In October 2020, a Facebook account known as "Leftist Gamer Memes" posted a meme depicting Wiefgraf saying left-wing rhetoric in a similar vein to the anti-capitalist themes in Final Fantasy Tactics:


This meme would be shared so much that other users and internet sources began to mistakenly cite it as a real quote from the game. The game's writer and director Yasumi Matsuno eventually discovered the meme and clarified it was a fake quote, but nonetheless saw it as "something I would have written." He felt the meme's appeal stemmed from people dropping the game after its first chapter and not fully seeing the rest of Wiefgraf's character, stating: