User yllsnow2 posted these pictures on Reddit this week, explaining that his friend was drunk and on Xanax when he decided to tattoo a Charmander on himself with no experience or artistic ability.
Of course, it's not clear what he was trying to do, but many have pointed out his Charmander looks a lot like a "Tim Burton Pokémon" by the artist Vaughn Pinpin, or Hat Boy.
The tattoo started getting really popular for some reason though. Then it was digitized and printed on a water bottle.
Then this guy made a shirt of the tattoo, the digitized version, AND the water bottle.
And someone else put a photo of the water bottle on a bag of coffee.
There's a plushie...
A statue...
A wood burning...
A needlepoint...
And a vinyl necklace...
That's currently on eBay with a bid of $75.00.
Two different people have turned "Shitty Charmander" — or Shartmander — into nail art.
Someone even built what it would look like if you could play as Shartmander in the game.
One Reddit user even set up an online store where you can put Shartmander on anything you want.
But what about the original Shartmander tattoo guy? According to his friend on Reddit, "He's loving every second of it," yllsnow2 wrote. "Won't shut up about it really but the internet isn't either."
BuzzFeed has reached out to the Reddit user to ask him how his friend is handling his newfound fame.
Pinpin, the closest thing to Shitty Charmander's originator, has tweeted about his sort-of-drawing's new memehood:
I hope I didn't inadvertently give birth to the second dickbutt. I saw how that monster Frankensteined on KC Green. Oof.
This just in: dumb kids did a dumb thing and everyone's laughing about it in the cesspool that is reddit. This is news!
I'm getting emails asking for interviews because of a silly meme. What happened to us, humanity?
Are we trying to revive the meme-culture from like years ago??? I don't think I've seen a meme used as a reply or something in a while.
Why????
What's funny is that those Tim Burton Pokemon have been tattooed pretty badly on many people before yet those guys didn't achieve meme-hood.