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Having a large fandom spanning multiple social media platforms, the Life series has been the source of many memes across the Minecraft Multiverse.
Note: Unless otherwise specified, all tropes pertain to the characters, not the content creators that play them.
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- The meme. [[note]]The explanation behind the meme, if not already part of the description.[[/note]] note Like this.
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- "She sells seashells on the seashore…" ExplanationThis edit
set to the seashell rap from "Money Game, Part 2" by Ren (not the Life series creator and Hermit) has been commonly associated with Scar since 3rd Life for his businessman persona, and is reblogged every Saturday by the fandom on Tumblr in honour of "Seashell Scar Saturday". - Canary in a Coal Mine. ExplanationAfter Jimmy dies first in Last Life as well as 3rd Life before it, some fans joked that he was 'the canary in a coal mine' and him being Killed Off for Real is a Portent of Doom which signifies the moment everything starts hitting the fan. It has sunk into fanon iconography as a "curse" by Double Life where he dies first again, is alluded to in Limited Life when he dies first again, and is outright referenced by cc!Jimmy himself in Minecraft SOS as a Mythology Gag.
- November 16th. ExplanationThe finale of Season 2 went up on November 16th, 2021. This happened to also be the one-year anniversary of the Manburg-Pogtopia War on the Dream SMP, an event so significant that it's most commonly referred to as just "November 16th" in its fanbase. Dream SMP fans made a lot of jokes about "passing the torch", and fans of both Dream SMP and Last Life made plenty of memes about having brand new reasons to panic on November 16th.
- The Whoreslut Survey. ExplanationA post-Last Life, Tumblr-based poll where fans determined which character were the most "slutty" or "whorish", with custom definitions of the two words — the former referring to partaking in actions because It Amused Me as opposed to for long-term goals, and the latter referring to "committing indecent acts specifically for personal gain, perhaps financial in nature". The poll results find that the most "slutty" character is Grian, the most "whorish" is Scar (by a huge percentage), the least of both is Mumbo, and the most of both is (narrowly) Scott. Funnily enough, the title of "Whoreslut Supreme" outlasts the poll because of cc!Scott's tendency to say... extraordinarily questionable (and at times NSFW) things on main.
- The straight representation we all needed. ExplanationJune is designated as Pride Month in the US, and is also the month when Double Life was first released. Fans quickly note that the infamously dysfunctional Divorce Quartet, consisting of the only different-gender soulmate pairs in the season, involves 3/4 of the content creators being queer. Since old-fashioned straight couples are stereotyped to have an Awful Wedded Life, fans immediately start drawing comparisons to this to either comment on the irony of the situation or poke fun at cishet people, while contrasting how the most functional soulmates are all same-gender pairs… portrayed by presumed-cishet content creators.
- Darth Pearl. ExplanationYouTube user End Ward is known for making "Life series as Vines" memes since Double Life; in each session's video, Pearl is edited into the Vine where a Darth Vader figurine plays the piano and sings "'Cause I miss you and I need you", directed at anything she may have lost or lacked during her episodes. Every session.
- Grian, your Watcher side is showing. Explanation ("Eyes and Ears" lore)On Day 1 of Limited Life, Grian has the Boogeyman curse rerolled twice since the first two Boogeymen got their kills minutes if not seconds after the announcement. He lays the blame on the curse victims in question because they "ruined the suspense of this episode" [sic], and makes a snarky comment about "the rules". Since Grian is confirmed two seasons prior to be a Watcher, these quotations has attracted fan jokes that this is Watcher behaviour manifesting as petty reality-warping and his true nature as one is showing. It likely helps that the Watchers of Evo were originally conceived as a representation of the viewers, who would make comments like this on the 'narrative' even when there wasn't supposed to be one.
- Etho is washed up. ExplanationA famous conversation in Limited Life led to Etho jokingly exclaiming he is "washed up". Both the creators and the fandom (affectionately) latched onto this, with the creators spreading it into future seasons and even Hermitcraft. Expect to hear it whenever Etho fails at something.
- Big B gaslights everyone. ExplanationThroughout Secret Life, Big B has continuously and regularly lied to and gaslit other server-members over his strange actions, leading to much fan speculation... and many memes, as demonstrated by a few compilations cc!Jimmy reacts to on stream.
- Etho's Dishwasher. ExplanationIn Secret Life, two task-relevant mobs have been named this — Etho's Warden on Day 6 and Grian's pet magma cube on Day 7. Among them, Grian's pet magma cube has instantly become a fan favourite Ensemble Dark Horse and is subjected to a plethora of memes.
- The Life series in real life. ExplanationThroughout much of the run-time of the series, fans have joked about the creators hosting a real-life season of the SMP where the creator-characters get to hunt each other down and kill each other in Real Life. For obvious ethical and logistical reasons, it's nigh-impossible for this to come into fruition, but the April Fools' one-off Real Life season was released in 2024 as a VR-based season.
- Scar wins Real Life. ExplanationOne of the most common fanon elements for the joke real-life season is cc!Scar running over people in his off-road wheelchair.
