RIP Man Fan

Background
RIP Man Fan is a meme originating on the Current Events message board on GameFAQs.

Overview
User Sticksnrocks created a topic in 2012 that read in its topic title: "Man fan died at the room shot up to 97 degrees" The contents of the post were as follows: "I'm sweating even in my birthday suit....I would open the window but its like the same outside. " The sixth response to this topic was "RIP Man Fan." This joke refers to the opening word of man, instead of just as a casual directive word, as referring to the subsequent item as a sentient form of this object. In this case there is a man fan who has passed away.

This observation quickly took off and the topic began a tribute to this man fan. This sparked a wave of parody topics for example, "Man jacket got ripped." -> "RIP man jacket." The silliness of this meme is a large reason for its success.