This used to be a joke Fortnite crossover meme

This used to be a joke

The meme features bold text at the top reading "This used to be a joke" above a screenshot from the game Fortnite, set in a desert area in front of the Station 99 gas station location. Four playable character skins are lined up on Fortnite spawn pads: an upside-down hanging Spider-Man from Marvel, the kaiju Godzilla, Peter Griffin from the animated sitcom Family Guy, and Goku from the Dragon Ball anime franchise. The humorous point of the meme is that the combination of these extremely disparate, unrelated fictional characters in the same game was once a commonly referenced absurd joke online, but Fortnite has since added all of these characters as official playable skins, making the former joke a reality. A Fortnite watermark is visible in the bottom right corner of the game screenshot.

This meme was first shared on X (formerly Twitter) as indicated by the provided source X.com:meme.jpg. It plays on the widespread internet joke from before Fortnite began its large-scale cross-franchise collaborations, when the idea of all these unrelated characters appearing in the same game was considered an absurd, impossible fantasy, which is now a real feature of Fortnite. The meme went viral as users related to the experience of seeing previously hypothetical absurd crossovers become actual in-game content.