To Be Continued Meme Generator
You lean back on two legs of the chair to look cool in front of the new colleague. The chair begins to tip. The picture freezes. An arrow appears.
Your dad says "watch this" and steps onto the frozen pond. Everyone holds their breath. To be continued.
The cake is carried in, candles lit, toward the birthday girl - and the dog has spotted the trailing tablecloth.
You reply-all "lol he's so annoying" and your finger hovers over send. The arrow slides in from the left.
Why it caught on: the 2012 anime ended its Phantom Blood and Battle Tendency episodes on a freeze-frame, a hand-drawn "To Be Continued" arrow and the opening bars of Yes's "Roundabout". Around 2016 people began cutting fail videos off right before the fall with that arrow and that guitar, and the sub uses any freeze-frame to stop a story at its worst moment.