The 'Heavy Like A Brinks Truck' meme, also known as 'Buff TF2 Mercs,' revolves around hyper-masculine, muscular fan art of characters from the game Team Fortress 2. This trend exploded in 2022 when the artwork was paired with the song 'Tick Tock' by Joji. It is primarily used as a bait-and-switch format, where a standard video or 'thirst trap' unexpectedly cuts to slideshows of shirtless, incredibly buff versions of the Heavy, Engineer, or Soldier. The meme thrives on the absurd contrast between the game's original cartoonish aesthetic and this stylized, homoerotic fan art, becoming a staple of ironic shitposting across TikTok, Reddit, and Discord.