Nigga Stole My Bike

About

"Nigga Stole my Bike" (sometimes seen as NSMB) is a catchphrase that was originally paired with a cutscene sequence from the 1987 Nintendo boxing video game Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!.^[1] Since its emergence on Something Awful forums in 2003, the pixel art image and the phrase have inspired a colorful collection of derivative media similarly portraying a chase scene between two characters.

Origin

According to the YTMND Wiki^[2], the phrase is a derivative of "Nigga stole my TV!"^[3] which started on the OffTopic.com^[4] forums sometime in 2002. The image of the Punch-Out!! cutscene was posted as part of a Something Awful Photoshop Phriday^[5] contest held on March 20th, 2003. Created by SA forum user Allanon858, the still was taken from a training cutscene in which the protagonist, Little Mac, is shown jogging after his trainer riding a bike.

Spread

The first YTMND site using Allanon858's image was created on June 3rd, 2004^[6], paired with a looped clip from the 2003 rap song Get Low by Lil Jon and the Eastside Boyz. The following month, YTMND user Duezce^[7] created a second site^[8] with the image, this time featuring a loop of a male narrator saying "nigga stole my bike." Dozens of other YTMNDs soon followed afterwards; There are over 1000 YTMNDs with the phrase “stole my bike”^[8] as of April 2012.

• NSMB: The Live Action Movie

• Nigga Stole My Bike: The Movie

• NSMB: DOS Stole My Bike

• Nigga Stole My Bike, 50 Cent Version (NSFW)

• Lego Rave Nigga Stole My Bike In the Club

Outside of YTMND, the photo and its derivatives have appeared on eBaum's World^[15], FunnyJunk^[16] and the GameTrailers forums.^[17] "Nigga stole my bike" was first defined on Urban Dictionary^[13] on August 24th, 2005. There is also a small Facebook fan page^[14] for the page, which has 222 likes as of April 2012.

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On YouTube, searching for the phrase "stole my bike" yields over 2,000 video results.

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