# Roll Safe

> Imgflip estimated 345,500 captions of the temple-tapping bad-advice meme.

- Owner: null
- Kind: Meme & format
- Sector: Culture (no sector)
- Seed date: 2016-11-15
- Peak date: Week of Feb 1, 2017
- Date basis: Dates use the stated precision; chart positions are date anchors.
- Spread Score: 50 (Notable, provisional), v1.2
- Mechanics: Remixable template, Creator relay, Platform jump, Press loop, Pairing

## Summary

A January caption preceded February explainers. A Reddit identification question sent readers back to the creators’ YouTube channel. Nintendo NY then substituted Mario for Ewumi while retaining the gesture and self-defeating advice, showing another way to recreate it.

## Timeline

- 2016-06-01 — BBC Three (YouTube) — BBC Three published Happy Belated, the episode containing the temple-tapping frame.
- 2016-11-15 — @FootyHumour (X) — Footy Humour paired the screenshot with a joke about starting an argument to play FIFA.
- 2017-01-22 — @trapafasa (X) — Paired the screenshot with a joke about fewer anti-men tweets as February approached, according to KYM.

The full timeline, metrics and sources are on the case page, or via the Pro API (https://howitspread.com/developers).

Canonical URL: https://howitspread.com/cases/roll-safe

Cite as: How It Spread (2026). “Roll Safe.” Case HIS-00484. Spread Score v1.2: 50/100. Updated 2026-10-14. https://howitspread.com/id/HIS-00484