Gottem

Gottem is the absolute oldest running Meme Council Joke in Meme Council history.
== Origin ==
The very first ok hand emoji ever posted in the Meme Council was done by Alex, on November 28, 2017 at 2:43 PM. The message contained five of them. While the term "gottem" or "got em" had little use before the discord, being said for the first time by Mike Kachowski on December 4, 2017, at 12:40 PM, on the hangout. The earliest ok hand emoji found on the Discord was posted by Redneck Memer, on March 27, 2018, 7:35 PM, five and a half hours after the Discord's creation.
The first use of these features combined, as in, an ok hand and gottem being used together, was on Janurary 23, 2019, at 8:17 AM, by the Meme Lord, in response to an ok hand meme of the same nature posted by Spooderman the No u King.
While it would seem the very first ever "gottems" done, in person, are obviously lost to time, they have been in use since at least 8th grade at AHMS, but gottems would not see a major use in the Council until Sophomore year, beginning on March 20, 2019:
=== The Gottem Wars ===
So began the Gottem wars. The circle game was already an ongoing thing during our time at Abington Heights High School, but memebers Mike Kachowski, Snazzmaster, and Meme Lord, sought to take it even further. This would be the first time Gottems were used against each other rapid fire, whether that be using spoiler tags, images, videos, ascii art, you name it. It was a back and forth battle between the three parties. Some even changed their usernames or profile pictures for this joke.
This is where escalation really took its toll, the joke had to keep being one-upped, how else could we gottem each other? It began to happen in-person constantly, especially during Jones' class, where the three shared CS class in. It was here, on the very next day, that Mike Kachowski created The Gottem Chat, inviting Meme Lord and the Snazzmaster to it. This was by far the most powerful gottem done in the war for a while.
The joke would only get worse and worse from here. Entire walls of gottems were sent, gifs, reactions, the three gottem-warriors non stop for days on end trying to gottem each other. At this point, all three memebers have gottems as part of their usernames, the Snazzmaster becoming the The Sn👌zzmaster, Mike Kachowski becoming Mike Kach👌wski, and Meme Lord becoming 👌 The Meme Lord 👌. Snazzmaster even adopts an ok hand pfp, to stay for a while. At this point, "gottem" is even being sent as "g👌ttem". Meme Lord begins adding gottems to his poorly drawn garf's, which were rising in popularity at the time. Besides occasional small supporting fire by Redneck Memer and The Rare Meme Lord of Cinder, this war is still fought solely by the three gottem warriors.
At this point the gottemers are getting quite paranoid. Mike Kachowski in particular turns off notifications to avoid the gottems. On 4/2/2019, The Snazzmaster wrote an entire program just to convert o's to 👌's. He takes it further by posting the Bee Movie script with every O replaced by 👌. 
And on 4/14/2019, the most incredible gottem of all time occurs. During the middle of class, during Tech Article presentations, in between presentations, The Snazzmaster suddenly launches his pencil to the middle of the class. The moment the pencil left his hand, Mike Kachowski and Meme Lord already knew what was coming and could barely contain themselves. The Snazzmaster, barely able to control himself at well says "oops I dropped my pencil", as he walks to the middle of the class, and, doing a gottem, picks up his pencil. Jones, not having any idea what was goin on, did not question the event after Snazzmaster sat down, but seemed to understand after seeing the involved parties reactions.
The war, which has been ongoing for a month now, starts to wane a bit. Gottems are still a daily occurrence, often done in person as the gottemers pass each other in the hall, or on THE bus, but by the month of May, a gottem is a weekly joke on the Council. But what the war spawned...
=== A new age ===
On May 4, 2019, Mike Kachowski does something, that would change the course of Meme Council history. Stating to Meme Lord that he had an improved gottem. He then sends a gif of sans. Meme Lord states that 'thats not a gottem, thats just sans'. Mike Kachowski feigns a correction and sends the sans gif again, and then makes it clear: "it was never a mistake", and then sends sans a third time.
While this may seem irrelevant to you, this was actually the very first time gottem that transitioned into something that wasn't an ok hand, AKA, the first time sans was used for the same format by Mike Kachowski. True, this doesn't have much to do with gottems in itself, but it was this joke that eventually led to the use of My Ride From Outer Space, and Hugh Neutron Out of Touch.
== Legacy ==
Gottems were permanently engrained into Meme Council culture after this war, often included into memes until this very day. Some other notable gottems include The Ultimate Gottem, a giant png converted gottem on a Block Game server paired with My Ride From Outer Space, and Draw-A-Gottem, a wall of gottems hidden behind individual spoilers, similarly to bubble wrap, so pictures could be drawn on it, created by Meme Lord on 9/25/2019.
At the beginning of Junior year, in 2019, Meme Lord drew a gottem on Sharrow's chalkboard, along with the text "gottem" on a segregated part that was walled off from the rest of the board. Meme Lord figured the janitor wouldn't bother getting to it, and Sharrow wouldn't mind either. Shockingly, Sharrow never erased it, and by January, Meme Lord got a picture of it using the Meme Bible. By the start of senior year, Meme Lord had to see if it was still around, and sure enough, it remained, untouched. When Meme Lord entered to inspect it, Sharrow claimed he was waiting for Meme Lord to return some day, and explained he had never touched it and planned to never erase it. Sure enough, it lasted until the end of Senior year as well. And it didn't end there. According to reports in 2021-2022, Sharrow STILL has the gottem on his board, to this day, making it a 3-year old gottem. Hopefully it will never die...
Unfortunately, it was reported by Tactician on 9/15/2022, that the Sharrow gottem had been removed. Sharrow himself was not the culprit, and it is expected that a janitor finally spotted it and cleaned it, or perhaps a cringe student.
Today, Gottem has been said nearly 1,000 times on the Council, and of course, gottems have been done likely many more times in real life. They aren't going anywhere, and nothing, not even cringe groups calling them a """hate symbol""" is gonna stop them.
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