Shrek

Perhaps the most influential figure in both Meme and Meme Council history...I give you, Shrek.
== What is Shrek? What is life? ==
Shrek is an 8-foot ogre who lives in a swamp, who finds love with Fiona, is knighted at one point and eventually becomes the heir to Far, Far Away. He's a gigachad family man however and chose his swamp life over a life of royalty. Based. 
While Shrek is seen by some "people" as just another Dreamworks character, to some he is the greatest fictional character to ever exist and possibly the greatest human invention of all time. There are genuine Shrek weddings and religions centered around this character, and the amount of raw meme energy that he supplies naturally has allowed for a meme count that can run head to head with Spong. Shrek can truly be anyone or anything, or everything. He is everywhere, and one of the most prominent figures on the internet in general. There are no limits to what memes he may show up in, and its all the more impressive to note that the first Shrek movie came out all the way back in 2001.
In the Council, Shrek remains an ever present force, always somewhere, and has truly never died. Those calling him a "dead meme" are braindead. (See what was done there?) Shrek has quite the colorful and advanced history in the Meme Council, and thus this page is gonna be a real lengthy pain to write read. So, take a deep dive, and learn how this green fellow has really stuck himself into the mythos of the Meme Council of Elrond.
== Early Shreginnings ==
Thanks to meme/internet culture in general back in 2016-2018, Shrek was already well-ingrained into Memeber's minds during the early beginnings of the Council. Meme Lord in particular was quite interested as to why the childhood movie character he didn't even like too much was such a sensation, but found it hilarious regardless, and thus, alongside Spong, included him in many memes. Shrek's earliest Council-related 'event' would be back in 8th grade at AHMS, where the class was heading to DC for their field trip. The class was allowed to bring movies for the bus trip, but only one student followed through; Z. Detter, where she brought The Bee Movie, and Shrek. The Shrek bus experience truly was something else, Alex and Meme Lord in particular enjoying it a little too much, not of course ignoring its increased memeyness thanks to the Bee Movie. Shrek 2 was also watched during reading class in 8th grade, Redneck Memer, Alex, Meme Lord and Gillow reacting heavily to this and memeing throughout. 
On the Council itself, the earliest Shrek meme was sent 48 minutes after the Council's recreation, on November 22, 2017, at exactly 2:00PM, by the Meme Lord. The image was followed by the gif the frame was from. The first time "Shrek" was ever said on the Council was on November 29, 2017, at 12:51PM, by Mike Kachowski. This was in response to another early Shrek meme, where the movie's poster stated "From the creators who watched Shrek".
Two minutes later, Sly Frog Fry posts a Shrek meme, a Shrek Forever After poster that happens to have the phrase "What the Shrek just happened?". Its possible this was the first time Shrek was seen as being used as slang. Meme Lord had already started using his "Shrek" slang for years, but it grew more popular during his time at Abington as he was surrounded by foul-mouthed degenerates. Using the slang was more spiteful than anything, a refusal to ever actually swear, and it worked similarly to an f-bomb. (i.e; "what the Shrek", "shrekking", etc) Shrek slang's exact creation date is unknown (best estimate is 2017), but its earliest use on the Council was on 4/17/2018, in a conversation Meme Lord was having with Harley Quinn when making fun of an idiot known as Clayton. Over the years the Shrek slang would grow so popular, that it is now used by nearly every memeber, as well as a majority of people outside the Council. On one such famous occasion, even Rowlands starts using the slang. On May 17, 2019, at 1:58 PM, Rowlands states "Shrek! THESE are your notes?!" he would do this again at a later date, saying "You're so shrekking loud" after a few rather annoying students were screaming about some chromebook game. "Shrekking" was also added to Urban Dictionary by Meme Lord as part of the Urban Dictionary Campaigns, the Rowlands quote being added as an example for a use for the word. 
