Rest in peace, Chuck Norris, the original meme. The legendary figure died on Thursday at 86, but his legacy will forever live on through Chuck Norris facts. The Walker, Texas Ranger star was a lot of things: a military veteran,

As Chuck Norris breathed his last on Friday, the internet fondly remembered its original parody king.

Norris’s role as a steely lawman who used martial arts more than his gun led to one of the internet’s original meme formats in the 2000s.