Do It Faggot
Added 14 years ago by kikinak • Updated about a month ago by James
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Additional References: Encyclopedia Dramatica Urban Dictionary
About
The phrase, Do It Faggot (often in all-caps), is a canned response originating among 4chan users with the intent to strongly suggest, provoke a response, show doubt toward dubious claims, or respond to suicide threats.
It should be noted that on 4chan, the word "faggot" is often applied indiscriminately to anyone and everyone. All users are identified as some kind of "fag." For instance, people from Britain are called britfags, people new to 4chan are newfags, people who have been on the site for years are called oldfags, and so on. For more information on the word "fag" as a suffix, see KYMdb – Fag (Suffix).
Usage
The phrase, "Do It Faggot," is usually found in threads where people, often trolls, are asking for help with decisions. However, it is also a common response toward a variety of other situations:
Examples
Suggestion
User 1: Should I hack this person's facebook?
User 2: Do it faggot.
Trolling
User 1: what does typing sudo rm -rf /* do?
User 2: do it fgt
Dubious Claim
User 1: Stop it or you'll be banned
User 2: Do it faggot
Suicide Threat
User 1: i think i should kill myself, what do you think /b/?
User 2: DO IT FAGGOT!
Image Macro
"Do It Faggot" pictures consist of a person or character with an impossibly wide grin, wide-open eyes, and teeth bared:
One of the most popular variations, featuring The Beast from Disney's adaptation of "Beauty and the Beast," is cited by Encyclopedia Dramatica [NSFW link] as the origin of the "Do It Faggot" image series.
As a result, cartoon and movie stills are a frequent source of images in combination with this catchphrase.
Spread Outside of 4chan
- GunZFactor (27 Aug 2007)
- Quake3World (22 Aug 2008)
- EBN Forums (8 Feb 2009)
- Snafu Comics (1 Sep 2009)
- Casual Discourse (13 Feb 2010)
- Sythe (7 March 2010)
- BlizzForums (25 July 2010)
Pflugerville High School Terrorist Threat
Although Do it faggot had been used as an image macro as early as June 2007, [NSFW link] the phrase got its first major usage spike in a September 11, 2007 bomb threat posted on 4chan's /b/ board directed at Pflugerville High School in Pflugerville, Texas. A teenage student whose name was withheld because of his age posted on /b/ detailing his operation. [NSFW link].
Hello, /b/.
On September 11, 2007, at 9:11 A.M. Central time, two pipe bombs will be remote-detonated at Pflugerville High School.
Promptly after the blast, I, along with two ther Anonymous, will charge the building, armed with a Bushmaster AR-15, IMI Galil AR, a vintage, government-issue M1 .30 Carbine, and a Benelli M4 semi auto shotgun.
So, what are YOUR plans, /b/?
One of the most common responses by numerous anonymous users was "Do It Faggot," and the phrase exploded in popularity as a result. The teenager would eventually be put under arrest for making the threat after the FBI received an anonymous tip.
4chan Threads:
[All links NSFW]
In similar fashion two months later, another school threat would be posted on /b/, this time targeted towards a high school in Jokela, Finland. Anonymous users would once again motivate the act by repeatedly proclaiming "Do It Faggot."
Suicide Threats
Since its sudden increase in popularity in 2007, "Do It Faggot" has seen an upsurge as a reply toward suicide threats. Although suicide threats are a common symptom of people about to attempt suicide, the perception that suicidal behavior is often attention-seeking makes it unclear whether people posting comments encouraging suicide are as uncaring as they appear to be. Nevertheless, it is seen as a cruel and callous response toward people suffering from suicidal thoughts.
One of the most widely-publicized internet suicide incidents was that of 19-year-old Abraham Biggs, whose suicide was witnessed by approximately 1500 people over webcam in November of 2008. "Do it faggot" appeared among other comments encouraging him to commit suicide.
On August 20, 2010, Robert Duncan, under the username Diefex, asked Reddit why he shouldn't commit suicide. Comments (including "Do It Faggot") egging him on were posted along with more helpful comments attempting to persuade him to keep on living. Duncan committed suicide two hours later.
Insight
The nature of 4chan's threads prevents us from seeing precisely where the phrase originated, but the first major spike correlates with the Pflugerville High School incident. Search traffic doubles in the time from August to September 2007.
Entry Editors ( 8 )
Recent Images ( 212 )
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We can do it whenever we want. Do we have a deal?
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NUKE IT FAGGOT
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Do it F.A.G.
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* ^ *
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Eeyore: DO IT FAGGOT
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Do it
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DO IT, DOCTOR
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Do it, dickwad.
