[jchw]

The first time I saw the Demon Core as a "meme" is from the Japanese creator からめる, a person most known for short absurdist humor animations.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=6ZIjbX1gj88

I'm not sure if this is the genesis of the demon core meme (probably not), but it definitely came fairly early on.

[thih9]

If anyone is interested, there are more animations like this e.g.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNZnfbl_Z7M , https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Od_RTVirPCo , https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Eyl3WQCttQ8 . Sadly I see english subtitles only in the last one.

[jchw]

If you scroll far enough in the comments of most of からめる's videos, there will almost always be a English-translated transcript somewhere. Of course, in many cases you barely need them, since most of their videos don't really need much explanation, or maybe more accurately, utterly defy attempts at being explained.

[RajT88]

I feel like this had to emerge on 2ch. The mix of cute/death is very much that community.

[cdchn]

I was going to comment that I'm disappointed there is no mention of Demon core-kun.