Ocarina of Time Remake Glitch Memes Introduced Us to Lunk and Lank

Nintendo spent years polishing the Ocarina of Time remake, and the funniest thing in it is a version of Link that was never supposed to exist. Two days after launch, speedrunners had broken the game badly enough to produce him, and the ocarina of time remake glitch memes that followed are the best thing this game has given us since the trailer.

Here is what the meme means. The remake came out November 5 on Switch 2, and on November 7 speedrunner ZFG showed that a glitched jump lets adult Link reach the Silver Gauntlets chest, which the game expects child Link to open. The cutscene then tries to fit adult Link into the child model, and the result is a squashed hybrid fans now call Lunk.

Lunk Memes Start Here

Lunk is a grown man’s face poured into a kid’s body, wearing an expression of total confusion, while the subtitle under him asks “What’s happening? Who are they?!” That is also what I say every time I open the settings on my phone. Fans clipped him, cut him out and pasted him everywhere within hours.

None of this came out of nowhere. Nintendo Life rounded up speedrunners finding new ways to break Ocarina of Time, including one who reached the credits in about four and a half hours the day after launch. Lunk memes are just the side effect people could screenshot, and if Nintendo ever patches these Ocarina of Time remake glitches, the evidence is already saved.

Lank Is Very Angry

The second branch runs the mix-up the other way, and fans have started calling that version Lank. Where Lunk looks lost, Lank looks personally offended, especially while learning the Requiem of Spirit with the face of a man reading his own credit card statement.

One stream’s chat named him Lank Angerey on the spot, and a Reddit reply captured the mood with “(whimsical music stops).” I have never related to a video game character more in my life.

Lonk Stares Back

The third branch is pure reaction image. Lonk is the name floating around for the wide-eyed, slack-jawed variants, and they work for everything from losing an argument to waiting your turn on the family console. These are the Ocarina of Time remake memes that will outlive the glitch, because a face like that is forever.

Nintendo made a gorgeous remake, and the internet’s favorite part is the one cutscene where it panics. So if anyone in Kyoto is still asking what’s happening and who they are, the answer is Lunk, Lank and Lonk, and they live here now.

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