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New meme assignment: Describe yourself in 3 fictional characters

Who are you, in terms of imaginary people created by others?

Jay Hathaway 

Jay Hathaway

Internet Culture

Posted on Sep 19, 2016   Updated on May 25, 2021, 11:38 pm CDT

A new personality test is going around Twitter this week: The game is to “describe yourself in three fictional characters.” Which combination of made-up personality traits speaks to who you really are? Now is the time to consider the question deeply and tweet about it. 

The responses so far range from apparently sincere—

https://twitter.com/LittleFlakyCute/status/777244669910671360

—to probably still sincere but also very clever—

https://twitter.com/moscaddie/status/777915508188471297

—to the characters from your own good video game that you wrote.

https://twitter.com/MammonMachine/status/777916297891815424

Some people are Mirandas/Ilanas (this is definitely a thing):

https://twitter.com/ggunselie/status/775614703934504960

While many, many others are Squidward, Squidward, and just Squidward. Highly relatable. 

https://twitter.com/HollyConrad/status/777524062130085888

This is one of those memes that falls into the category of “games people used to play on LiveJournal 15 years ago.” Certainly it’s fun to think about the relationship between yourself and the media you like: What’s appealing about certain characters? What aspects of yourself do you see in them? 

But it’s 2016 now, so people also love to be self-deprecating, jokeful irony boys. 

https://twitter.com/watermelonshibe/status/777110035146997760

This, by the way, is cheating. Yakko, Wakko, and Dot are like the id, ego, and superego of cartoon characters:

So, who are your three?

https://twitter.com/metswee/status/776906027157499904

https://twitter.com/Sulidaesy/status/777024352353148928

https://twitter.com/huuhkaja/status/777440065370853376

Remember, there’s no partial credit if you turn this assignment in late.

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*First Published: Sep 19, 2016, 4:54 pm CDT

Jay Hathaway

Jay Hathaway is a former senior writer who specialized in internet memes and weird online culture. He previously served as the Daily Dot’s news editor, was a staff writer at Gawker, and edited the classic websites Urlesque and Download Squad. His work has also appeared on nymag.com, suicidegirls.com, and the Morning News.

Jay Hathaway