Newfags Can't Triforce

About

“Newfags Can’t Triforce” refers to a phrase frequently used in 4chan roll call and response threads. The threads typically feature the original poster challenging 4chan “newfags” to create a correctly formatted ASCII Triforce, originating from The Legend Of Zelda. also referred to as as a Triforcii. The posters who simply copy and paste the Triforce will fail to post a correctly formatted ASCII Triforce. (Shown Below)

Correctly formatted Triforce:

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Incorrectly formatted Triforce:

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Origin

While the true origin is unknown, the archived post is in a January 29th, 2009 /a/ post about how “hook up threads, boxxy threads, newfags can’t triforce threads and report in threads” are flooding /b/, and /b/ should be given it’s own site.^[1]

Spread

A search for “newfags can’t triforce” brings up over 1,200 results on fgts.jp^[2], 170 results on Desustorage^[3], and 140 results on 4plebs.^[4] On June 10th, 2014, YouTube user ThatOneStuff posted a video of a angry child getting angry over trying to post the Triforce. The video has since gained over 130 thousand views.

On February 19th, 2014 Reddit user DarkVoid1794 made post to the subreddit /r/4chan entitled “Newfags can’t triforce” featuring an image of the Happy Merchant accompanied by a Star of David made of ASCII triangles.^[5] The post has since gained 516 points (88% upvoted).

How to Triforce

The correct method of posting the ASCII Triforce requires use of non-breaking space characters for various operating systems:

Windows: [alt-255] [alt-255] [alt-30] [enter] [alt 30] [alt 255] [alt 30]
 
Mac: [option-space] + [option-space] + [option-J] + [enter] + [option-J] + [option-space] + [option-J]
 
Linux: [Ctrl+Shift+U + a0] [Ctrl+Shift+U + a0] [Ctrl+Shift+U + 25b2] [Enter] [Ctrl+Shift+U + 25b2] [Ctrl+Shift+U + a0] [Ctrl+Shift+U + 25b2]

Various Examples

Search Interest

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