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Albedo dares you to do it!
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DO IT DARLING
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Star- DO IT FAGGOT
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Even Blaze Can Say It
Comments ( 62 )
The year is 2007 I think. The first instance of this meme I found was a girl in a game show doing a big grin, I'll try to find it.
Someone delete that photobucket one.
DEFINATE MEME.
cant believe this wasn't here already!
its errrrvrywhere, especially the one of that chick with 700 teeth up there
Yeah, I think it's a meme. You should add more detail though, it'll probably help it get confirmed quicker.
Don't think it needs more info,the meme speaks to it self.
"Should we confirm this meme?"
DO IT FAGGOT!
Best meme Ever! It gets so much across with out having to start a argument!
@deus
full of win
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/DO_IT_FAGGOT
makes me laugh every time!
You need to write about the history and the spread and popularity, that's why it hasn't been confirmed yet
well that is kinda the thing, i dont really know all that much about this meme. most of the stuff there was from either stuff that DJ intercept told me, stuff that you told me, and stuff that ED told me.
i guess i could ask anonymous though…
wow, anon refered me to ed.
even after triple checking ed i still could not find anything good i had not already put up there
anon referred me to ED and when i pointed out how uninformative ED's do it faggot page was the thread died. the entire thread was
me: do it faggot origin?
anon: go to ED
me: i already checked
and that was it.
Finally! I can't believe this hasn't been added before.
More detail and a bit of cleaning up is needed first though.
I'm surprised this is still in the submissions section. We need to move this to confirmed.
Oh, also have a video collection of images.
well i think that I added as much info as i am going to be able to get. if anybody knows anything about this meme that isn't already up there, go ahead and post it.
lol daniel radcliff
https://knowyourmeme.com/i/5312/original/massakreX3_1194450167_1194450183.jpg?1247475431
Holy Crap, he really did it, too…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jokela_school_shooting
uh, saiya-jin… i believe that you are in the wrong section. this is for the discussion of THIS MEME specifically. stuff like your post goes in the forums
comform
DO IT FAGGOT!!
Ed's article and Macrochan's link
come on, why has this not been confirmed yet. tons of pictures have been uploaded and there are a lot of memes with less information
seriously why is this taking so long to confirm?
do i really need to say it again? confirm this already! its been like, almost a year since i put this up DX
do i really need to say this again? its been 4 months since i put this up! confirm already!!!
I say confirm
LMFAO I lost it at Mayuri's DO IT FAGGOT.
please confirmed. i made a thread yesterday on a got a alot of responses with this meme.
IMO don't whine about an unconfirmed meme. There is no such thing as BUMP here.
There's just
PRAY A MODERATOR AGREES
Have patience.
DO IT FAGGOT
This should be cleaned-up a bit in terms of the description, but other than that, confirm.
What's that? You don't want to confirm it? DO IT FAGGOT!
+1 confirm!
+1 confirm
DERP DERP DERP
1+ confirm, its one of the most used memes
+1 Confirm
+1 CONFIRM FAGGOT
+confirm, seen it a million times.
>>On 4chan, the word “faggot” is used to imply to anyone and everyone, indiscriminately.
>>imply to anyone
>>imply
CONFIRM IT FAGGOT
CONNFIIRRRMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
+1 confirmfag
+1 Confirm faggot… CONFIRM IT FAGGOT
Haha lol@ the explation about fags
+1 CONFIRM….CONFIRM IT FILLY
The depressing suicide articles take all joy outta this one
I accidentally +1 this meme.
Is… this dangerous?
should this meme be comfirmed?
DO IT FAGGOT!!!
+1 confirm
in b4 admiral ackbar
I'm surprised no one used jeff the killer's picture with that caption…I'm too scared of the picture or I'd do it myself lol
I think faggot and fag are such cool words. They just roll off the tongue and sound so insulting yet hilarious at the same time. I'm totally for gay rights but it's sad that such a cool swear word has to mean something so offensive. I love what 4chan did with this word by just making it into a suffix somehow.
Let's bundle our sticks.
Let's bundle our sticks.
would you kindly parasite
My mouth is too small for this :'(
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My girlfriend said 'do it, faggot' to me, on the topic of proposing to her. It was the most beautiful insult I have ever received.
You did this.
You better do it you faggot.
You did this.
This is the funniest thing I've seen in a while
You better do it you faggot.
This is the funniest thing I've seen in a while
"Do it faggot"- Big Boss,mgs4
Then: A common term for pushing someone to do something
Now: A homophobic slur and suicide pushing
I don't know whever the term was always offensive or if the SJW's just took over.
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