The 'Hey It's Me Goku' or 'Goku Cancer Edits' meme is a surreal and dark-humored subversion of Goku's character from the Dragon Ball series. Traditionally, Goku seeks out the strongest fighters in the universe with his signature catchphrase, 'Hey, it's me, Goku! I heard you're pretty strong.' In this edited version, the joke takes a bizarre turn where Goku acknowledges a person's terminal illness or personal struggle as a 'strong opponent' and offers to fight it himself. Emerging from ironic shitposting circles on platforms like Twitter and Reddit around 2021, the meme relies on the jarring contrast between Goku's upbeat, battle-hungry personality and the gravity of real-world tragedies, often used to mock overly earnest fan art or simply for absurdist shock value.