Alright, let me walk you through exactly how I scrambled to get this Aegon meme out there fast yesterday. Real talk, it got pretty messy figuring out where to throw it.
First Moves: Throwing Stuff at the Wall
Right after I finished the meme – some crappy edit of this character looking extra smug – my first instinct was the usual suspects. I opened Blue Bird app. Pasted it real quick. Stuffed the caption with every related hashtag I could cram in: AegonTVShowName, HotDMemes, DragonsRule, FunnyEdits. Hit post. Felt decent.
Went straight to Square Pic App next. Figured, visuals rule there, right? Uploaded it. Wrote some half-hearted caption like “When you inherit a mess #AegonProblems”. Added tags: GameOfThronesMemes, TargaryenHumor, TVShowFunny. Posted. Done.
Then I thought, “Dude, gotta hit the big video places too.” Took the meme image and slapped it onto a beat I found that kinda fit. Made a quick 15-second slide in this Reel Shorts app. Kept the caption dead simple: “New Aegon meme dropping! Thoughts?”. More hashtags: #MemeReview, #ViralEdit, #AegonTheConquerorMemes. Fired it off. Felt exhausted already.
The “Oh Crap” Moment & Pivoting
Sat back, grabbed a soda, waited… and crickets. Like, zilch. Scrolled through other feeds. Saw a ton of generic meme pages posting the same tired stuff. My new one? Buried deep somewhere. Probably already lost.
Started panicking slightly. This meme felt fresh, gotta move fast. So I went hunting. Ducked into this huge fan forum I vaguely remember lurking in ages ago about the show. Their meme section was BOOMING! Like, constant updates. Made an account quick – username was probably something dumb like “DragonDude42” – and tossed my Aegon meme into the main chaos thread with a simple “Hey, fresh Aegon meme. Roast me.”
Then remembered this niche TV Show Fan Hub, specifically for these dragon shows. Not massive, but people there are rabid. Searched “Aegon” in their image channel. Bingo! Uploaded my guy, titled it “Smug Aegon Strikes Again?”. Just left it there.
As a last desperate Hail Mary, I found a couple of specific HotD Discord servers. Didn’t even say hi. Just dumped the meme image into the most active general chat channels with “🔥?” and vanished. Honestly felt kinda spammy, but hey.
What Actually Blew Up (Surprise!)
Checked Blue Bird and Square Pic first thing next morning. A few pity likes from mutuals. My buddy Dave commented “lol” on the pic app. That was it. The Reel Shorts video? Lost to the algorithm void.
But then I opened that big fan forum. Whoa. My post had like 150 replies? People were arguing about Aegon’s hair, quoting the meme, someone even remixed it. Pure chaos. That “roast me” invite totally worked.
Jumped over to the nicer TV Show Fan Hub. Dozens of upvotes! Someone pinned it temporarily in the channel! Comments like “Spot on!” and “This is so Aegon energy omg.”
The real kicker? One of the Discord servers. Went back to that channel I dumped in. Notifications blowing up. People used the meme as a reaction image all over the place, arguing in character. My dumb image became server shorthand for smugness overnight.
My Takeaway? Ditch the Main Streams Sometimes
- Big apps are noise factories. Unless you got massive followings or pay cash, your stuff sinks unless it’s instant fire.
- Forget ‘viral’ hopes fast. Chase the actual nerds who care deeply.
- Find the specific caves where fans huddle. Big general forums > tiny niche sites > random discords IF they’re topic-locked. Beat the bushes.
- Timing is everything, but luck is king. Posted late evening US time when forum activity peaked. Pure dumb luck it caught on.
- Engage bait works. That “roast me” probably got way more traction than just posting silently.
Would I repeat the main app spam? Nah. Waste of juice next time. Straight to the fan dens for me. Lesson painfully learned!