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The Actual GOAT: Patreon CEO Blocking Reckless Ben Takedown Meme

This meme pairs a top text caption with a viral photo of famous Mexican soccer goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa performing a dramatic, acrobatic save during a professional match. The caption compares Ochoa's impressive save to the Patreon CEO's action of blocking a takedown request from brand Bricks & Minifigs targeting creator Reckless Ben's Patreon account. The original post title is 'The actual goat', which is internet slang for 'Greatest of All Time', framing the CEO's choice to protect the creator as an extremely admirable, skillful move, drawing a humorous direct parallel to Ochoa's gravity-defying athletic feat.
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How the ceo of patreon was moving when he blocked Bricks & Minfigs takedown of Reckless Ben’s patreon

Overview

This meme pairs a top text caption with a viral photo of famous Mexican soccer goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa performing a dramatic, acrobatic save during a professional match. The caption compares Ochoa's impressive save to the Patreon CEO's action of blocking a takedown request from brand Bricks & Minifigs targeting creator Reckless Ben's Patreon account. The original post title is 'The actual goat', which is internet slang for 'Greatest of All Time', framing the CEO's choice to protect the creator as an extremely admirable, skillful move, drawing a humorous direct parallel to Ochoa's gravity-defying athletic feat.

Origin notes

This meme was retrieved from an RSS feed of the Reddit r/Meme subreddit. The base image is the widely circulated photo of Guillermo Ochoa's iconic 2014 FIFA World Cup save, a popular pre-existing meme template used to represent someone successfully stopping an unwanted action or request. The meme was edited using the Mematic mobile editing tool, as marked by the watermark in the bottom left corner, and references a viral online incident where toy company Bricks & Minifigs attempted to remove creator Reckless Ben's Patreon account, a request Patreon rejected.

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