Pokepuns

Pokepuns

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Updated Feb 05, 2018 at 03:11AM EST by Y F.

Added Sep 05, 2009 at 08:48PM EDT by Greg McCoral.

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About

Pokepuns are an image macro series illustrating various puns and wordplay based on the character names of the Nintendo anime and video game franchise Pokémon.

Origin

The image macros labeled "Pokepun" did not appear until January 2009 with a picture of Raichu and a caption that read "I’m going to Raichu a love song" (I'm going to write you a love song"). An image macro version was posted by DeviantArt user ~its-Will-yo[3] on January 17th and a photoshopped version was posted via Digg[4] on January 29th.


I'M NOT GONNA A LOVE SONG

Some fans also assert that the official names of Pokemon monsters in Japanese were inspired by puns involving their physical traits and characteristics. Prior to the release of Pokemon Black and White in 2011, the NewsBot on the Project Pokemon forum posted a list[1] of speculated reasons behind the official names of each monster in the game.

Precursors

The idea of using Pokémon names as puns has been explored as early as on June 30th, 2007 in a thread posted via 4chan's /b/ (random) board. In the thread, some began photoshopping Pokemon characters into book covers[5] with titles altered to include their names. Months later on September 8th, 2007[2], a Slowpoke thread was derailed by textual puns accompanied by images of Pokemon characters.


F. SCOTT FITZGERALD WITH NOTES AND A PREFACE BY MATTHEW . BRUCCOLI THE GREAT GASTLY THE AUTH ORIZED TEXT the CATCHER in the RAICHU a novel by J. D SALINGER THE BONFIRE OF THE CATERPIES WITH A FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR

Meanwhile, the concept of a word puzzle using pictures in place of words originates from Rebus, an allusional device that uses pictures to represent words or syllables. The technique was heavily used in heraldry artworks such as Canting arms[18] to cleverly hint surnames during the Middle Ages.


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Spread

One of the earliest text-only Pokepun threads outside of 4chan was posted on the Gamespot[6] forums on May 30th, 2008. By June 24th, 2009, an image macro thread was posted on the Miscellaneous section of the BodyBuilding.com[7] forums. Over the course of 2009, collections of these image macros appeared on the RWP forums[8], a single topic Tumblr[9] and Urban Dictionary.[10]


Bitch broke my window- IN YOUR WOMAN-LOCK BITCH. TO RAP ANYMORE? MY GIRLFRIEND NEVER WEARS -ed my tires. My D--- ''h you while 'inyo. Bitch you need Yeah I'm gonnalike a little right in the and Hooked on Ph- HAVING SEX? until it shut and you over me PRM. F YA BITCHES GIVIN IS ON FIRE! That ISAW YOUR GRAND- STRAIN- THAT your brother's face when he is sleeping No need ON YOUR D--- 's me money Don't worry. there's no AWAY WITH MY BIKE It meansno worries SEE CLEARLY NOW THE RAIN IS GONE.

In 2010, Pokepun image macros were extensively covered by single topic blogs on MemeBase[17] and Blogspot[14], in addition to instances appearing on FunnyJunk[11], the Escapist[12] and Smosh.[13] Currently As of November 2011, there are two active Tumblr tags for these image macros, Pokemon Puns[15] and Pokepuns.[16]

Notable Examples


There's no losing the game Why don'tvou come with me, little girl on a et ride. I only date girls who are teeth.
THE BOYS IN TOWN You must build 0 O -inal pylons. THAT WAS -PECTED
He's so And killed himself If she's a virgin, go I WANT TO LICK YOUR CLI

Search Interest

Search queries for both "Pokemon Puns" and "Pokepuns" began in February 2009, a month after the image macros began appearing. They both peaked in December 2009 and December 2010 possibly coinciding with the holiday season and people receiving Pokemon games as presents.

External References

[1] Project Pokemon – Games: Every Unova Poképun Explained

[2] 4chan archive – Pokepuns

[3] deviantArt – ~its-Will-yo

[4] Digg – I'm not gonna raichu a love song

[5] chanarchive – The Great Ghastly

[6] GameSpot – Official PokePun Topic here because I SAID SO!

[7] BodyBuilding.com – ITT Poke-puns (lulz were had)

[8] RWP Forums – Pokepuns

[9] Tumblr – Pokepuns

[10] Urban Dictionary – Pokepun

[11] FunnyJunk – Pokepuns

[12] The Escapist –

[13] Smosh – Punday #8: Pokepuns

[14] Blogspot – Pokemon Puns

[15] Tumblr – Posts tagged "Pokemon Puns"

[16] Tumblr – Posts tagged "pokepuns" and pokepun

[17] MemeBase – Pokememes

[18] Wikipedia – Rebus

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