Can’t stop the #Millenials
Atlus may have effectively banned in-depth streaming forPersona 5, but that won’t stop people from turning arguably the most anticipated JRPG of the last few years into a meme machine.
In the few days since the game’s release, in fact, the game’s gone so viral you’d think no sharing features were disabled at all, if not for the phone-quality screenshots most folks are forced to take. For my money, people taking photos of their TVs makes me feel almost nostalgic for the days before every piece of hardware we played on came with built-in recording and sharing tools.
Anyway, we’ve also taken a tiny sampling of some of our favorite #content, arranged for your convenience below.
A warning: I’ve tried to remove all plot spoilers from the roundup, though the truly spoiler-sensitive may want to shy away if they absolutely don’t want to see anything from the game proper.
Persona 5allows players to come up with their own names for their group of thieves, so naturally, people went clowning around with that stuff:
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— Persona ebooks (@Persona_ebooks)July 30, 2025
OH NO I WAS HALF ASLEEP WHEN I NAMED MY GROUP AND I FORGOT ABOUT THISpic.twitter.com/hXrIwLnaP0
— Gredlen (@Gredlen)Jul 23, 2025
Others continued to harp on the game’ssomewhat controversial localization, matching some of the clangers with the many expressions of Vince McMahon:
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— Yokelization (@ritobito)July 24, 2025
And still others had a bit of fun comparing the happy-go-lucky tone ofPersona 4withPersona 5‘s edgy atmosphere:
Persona 4: Lets hang out at the mall and solve mysteriesPersona 5: Lets emotionally annihilate every adult from the inside out.
— Fujoshi’s Island (@Dauragon)June 21, 2025
When u make bad choices and stay up too late vs when u wake up the next morningpic.twitter.com/84OfmkE1wx
— Toppie (@TopHatting)Jun 08, 2025
Of course, the above bits are more “viral” than outright memetic, by some measures, in which case one of the more versatile bits of culture to emerge fromPersona 5‘s debut is how folks have latched onto its sense of style. The game’s absurdly busy UI and battle interface were quickly extracted by intrepid fans, and applied to all manner of situations:
for anybody that wants to use this, here you go
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— Brent (@Brento_Bento)July 14, 2025
Every time I play Persona 5 I can’t help but think of thispic.twitter.com/BegKbLhxTY
— Tristan Cooper (@TristanACooper)July 25, 2025
I remember when@yokotarosaid that Persona would kill Nier. But I think they go together quite nicely!#Persona5#NieR#NierAutomatapic.twitter.com/z7E4WPhovI
— Glory to Marchekind (@Marche100)July 31, 2025
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— Erica June (@aurahack)Jun 04, 2025
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— Ryan E.O. Speedwagon (@RyGuy176)June 30, 2025
And that’s just a small fraction of the sheer volume of stuff excited gamers are putting out. If you’ve got a few favorites, share ’em with us for yuks and chuckles, why don’t you?
