People latched on to "arrow in the knee" in a big way. The CBS series NCIS awkwardly name-dropped it. It was a visual gag in an early 2012 music video from LMFAO. There are surely other examples not accounted for by KnowYourMeme, but already you can see a picture forming. Before the year was over, a Facebook fan page had launched. 25 entry in Urban Dictionary defined "knee-arrow" as "the affliction of taking an arrow in the knee." In the days that followed, captioned images - the stuff that memes are made of - popped up on FunnyJunk and Memebase. One week after Skyrim launched, a post on the r/skyrim subreddit poked fun at all the "arrow in the knee" guards using a screenshot of a character with a log-sized crossbow bolt piercing his leg. KnowYourMeme charts the early spread from there in various corners of the internet. All across Skyrim there are guards who pine for their glory days of adventuring, all of which were cut short by an unlucky arrow in the knee. More than that, though, it's also just a funny concept when you think about the bigger picture. Some untold story, waiting to be revealed.
But it is nonetheless an early object example of how the phrase just stuck in people's head.
The GameFAQs post never took off in a way that suggests it's the source of the meme, generating only a small handful of replies. 11, 2011, the day Skyrim launched - simply repeats it verbatim, with the first sentence in the subject and the second sentence in the body of the message. User Aggrobiscuit's post - shared on Nov. Meme-tracking website KnowYourMeme traces the community's first discovery of the line back to a post on the GameFAQs fan forums.
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