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The Orc City meme has gone viral on social media getty You might have seen the phrase “Orc City” floating around the internet, along with satirical commentary of orcs and elves—but where did the meme come from? The ‘Orc City’ Meme, Explained It all started on X (Twitter), after indie fantasy author John A. Douglas mocked legendary video game director Hideo Kojima, creator of Metal Gear Solid and Death Stranding. Douglas criticized Kojima’s MGS2 villain, “Fat Man,” writing: “Whenever someone glazes Hideo Kojima, remember he once made a boss character that’s a larda** in a bomb disposal suit riding around on rollerblades and sipping wine from a wine glass with a straw.” Kojima fans quickly bit back, poking fun at the opening paragraphs of Douglas’ book, which contains overused fantasy tropes. In the introduction to his self-published novel, The Black Crown, Douglas describes the destruction of “Orc city,” and the end to the “Orc Wars,” writing: “The Orc city smoldered, burned down in the wake of battle. The ground soaked in a knuckle’s depth of blood and ash. The savage cries of its defenders now silent and still as its ruin was overseen by the architects of its very destruction. The Orc Wars were finally over. ‘There is nothing more reviled than the Orc,’ said the elvish king.” Douglas’ book is a fairly typical example of the kind of writing inspired by decades of Dungeons & Dragons, along with the load-bearing pillar of the fantasy genre, J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. What began as a snarky response quickly snowballed into a meme, as commentators focused on their favorite lines from the book. While many viewed Douglas’ writing as amusingly derivative, his prose sparked something of a creative writing exercise across social media, as X users started inserting Orc…

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