Garfekdi

literally garfeldi
== Origins ==
The possible first ever usage of Garfeldi was on November 4, 2021, at 10:16 AM, on the Software Club. Mike Kachowski posted the raw image randomly in response to Dirty Mike talking about tricycles.
The earliest known use of Garfeldi on the Meme Council was on November 4, 2021, 10:19 AM, in which Meme Lord posted a meme of a death battle template, featuring 100 Omni-man's against Garfeldi. Interestingly, despite saving the original raw Garfeldi image at 2 am on this same day to the Meme Drive, Meme Lord did not post the image until 12/18/2021, where he posted it randomly after his rant against the phrase "this pic goes hard".
Garfeldi would more or less go underground for quite a while, until on February 24, 2022, at 9:12 PM, during a game of Garphic Phone, Mike Kachowski quite literally loses his mind with Garfeldi, posting the image once again, and then adding him to every single drawing in the game, and constantly saying "literally garfeldi". The image reposted however has an interesting frame issue, this making it a false Garfeldi.
This Garphic Phone game, thanks to Mike Kachowski, cemented Garfeldi as a Meme Council joke, and the next day, when another Garphic Phone game took place, the joke only got more deranged. Garfeldi was featured constantly, and nearly every time someone got a prompt involving Garfeldi, they would draw Garfeldi dying somehow, Meme Lord particularly drawing gruesome illustrations of Garfeldi shooting himself. Mike Kachowski even remarked how 4 out of the 8 drawings of a match were all of Garfeldi getting shot. 
After this game, "literally garfeldi" became a staple meme in Meme Council culture, being featured as a Midnight Monday Garf, and being used as an emoji by Megamind whenever "garfeldi" is said. Mike Kachowski even made a video, "1 hour of garfeldi but randomly interjected with colombia", which was listened to in its entirety by memebers during a match of Garphic Phone. 
It didn't help that around this time, Garfeldi became a bigger meme in the wider world, Mark DeCarlo, aka the voice actor of Hugh Neutron himself, even spammed the image 100 times on the Misery Bird App.
== Rise of Garfekdi ==
On 6/11/2022, a Garfeldi mousepad that Mike Kachowski ordered arrives, and it is a bit off to say the least. The artstyle is crisp, noticeably not the original frame of Garfeldi, and, instead of the red text saying "Garfeldi", it states "Garfekdi".
This means that the company, for some reason, ignored the image Mike Kachowski uploaded to be printed onto the mousepad, and decided to, from scratch, make their own version. The HD png file of Garfeldi the company used can be found online, drawn by a random artist, but the company had also seemingly redrawn the background, and finally, they re-added their own text roughly in the same spot as the original, but with a typo and being the wrong shade of red. This truly makes the mousepad a one-of-a-kind. It simply baffles the mind as to why a company that's simply supposed to allow the machine to slap whatever image is uploaded onto a mousepad and then ship it, would go the extra mile and try to recreate the image, and then even create a typo in the process. A theory is that the image was too low quality, and the creators didn't like it. You're probably thinking that copyright issues were the problem, which can be debunked when the following facts are considered: The company in question clearly has no issue using 'copyrighted' images, otherwise, their service wouldn't really ever work and the several customer photos showing their memes and characters from big IP's. The image in itself is a cropped frame with added text and not the original, which also makes it fall under fair use. Honestly there is no logical reason as to why this happened, but the mousepads existence at all is comical to the max, and is a whole new stage of the Garfeldi era.
Meme Lord later asked Mike Kachowski if the amazon page for the item still existed in early 2024, but it was found that the page was completely removed.
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