These historical footnotes are interesting and all, of course, but whats surprising is that the actual first uses of Shrek in Meme Council circles are lost to time. Shrek was in use at least as far back as the AHMS ages, and Shrek slang was possibly invented here as well, its hard to pinpoint. Regardless, theres quite a lot of larger historical Shrek events on the horizon that can be catalogued, but its important to acknowledge how far back Shrek's influence reigns, he did not start out as just another fad, he was always engrained in the lore.
== The Shrennaissance ==
When the Meme Council moved to Discord, Shrek's first mention in the rebuilt Council was a video, posted only 3 minutes after the server's creation, and also the first message sent in the youtube-videos channel. It was Shrek's Fairytale Freestyle. There's enough lore on this video alone to make another wiki page, but perhaps some other time. Shrek had a more powerful, permanent presence in the Discord Council, as now with the power of emojis and roles, he could always be there, right alongside you. And also physically when you were throwing him during the Shrek Bombing Squadrons.
One of the bigger Shrek additions to the Council was its logo. Starting the Class of 2021's Sophomore year and the Council's 2nd year of existence, the logo was updated for the first time, now having a green backdrop, and additionally, Shrek ears. This would prove to be one of the most popular logos in Council history.
Over the Council's history there have been at least 3 different Shrek emojis, the original still being available to this day. A flying Shrek as well as Shrek's nose were also a part of the list, and a Christmas Shrek is still annually swapped in for the holidays. The Council is absolutely obsessed with Shrek at this point, he is perhaps the most-memed individual in the Council at this time, comparable to Garfield and Spong; "Check yourself before you shrek yourself" is sent for the first time around 8/22/2018, and on 9/7/2018, when Meme Lord found a particularly good stretched Shrek image, he added captions on imgflip and created "Wide Shrek", which grew to be, to date, his most popular image meme of all time, now having over 130k views. Wide Shrek is one of the main staples of successful Meme Council memes and was also one of the images slapped onto Warner's locker during Operation Warner Locker.
It was also around this time when the Meme Gauntlet was invented, and of course, the time stone would be rebranded as the "Shrek stone". The physical version of the gauntlet also has this same Shrek stone.
Shrek meme templates for Council use started getting passed around, particularly Meme Lord's "Shrek no" template, and also "Shrek *think*". On 9/12/2018, Meme Lord would also create the earliest Shrek meme with the Shrek slang actually on it, a Shrek Mike Wazowski combo stating to "Shrek off". This era of 2017-2018 was also helpful for pushing Shrek as the flagship icon for "MLG" style memes, and thus an MLG Shrek was sold as part of the Meme Trading era of the Meme Council.
The following month would prove to be one of Shrek's most legendary Meme Council escapades yet. It was in Timothy Jimothy Butler's class where Tino and Meme Lord were partnered to do a plethora of photoshop projects, which would soon become known as the Monsters of Butler-nam. Two of these monstrosities would be Shrek-themed. T-buts loved them so much that he encouraged the use of Shrek in projects. In fact, he apparently loved Shrek himself so much that he used Shrek as his example in the hand-out packet, and laughed quite loudly after seeing Tino and Meme Lord simply put Shreks face behind the visor of the astronaut in a famous moon photograph taken by NASA. Meme Lord hung a photo of Shrek on the ceiling of that class above his desk, but after it was torn down and found on the floor, Meme Lord decided to tape it above Butler's desk instead. It hung there for at least 2 years, Butler moving it up even higher at one point to keep it out of student's reach. Meme Lord's love for Shrek never faltered, and this was shown when he got a life-sized Shrek cardboard cutout, which stood behind him in view of the camera for every virtual class during the virtual learning period of Abington, as well as a one-way Shrek window sticker for his car that covered the entire back window, earning it the nickname "Shrekmobile" by some. 
== The Shrage of Shrenlightenment ==
During Reps physical fitness class was where the infamous Operation Rep Theater took place. After the viewing of Mulan(1998), Carl Wheezer snuck in his vintage VHS copy of Shrek (2001), to be watched on the tv. This tradition continued, and Shrek 2 (2004), Shrek 3 (2007), and Shrek the Halls (2007) were all watched in order, Shrek the Halls being watched due to Christmas break being around the corner. Shrek Forever After (2010) was not watched due to a general hatred towards the film, but Carl Wheezer and others can't help but note that Shrek 3 might be worse. 
