He is treated as a meme character within the Yu-Gi-Oh! community, initially due to his awful stats and lack of support, which later prompted Konami to create a joke archtypes around him. Also gained popularity outsides of the community due to his appearance in the Jaguarman Series.
Note that this tag also covers "King of the Skull Servants" ("Wightking" in Japanese), a much stronger variant of this monster who is otherwise identical to the original Skull Servant in appearance.
