On August 26th, 2017, Discord user posted the earliest known variant of the meme in the JabGood server ... On July 27th, Redditor mijuzz7 used Thumbs Up Crying Cat in a captioned post to r/dankmemes ...

A recent post on X by @TheAniTalk has revealed a snippet of the preview for the next issue of Shonen Jump, which is, Issue 28 ...

As the situation in Elbaf spirals down, the Straw Hats are holding their own against the villains without Luffy's help.