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According to Urbandictionary.com, the term ROFLCOPTER originated in the Warcraft III forums


nvented by a Blizzard moderator on the Warcraft III forum. There is always much whining going on on those official forums, much sucking up to moderators and an awful lot of ‘BLUE!!! PLZ REPLY!!!1one’ (Blue = color of moderator posts), so when a mod posts something, you can bet there’ll be thousands of people jumping on it, if only to spam ‘BLUE FIX GARGZ PLZZZZ’ or ‘first reply woooot!’ after it in the vain hope that the mod will read it and react.

So when one invented this new buzzword, it was grabbed and squeezed out and spread like a virus across all of the Blizzard forums and from there over the internet.

Roflcopter.com was created on March 30th, 2004, featuring nothing more than an animated GIF of an ASCII Helicopter. (See: roflcopter.com archived May 7th, 2004)

Wiktionary credits Roflcopter.com with popularising the term, but points out that it may have been used as early as 2003.

Y.T.M.N.D.

The first ROFLcopter YTMND was created by xeonshockwave on May 1st, 2004 and has been viewed over 14,000 times.

The most viewed and highest-rated ROFLcopter YTMND was created by Chyort on July 8th, 2006 and has been viewed 173,052 times.

As of February, 2010, there have been a total of 143 ROFLcopter YTMNds created.

  • Click here to see the most up to date YTMND search results for ROFLcopter.

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Google Insights

Searches for RoflCopter begin to show up in March of 2004. By September of 2005, searches for the term seem to have mostly leveled out, mostly maintaining search volume without much decrease for the last 6 years.

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14 Comments

Shadow7895
Jul 03, 2009 at 01:45AM UTC , Shadow7895 wrote:

needs ALOT more reserch and pictures.

Shadow7895
Jul 03, 2009 at 01:45AM UTC , Shadow7895 wrote:

needs ALOT more reserch and pictures.

Emerelds5 Hay
Aug 25, 2009 at 05:26PM UTC , Emerelds5 Hay wrote:

I thought it originated from microsoft sam when you type something similar in he sais that….plz research moar

prokadae
Sep 24, 2009 at 01:26AM UTC , prokadae wrote:

         ROFL:ROFL:LOL:ROFL:ROFL
           _________▲____
L         /  _______   []\
O=====||[       ]|||||\
L         \[______]||_|/
          __I_________I___

applause

prokadae
Sep 24, 2009 at 01:27AM UTC , prokadae wrote:

oh wait no…that didnt come out right…

thedonnie123
Sep 25, 2009 at 06:12PM UTC , thedonnie123 wrote:

http://www.rofl.name/roflcopter/

Game

kikinak
Oct 09, 2009 at 04:14PM UTC , kikinak wrote:

i know why the roflcopter goes soi!

go to the speech thing in the control panel and with microsoft sam as the voice type in soi multiple times. he makes a whoosh noise kind of like the rotor spinning.

swampertdude
Nov 16, 2009 at 11:29PM UTC , swampertdude wrote:

http://www.kreativekorp.com/miscpages/omgwtfbbq/
found a funny roflcopter gif

sockmonkeyrevolt
Nov 19, 2009 at 03:27PM UTC , sockmonkeyrevolt wrote:

When I think of ROFLcopters, I always think of the Feuerfriemovie animation that’s been floating around since 2004 or earlier. http://dagobah.biz/flash/feuerfreimovie.swf

Invader Zim
Dec 20, 2009 at 02:13AM UTC , Invader Zim wrote:

It is also an iPod Touch/iPhone app!!!

Veritas
Jan 20, 2010 at 01:58PM UTC , Veritas wrote:

Added some piczies

Shadowslayer
Jan 20, 2010 at 10:56PM UTC , Shadowslayer wrote:

I just shot down the ROLFcopter with my STFUcannon!

Dallas Charter
Mar 10, 2010 at 09:15AM UTC , Dallas Charter wrote:

it doesn’t even talk about in this entry how this phrase was popularized by Arby ‘n’ the Chief. Alot more work needs to be done to this entry.

Jakub Ostapczuk
Mar 14, 2010 at 12:06PM UTC , Jakub Ostapczuk wrote:

Do you have Windows XP?

So, do the following:

  • Go to the Control Panel\Speech.
  • Choose Microsoft Sam as a voice.
  • Type in “soi soi soi soi…” and so on.
  • Turn the speed up to the max.
  • Play.

Do you hear a helicopter?

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