
The original meme “He Protec, But He Also Attac” originated in November 2016 from an image with a naked man who holds a light sword from “Star Wars”. With the help of him, a conditional enemy is denoted, which can not only protect, but also attack.
In addition, the expression “He Protec, But He Also Attac” is intentionally written with errors, in the correct option it will be like this: “He Protects, But He ALSO Attacks”. The image on his Instagram was published by the user under the nickname @fijichecks.

In February 2017, images with a toy cow and a cat “Cat in a hat” of 2003 began to disperse on the Internet.


Judging by the Google Trends schedule , the meme began to recruit the most popular in June-July 2017. At the same time, on the 4Chan forum, variations of pictures with the signature “He Protec, but he also attac” appeared in March.


The authors of the pictures sometimes moved away from the original phrases and changed the meaning of the meme.




Before Russia, the phrase “He Protec, But He Also Attac” reached in April 2017, judging by the notes on VKontakte.
In May-June, the meme is widespread and began to be used for any reason.


Including on VKontakte and Twitter.
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