

On March 31st, 2021, YouTuber Fazzer attached the meme to a video of Nya Arigato, gaining over 108,000 views in a year (shown below, left).

The meme saw use as an exploitable over the following months, attached to various clips as a form of bait-and-switch meme. The video gained over 43,000 smiles in just over a year, and is based on an earlier Anime Girl Throwing Things meme submitted by iFunny user Bedtimeforbonzo on November 2nd, 2020, (shown below, right), which itself is a video version of an earlier Reddit post. On November 18th, iFunny user Magmapanda77 posted a video using an image macro of the Scout, captioned, "think fast, chucklenuts" where the audio clip plays followed by a flash of white and a whining sound, as if the he just threw a flashbang grenade (shown below, left).
#Team fortress 2 scout impressions series
On October 10th, 2020, Twitter parody page announced a fake animated series starring the Scout using the phrase, gaining over 8,000 likes in just over a year. One of the earliest memes to use the audio clip is a Source Filmmaker edit posted by YouTuber Enth on November 15th, 2012, where the Scout throws a grenade at the Soldier and hits him in the balls, gaining over 10,000 views in 10 years (shown below).

In the game, the Scout character class says the phrase "think fast, chucklenuts" after stunning an enemy with his Sandman weapon. On October 10th, 2007, Team Fortress 2 was released.
