User:Quaelegit/Charles Royal Portrait memes

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https://www.today.com/popculture/news/king-charles-portrait-meaning-symbolism-rcna152431 -- this has been generating a lot of buzz and memeing online

Redraw meme

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Link credit Fandom character notes
Thorn's Royal Portrait, Archived version Erin Ptah Leif and Thorn Thorn
Commissioned by Durge, Orin was surprisingly excited about it. alt link alt link 2 kawareo Baldur's Gate 3 Enver Gortash
Looking absolutely dreadful my monstrous monarch~ lysall_art Baldur's Gate 3 Durge
untitled chaoticdesertdweller Count Chocula more of an edit than a redraw
you cannot comprehend the true nature of king charles’ attack [alt link] mpdqueer
and abeth-zuppa
Earthbound more of an edit than a redraw: framing Charles as a boss in an earthbound attack screen.
untitled alt link wee-toe Ghostbusters II Vigo the Carpathian more of an edit than a redraw -- digital manip that combines the portrait with one from the fandom.
Pankrator Charles alt link Xisuthrus KSBD Jagganoth edit of a comic page rather than a redraw
#why did i make this#sad to report that painting of british parasite goes hard af#especially if you look at it from ironic perspective of “he's covered in blood of the british empire” alt link stivkun Disco Elysium King Charles III finally back on the *redraw* part of redraw meme; this is the portrait redraw(/digitally painted) to fit as a character in the game.
untitled Reddit link S2R2 Dark Souls Dark souls boss battle edit
I was avoiding doing actual work this afternoon and, well... iambarelysushi Hellblazer Hellblazer cover edit
love the official portrait of king charles III it's very regal and normal looking alt link inber Silent Hill 3 Silent Hill 3 scene edit
A week late but this came to me in a vision. tremere-suggest Vampire: The Masquerade VTM video game scene edit. Posted 20 May 2024

Unveiling Meme

I don't have any examples handy but people have also been photoshopping the unveiling video to reveal other images. I haven't seen any "fandom" ones yet so i'd call this more of a general/news meme.

Other

  • fandom ~about~ the portrait??? e.g. A better King Charles the Third Royal Portrait that someone created on MidJourney
  • there's also a fair amount of, like, Actual Art Criticism of the portrait and its symbolism and discussion of the artist's intentions, Charles' involvement, whose vision contributed how to the final result. idk whether to include that in "fandom about the portrait".... like when it's today.com (as i linked at the top of this page) I wouldn't count it, but for random people posting to tumblr (ex1, ex. 2, ex 3).... maybe?
We know Charles & Yeo discussed the portrait, so I don't think it is implausible that, during the brainstorming process, Yeo asked Charles what kind of look he wanted. I work as an illustrator, I have done many portraits, and that's like, step one of any commission. So as much as I love the narrative of a subversive artist getting one over on the Royals- and as a commission, no less!- I think it is much more likely Yeo followed Charles' requests. Charles did see a preview of the portrait before the public reveal; he knew what it looked like.


Which makes the public reaction WAAAAAAY FUNNIER.

personally i absolutely agree with this person

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  • also idk if we have a page about... fandom... anti fandom?? .... criticism of british royal monarchy fandom but found this art response to QE2's death (posted September 2022)