I Told You We Are Going to Watch X and Then You Can Leave

I Told You We Are Going to Watch X and Then You Can Leave, sometimes written I Told You We Are Going to Play X, refers to anexploitableimage macroandphrasal templatewhere Evan Peters, playing serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer in the Netflixseries Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, sits in front of a TVphotoshoppedto be playing a bad, memeable or ironically bad movie or TV show with a caption reading, "I told you we are going to watch X and then you can leave," "X" being the show or movie, as well as video games using the "Play" variant. The format first appeared online on September 24th and gained viral spread that month. That month, the meme spread to Tik Tokas a video format where a video clip is imposed onto the TV screen, known as Going To Hang Out, Watch a Movie.