixiv, featuring Fate/Grand Order and Kemono Friends characters.

How to Use This Meme

A typical entry keeps the composition of Jack's swing, a low-ish angle with a fist filling the lower third of the frame and a face above it, and swaps in a different character. Creators often rewrite the caption to suit that character, so a stern mentor might say a loyalty line while a comic-relief figure delivers something absurd. On Pixiv the common convention is to tag the piece Fami-Pan so it lands in the same gallery as earlier entries3.