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00:00If you thought that the Y2K trend was finally on its way out, then think again, because
00:05this big name from the early aughts has been cooking up a storm in memes recently.
00:10To misquote Jordan Peterson, there are currently Saddam Husseins everywhere for eyes that see.
00:15Why exactly is the silhouette of an Iraqi dictator playing the world's most advanced
00:20game of hide and seek?
00:21Let's take a look.
00:22This unusual depiction of Saddam Hussein originally comes from a 2003 BBC article detailing his
00:29capture by American military forces in Operation Red Dawn.
00:33This depiction of his hiding place first went viral in 2021, when a tweet compared the diagram
00:38to a rental apartment.
00:39This opened the floodgates for endless parodies of the diagram, such as comparing it to a
00:44mobile game ad or Plato's Cave.
00:46However, in 2024, the focus has shifted onto the man himself and the many unlikely places
00:52where he can be found.
00:53Almost 20 years after his demise, people are still pondering the whereabouts of Saddam.
00:58Whether the zoomers participating in this trend actually know who he is is another matter.