Help, everyone’s turning Resident Evil 4’s Ashley into a mouse and now Capcom is in on it too

Hey, you know Ashley? From Resident Evil 4 (opens in new tab)? She’s a mouse now. Yeah, I don’t really get it either, but you need to clear any images you have of the president’s daughter as an actual human woman from your mind, because the internet has decided she’s an adorable, cheese-loving rodent no taller than your ankles, and now Capcom has acknowledged it too. I can only imagine a patch to the game will be forthcoming in the next few weeks.

It began just over a week ago, when a Twitter user named Agrimmora posted an innocuous bit of fanart to their personal account. Asking “What if you booted up resident evil 4 remake and Ashley was just a tiny mouse, what would you do,” Agrimmora inadvertently sparked off one of the most powerful and inexplicable memes in recent memory.