You guys all know the meme "copium", right?
It represents a person who is coping about something by inhaling a gas named "copium" from a gas tank. This is clearly a play on the words "cope" and "helium", right? It's meant to be a helium gas tank. Right?
Well not according to the internet. According to the internet, it's meant to be "opium". Opium? What?
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/copium
Blend of cope (“delusion, coping mechanism”) + opium. First cited usage points back to the album entitled Copium released by American rapper Keak da Sneak in 2003. The term was popularized in 2020 by a reaction image of Pepe the Frog hooked up to a tank labeled "copium".[1] Sometimes reanalyzed as cope + -ium.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/copium
Copium is a portmanteau of the words "cope" and "opium" used to describe a fictional drug to help one deal with loss. It is frequently used in a meme featuring Pepe the Frog hooked to an oxygen tank labeled "copium."
https://www.wikihow.com/Copium-Meaning
“Copium” is a combination of “cope” and “opium” often used to tell someone that they're in denial about something.
Are these people insane? Literally 99.99% of all variations of this meme involve inhaling copium from a gas tank. You don't inhale opium from a gas tank. You smoke opium in the backroom of a Chinese brothel. Did Mr. da Sneak's album Copium talk about opium so this somehow got mixed up, or do people say it's opium simply because the word copium includes opium?
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it's neither helium nor opium it's just copium: a fictional chemical element of which cope is made.
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Me and the lads partaking in copium (that's
@X lighting the pipe)
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pay up crackkkka
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More like pay up chink-chonk
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lude
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i thought -ium was just a suffix for some elements
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yeah I find it hard to believe the meme had anything to do with some rapper from 2003
just an attempt to steal credit from whytey and give it to a kang
"obamium"
for instance has been around for a while too. it's a play on the generic -ium element name ending
implying some new element entirely
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You're saying rap album in 2003, 17 year gap, then 4chan post in 2020 isn't plausible?
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You're overthinking this. Everyone else has thought it was a play on "opium". They're just not so neurodivergentally literal that the fictional "copium" must be smoked in the same way opium was.
You could draw the pepe cooking it on a spoon, putting it in pill form, or with an IV drip and everyone would get it. In fact I'm pretty sure I've seen some of those pepes.
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It's copium not celium
Opium kills the pain, helium just kills you
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Not true, it also gives you a funny voice
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there were those kids who went inside a big tent or something filled with helium till they died lol
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It's obviously both - first cope + opium, then the visual meme misinterpreting it for comedic effect
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Not reading all that 😎
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insane? no
stupid? definitely
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i don't.
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AUAAAAAAAAUUUUUUGHHHHHHHHHHH
STOP POSTING ABOUT BIMOTHY. IM TIRED OF SEEING IT. MY FRIENDS ON RDRAMA POST BIMOTHYS ON MY PROFILE WALL, ON GROOMERCORD ITS "HI IM BIMOTHY". IM IN THIS PING GROUP RIGHT? ALL OF THE PINGS WERE JUST BIMOTHY POSTS. I SHOVED MY GIRLFRIENDS (MALE) GENIS IN MY BUTT AND I SAID HAHAHA HI IM BIMOTHY HAHAHA DING DING DING DING DING. I FRICKING WENT TO CLASS TODAY AND WAS TOLD TO INTRODUCE MYSELF AND SAID HI IM BIMOTHY. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHGESFG !BIMOTHY
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Copium is a gateway drug to others such as estrogen and testosterone.
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Helium?!
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codeine + opium duh
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