At the same time, the dispute is clearly taking place in an office setting - reflecting the reality that the Teutuls are wealthy business owners and television stars rather than struggling workers. Writing for Vox, Matthew Yglesias writes: 'Part of what makes the meme work is that you don’t actually need to be familiar with the show to read the facial hair and cap as class signifiers. Some of have found the meme has various implications in class, politics and gender. Several media outlets covered the popularity of the meme, including Vice, USA Today, Cnet, Slate, Mashable and more.

On April 10th, Twitter user uploaded a 'twitter friendly' version of the meme featuring the frames side-by-side to shorten the length of the image to comply with Twitter's format. On April 6th, Twitter user posted a recreation of the scene featuring Neon Genesis Evangelion characters (shown below, right), receiving more than 4,100 retweets and 8,700 likes in four days.

On April 4th, 2018 Twitter user posted a version based on a scene from the American television situational comedy Frasier (shown below, center), garnering more than 2,200 retweets and 8,300 likes in six days. On March 31st, 2018, FunnyJunk user lerky posted several variations of the format, including a Prequel Memes version featuring the 'I have the higher ground' meme (shown below, left). A post on /r/MemeEconomy from March 27th, 2018 referencing Garfield gained over 1,600 upvotes (shown below, right).Īs the meme continued to grow in volume of iterations, photoshop variations of the dialogue began appearing, featuring characters from other media franchises superimposed over the original American Chopper template. For example, a Twitter post by referencing the All Women Are Queens meme gained over 14,000 retweets and 47,000 likes (shown below, left). In March of 2018, the format began seeing new popular variations. Over the following several years, there were some variations in the meme, but the majority of posts with the template featured the wholesome edit shown above. Another variation was posted to fuckyeahdementia on December 10th, 2011 (shown below, right). The post gained over 1,400 upvotes (shown below, right). A post to /r/funny on November 24th, 2012 and made the dialogue wholesome gained over 1,300 upvotes (shown below, left).

The scene started becoming an exploitable comic in late 2011. raises issue with Paul Jr.'s tardiness in the morning. In the scene, the Teutuls get into a violent argument after Paul Sr. The scene aired in the first episode of Season 6 of Discovery Channel's American Chopper, 'NHL Bike B2 Bomber Bike,' which aired April 9th, 2009 (shown below).

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