Candlejack is a supernatural villain from the 1995 animated series Freakazoid! who kidnaps anyone who utters his name. The meme format flourished on early imageboards like 4chan, where it became a community-wide rule to always end a post immediately after typing 'Candlejack' to simulate being abducted mid-sentence. Unlike most visual memes, the humor of Candlejack relies on the 'meta' text-based gag of the abrupt cutoff. It remains one of the internet's oldest and most enduring examples of forced participant interaction, where the punchline is the sudden silence of the poster.