“Curse you Bayle!” is the first line of a copypasta meme pulled from the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC for the video game Elden Ring. Bayle the Dread is a dragon and an optional boss fight in the DLC, and the full text of the copypasta can be heard when the player summons the NPC Igon the Drake Warrior during the battle.
The sheer drama of Igon’s speech made for ideal copypasta material, and it quickly spread in various forms across social media platforms like Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, and TikTok.