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added Nov 09, 2009 at 01:55AM UTC

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About

GET is an randomly generated event on imageboards when a post’s number ends with a significant number, such as every millionth post, 123456789, 55555555, etc. GET is most popular on 4chan due to the high post traffic which makes deliberately getting GETs more difficult.

Origin

The term GET (in all caps) originated from the Japanese 2ch text boards as 2GET and 1000GET, the first and last possible replies to a thread (similar to FIRST). This concept carried over to imageboard 2chan and later quickly adopted by sister imageboard 4chan, expanding GETs to special numbered posts.

On text boards, 2ch style GETs can still be seen.

Usage

When a special post number nears, users will attempt to mark the milestone post by starting a thread claiming post number GET along with their favorite picture. The difficulty of scoring a GET depends on the board traffic, so boards with higher traffic have more interest in GET.

4chan boards have been coded with an auto-sticky feature and automatically stickies GETs to the first page (although they have since been disabled, probably due to the shortening frequency between GETs).

It is possible for unrelated posts to inadvertently get milestone post numbers. These GETs sometimes can be FAILGETs or WINGETs, depending on the content of the post, and lulz or O SHI- reactions ensue. A FAILGET is a term for a GET that sucks. Conversely, a WINGET is a term for awesome GETs.

GET Games

The high post traffic on 4chan’s /b/ can make post numbers virtually random. This led to the creation of GET game threads. These games usually concern the last one or two digits of a post, where getting a certain digit has the poster or OP do some sort of action (e.g. post ending in 9 tells me what to do). Another variation of this is where the thread contains a list of possible last digits accompanying some sort of action posters have to do. This is also known as “rolling”, as posting in /b/ is as random as rolling die.

Examples of Milestone GETs

/b/ was reset several times due to its first chaotic incarnations. The first GET occurred on April 2004, but does not seem to be recorded.

6666 GET on /jp/

Cirno upside-down WINGET

1 Million GET on /b/

Sketch of Sae Sawanoguchi from anime Magic Users Club in sexual bliss. Mods later deleted the post and replaced it with a picture of a ‘Bonzai Budgie’ jar and renumbering the post as 1000000.

1.6 Million GET on /b/

3333333 GET on /b/

HaruhiGET. User was later banned for post.

4040404 GET on /a/

50 Million GET on /b/
Link

100 Million GET on /b/

Furry GET.

123456789 GET on /b/

173M GET

Friday, November 6th 2009 GET.

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19 Comments

Hector Hessy
Nov 09, 2009 at 02:10AM UTC , Hector Hessy wrote:

100M GET on /b/ was a furry get

Nickoliavich
Nov 09, 2009 at 03:01AM UTC , Nickoliavich wrote:

Great entry is great

Jostin Asuncion
Nov 09, 2009 at 06:11AM UTC , Jostin Asuncion wrote:

I have to admit, Blah. Out of all the “GET” submissions:

- http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/number-m-get
- http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/get
- http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/get-game

… yours is naturally the best written article out of them all. gj!

Tomberry
Nov 09, 2009 at 07:57AM UTC , Tomberry wrote:

+1 well written article is well written.
Here is a cookie for you.

Fierce Pika
Nov 09, 2009 at 08:40AM UTC , Fierce Pika wrote:

Don’t get me wrong, this is all kinds of awesomeness (and good writing with good examples). But like a LOT of entries here, I’m wondering whether this is really an internet meme or just a 4chan meme. Doesn’t the meme have to be propagated well beyond the boards to count as anything other than a sub-meme?

Just because it’s a meme on the boards doesn’t make it a meme for the REST of the internet. If we got that route, pretty soon all the in-jokes on freakin’ furry boards or whatever will have to be counted as “memes” too, and then this just becomes a repository of the entire internet.

Ben "Jammin" Proctor
Nov 09, 2009 at 08:38PM UTC , Ben "Jammin" Proctor wrote:

I think it actually started with Super Mario Sunshine, with the whole “Sunshine Get!”

Blah-tan
Nov 09, 2009 at 11:44PM UTC , Blah-tan wrote:

@Pika: The concept of GET applies to all imageboards. 4chan is just the center of the article because that is where it is most popular. And before 4chan, it was on 2ch and 2chan.

@Firegamer4:

Steven R.
Nov 10, 2009 at 07:04PM UTC , Steven R. wrote:

Shine Get! was a mistranslation in Super Mario Sunshine. The parrot in Chapter 4 of PM:TTYD also randomly says Shine Get! Shine Get!

Emerelds5 Hay
Nov 13, 2009 at 06:45PM UTC , Emerelds5 Hay wrote:

there seems to be some confusion with our articles so I renamed mine and changed alot. plz re…view….lolz
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/get-game

BlackDS
Nov 15, 2009 at 03:50AM UTC , BlackDS wrote:

I thought “gets” could refer to anything.

pokecatchsoul
Nov 15, 2009 at 12:03PM UTC , pokecatchsoul wrote:

when I wasn’t banned from *chans I saw “150M get!”

Rigid11494
Nov 17, 2009 at 07:09PM UTC , Rigid11494 wrote:

Very nicely done article but this is part of the aids that is killing /b/ you can’t go 2 hours without seeing a GET thread…

Luke
Dec 08, 2009 at 01:13PM UTC , Luke wrote:

Killing /b/? It’s killing ALL the channels it shows up in.

34GET
Dec 12, 2009 at 07:38PM UTC , 34GET wrote:

get is a meme? if it is, these pics are a poor example. maybe meme gets should be a meme. (ex. post ending in 69 names meme)

Shii
Jan 23, 2010 at 08:40PM UTC , Shii wrote:

http://shii.org/knows/GET has a list

Tomberry
Jan 23, 2010 at 08:44PM UTC , Tomberry wrote:

Your website doesn’t work, Shii.

Watdowatdo
Jan 27, 2010 at 06:48AM UTC , Watdowatdo wrote:

Most recent get was 12000000 on /b/. There were some crazy statistics on how many people were posting at once to get the get. I think some 1500 people made posts at once to get this get. m00t can still get the stats if you ask him for it.

Cool stuff that’s done on 4chan isn’t necessarily a meme! A meme has to be spread. The backwater habits of an internet community that only apply to that community aren’t meme’s. Imma let you finish was a meme. Rickrolling was a meme. Weegee is a meme. Hell, socially awkward penguin even though he sticks around 4chan is still a meme because he can still flow over into other communities. Millhouse will never be a meme.

I_Am_A_Rock
Feb 22, 2010 at 07:20AM UTC , I_Am_A_Rock wrote:

Ahh! 200m GET! I remember it perfectly today!

Of course, I was trying to get it myself, but my computer could not handle the amount of flood material on that page, so I had to wait it out.

Anyways, a Pokemon is definitely better than a furry.

Keewa
Feb 28, 2010 at 06:37PM UTC , Keewa wrote:

Moot recently put Xs on the end of 4chan post numbers, ruining getting and rolling games :(

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