About
High Impact Sexual Violence is an image macro series featuring close-up avatars of various anime, cartoon and video game characters and the caption “high impact sexual violence,” which is derived from one of the most restrictive ratings that can be assigned to films, video games and publications by the Australian Classification Board, a statutory media censorship and classification agency overseen by the government.
Origin
One of the earliest instances in the series can be found in a thread[1] posted on 4chan‘s /v/ board on February 22nd, 2014, in which users discussed Australia’s classification of the PlayStation Vita version of the 2010 roleplaying video game Atelier Totori: The Adventurer of Arland as having an R-18+ (18 years old and up) rating because of “references to sexual violence”, a significant leap from the rating of PG that was given previously to the non-PS Vita version. The thread resulted in the creation of an image captioned “High Impact Violence” (shown below).[2]
Spread
The first time the exact phrase “High Impact Sexual Violence” was used on 4chan was on February 26th, 2013, in a second thread discussing Australia’s classification of Atelier Totori.[3] On May 27th, 2014, Youtuber CurryButt23 uploaded a video containing a mildly risqué animation and named after the meme, satirizing the Australian government’s labeling of soft sexual content as having “high impact”.
Various Examples
Search Interest
External References
[1]4chan – /v/ Origin Thread
[2]4chan – /v/ Origin Image
[3]4chan – /v/ High Impact Sexual Violence
[4]GameFAQs