The meme uses a simple four-panel comic format. In the setup, Asuka approaches Carnage and tries to bait him with the "Candice" joke, a well-known internet prank where the punchline is "Candice [something] fit in your mouth." Instead of falling for it, Carnage responds with a reference to the suicide of Asuka's mother, Kyoko Zeppelin Soryu, who hanged herself during the events of *Neon Genesis Evangelion*1. The humor comes from the extreme escalation and the crossover between two unrelated fictional universes colliding over an internet prank gone wrong.

The lore behind the punchline is central to understanding why it hits so hard. In the anime, Kyoko was a researcher who underwent a Contact Experiment with Evangelion Unit-02, which fractured her psyche1. After being institutionalized and losing the ability to recognize her own daughter, Kyoko committed a "double suicide" by hanging herself alongside a rag doll she believed was Asuka. The real Asuka witnessed the scene1. It's one of the darkest moments in an already grim series, which makes weaponizing it as a comeback against a simple "Candice" joke so jarring and effective.

On January 6, 2022, Instagram user seinpants posted the original four-panel webcomic2. In this version, Asuka asks Carnage, "Hey Carnage, do you know Candice?" Rather than falling for the setup, Carnage responds with "Hey Asuka, do you know a good movie when you see one?" while the fourth panel shows the cover of *Venom: Let There Be Carnage*. The post picked up over 511 likes within a month2. Instagram user spooked_memes.v4 reposted it on January 10, where it gained over 3,000 likes in a similar timeframe2.

The version that actually went viral came on January 25, 2022, when Twitter user jokergunmashups edited the comic to replace Carnage's dialogue with the now-iconic line: "YOUR MOTHER HUNG HERSELF GRAAAAAAAH!!!"2. This edit stripped out the movie reference and went straight for the throat with the *Evangelion* lore, earning over 13,600 likes in three weeks2.