![]() Prior to 2021, the song has been used in more similar memes posted on YouTube. On January 15th, 2015, YouTuber Iceberger posted a modded cutscene from Saints Row IV with Senator Armstrong edited in, with the video accumulating over 1.3 million views in seven years (shown below, right). For example, on April 10th, 2014, YouTuber NotTimWakefield paired a fighting scene from Star Trek fighting scene with the song, with the video gaining over 189,600 views in eight years (shown below, left). The song has been used as source material for memes at least since April 2014, primarily being used to accompany various fighting scenes. The song was composed by Jamie Cristopherson & Logan Mader and features vocals by Jimmy Gnecco. The song is heavily associated with the fight scene and with the Raiden Punching Armstrong meme (music audio shown below). While the song "Standing Here I Realize," better known by its first lyric "Standing Here I Realize," does not appear during the quick time event, it appears later in the fight against Senator Armstrong. "It Has to Be This Way" / "Standing Here I Realize" The video received more than 723,000 views in 10 months (shown below). On March 14th, 2021, YouTuber Rad Dude uploaded another version of the video caption, now paired with the song "It Has to Be This Way" (better known by its first lyric "Standing Here I Realize") from the game's soundtrack. The post gained over 2,300 retweets, 15,300 likes and 113,500 views in one year (shown below). ![]() On March 12th, 2021, gimmick Twitter account reposted a video caption meme based on ElliotRogerisAllah's post, with the GIF caption now paired with the final theme Mario and Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story. In the following weeks, an unknown user paired the GIF caption with the final theme Mario and Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, with the video caption going viral in early March on Discord. ![]() On February 20th, 2021, iFunny user ElliotRogerisAllah posted a GIF caption meme based on the GIF, speeding it up and captioning it, "Cyberbullies trying to bully me after I turn off the computer." The post gained over 80 smiles in one year (shown below). On June 4th, 2018, Twitter user posted the GIF to Twitter, captioning it, "When you start putting down money on student loans in small weekly payments." The post received 26 retweets and over 100 likes in three years. For example, on July 22nd, 2015, Pikabu user raf996 posted the GIF, captioning it, "when you're fighting your older brother." The post gained nearly 590 upvotes on the site. Prior to February 2021, the scene saw a minor presence in memes online. The final boss fight of the game, a duel between the protagonist Raiden and the main villain Senator Armstrong, included a quick-time event in which Raidens rapidly punches Armstrong in the stomach to zero effect (scene shown below). On February 19th, 2013, the hack-and-slash video game Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, a spin-off installment in the Metal Gear series, was released.
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