Meme Lord would take things yet farther for the 2020 student government elections. Seeing the whole process as a bit of a joke, Meme Lord decided to make his own candidate, and who else to pick then Shrek? The guidance department happened to make a bit of a mistake around this time. In order to let the students advertise via the school gsuite email (to every student), they had to lift their restriction of emailing the entire student body, which had never been done before. Previously you couldn't email more than a certain number of students a time, which would be difficult on its own, seeing as nobody's school gmail was public. However, in one of the student government pamphlets that was emailed, Meme Lord found his key. The student in question had formatted it incorrectly, and while they sent a fixed email, the unknown damage they wrought was already done. The original email had every single Class of 2021 student gmail listed as a recipient, for everyone to read.
Meme Lord would take this and run with it, setting up a fake "Shrek for AHHS President 2020" google account, and making a fake pamphlet, and using a special program to mail the same thing to more than 50+ people, and thus the campaign was sent to over 200 students. Over 87 of them actually opened and read the email. It was a complete success, and the administration never did find out who did it, but the Class of 2021 found it quite humorous. Even Meestur Deeskuh appreciated it after figuring out on his own it as Meme Lord. This would come to be known as the "Shrek Electoral Campaign".
Its worth noting that it was Shrek that brought Meme Lord and The Snazzmaster together, Meme Lord building Shrek out of Java comments for his first assignment, which the Snazzmaster found quite comical. The Snazzmaster proved to have his own love for Shrek, especially on 9/15/2020, when he created Shrek Graph for his Meestur Deeskuh assignment. This would prove to be yet another undying Shrek meme of the Council, and was eventually even incorporated into the Garf Lore, as the evil ai companion of Bready Snazzbear.
Shrek was also why the MegaMeme Pack was created. Mike Kachowski thought of a "terrible idea", a combination of a Ghast and Shrek, a "Shrast", so he put it into the game. This expanded quite a lot since then, several other meme items being added, but eventually so much so that the entire Nether dimension was eventually rebranded the "Shrether". Lava, fire, sounds, ambience, and all mobs were Shrek themed, as well as Netherite being changed to Shretherite when it was added, thus allowing for Shrek armor and tools. To add a nod to Shreks' origins, Ancient Debris was remade into a fossilized copy of the original "Shrek!" book, which Meme Lord owns. Like other MegaMeme Pack aspects, the Shrether was also incorporated into the Garf Lore.
Meestur Deeskuh was also in possession of a Shrek buddhah statue in his class. 
== Shromanticism ==
Shrek today is still quite relevant. Besides NPCS, nextbots, and other horrors being used in GMOD, or being drawn in Garphic Phone, being used in new reaction videos, or the famous event of Shrek being put into the National Library of Congress, Shrek will truly ever die. There really is no way to properly write down the lore of every instance of Shrek's influence, but there is a cool thing called bullet-point lists. Thus;
Over the years one of the most memorable Shrek memes are the video ones, and thus a list will be made here of every Shrek video over the years that has had major influence on the Meme Council.
* What are you doing in my swamp remix
* Shrek's Fairytale Freestyle
* Shrek gets Spooked
* Shrek saves children from Aushwitz
* Da da(not originally from youtube but whatever)
* Bee Movie but every time they say bee Shrek has a vietnam flashback
* Shrek dancing(original taken down)
* Shrek anthem
* Shrek it Ralph
* Shreksophone
* Shrek but entire movie is MIDI
* Shrek's Day Out
* Flying Shrek
* Shrek retold
* Shrek doing the fortnite default dance in front of papa johns
* Shrek opens another dimension
And many, many more, I'm sure you have your own set of Shrek-themed core memories. Shrek truly is one of the things that holds the Council together, and he will truly never die. A saint, a hero, an ogre.
Thankyou, Shrek.
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