What Gives People Feelings of Power Meme Template

This hand-drawn horizontal bar chart originates from a webcomic published in early 2019 by webcomic artist More Sky (published across Instagram and Reddit).

The original comic illustrated a humorous ranking titled "WHAT GIVES PEOPLE FEELINGS OF POWER", featuring small bars for traditional sources like "MONEY" and "STATUS", followed by an elongated bottom bar representing a specific, oddly satisfying mundane victory.

The format spread rapidly through Reddit (notably r/dankmemes and r/memes) in March and April 2019, quickly gaining traction across Twitter/X and Instagram. By blanking out the label for the bottom pink bar, creators turned it into a universal exploitable graphic for celebrating minor, everyday flexes that provide far more psychological satisfaction and unearned godhood than actual wealth or social ranking.

Disproportionate ego boost, minor victories, petty flexes, satisfying moments, and absurd feelings of superiority.

• The Header (Top): Hand-lettered all-caps black text reading "WHAT GIVES PEOPLE" underlined, followed by "FEELINGS OF POWER" with a long horizontal dividing line beneath it.
• The Chart Axis: A simple vertical black line serving as the y-axis for three horizontal data bars.
• Bar 1 (Top): A short green rectangular bar labeled "MONEY" in capital letters.
• Bar 2 (Middle): A slightly longer light-blue rectangular bar labeled "STATUS" in capital letters.
• Bar 3 (Bottom): An elongated pink/magenta bar stretching far across the lower frame, left unlabeled for custom situational text.
• Solid, untextured white space mimicking a minimalist notebook sketch or doodle.

The template relies on clean visual data irony to elevate mundane human triumphs. Hand-drawn with simple geometric bars and casual lettering, it mimics an objective psychological chart only to subvert it with a comically exaggerated outlier. While "MONEY" and "STATUS" register modest measurements on the axis, the blank bottom bar stretches nearly the full width of the canvas, visually signaling total psychological domination. On meme forums and social media, it is the standard vehicle for highlighting trivial achievements—like guessing a password on the first try or skipping an ad at zero seconds—that make someone feel vastly more powerful than actual worldly success ever could.