Spoopy halloween sign.

Spoopy

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Added Oct 02, 2013 at 07:49PM EDT by Don.

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About

"Spoopy" is an Internet slang word used to describe something that is comical and spooky at the same time. Originally seen on a photograph of a misspelled Halloween sign, the term is also closely associated with another slang word 2Spooky on the microblogging site Tumblr.

Origin

On October 15th, 2009, Flickr[1] user Mike Woodridge uploaded a photo of a Halloween sign with the word "Spoopy" written in a skeleton-style font (shown below).


Mike Woodridge's flickr post of a Halloween sign of the word SPOOPY

Spread

On February 7th, 2011, the Tumblr [4] blog Arts Farts & Cocks posted another photograph of a "spoopy" Halloween sign (shown below, left), gaining over 20,400 notes in the first three years. On December 28th, 2012, Flickr[5] user Lindsay Blankenship posted an illustration of a woman in front of a cobweb with the word "Spoopy" written on the bottom (shown below, right).


another example of a Spoopy Sign funny creepy portrait of a woman that is very SPOOPY

On June 18th, 2013, Tumblr user sp00pyzorak3[2] posted Woodrige's photograph of the spoopy sign juxtaposed with a picture of a cake with the word "creppy" written on it (shown below). In the next three months, the post gathered upwards of 137,500 notes.


Crepe cake for Halloween with the word Creppy written on the frosting

On September 26th, FunnyJunk[6] user orgodemir submitted a post titled "2spoopy" to the Internet humor site, featuring an animated GIF from the 2007 horror film Paranormal Activity with the character Patrick from the animated television series Spongebob Squarepants edited into the scene (shown below).


Spoopy GIF of night vision of bedroom and Patrick from Spongebob ghost walks by in the hallway

On October 2nd, Redditor Wretched cereal submitted an image macro titled "2spoopy wow" to the /r/SuperShibe[3] subreddit, featuring an edited photograph of the "Doge" Shibu Inu with an exposed skull (shown below).


Shibu Inu DOGE with exposed skull spoopy pic

Various Examples


Funny GIF of person acting like a ghost in their living room to be SPOOPY Meme about explaining why she is Spoopy Spoopy fire breathing snowman GIF

Spoopy gif cartoon of robot chasing someone comically Extremely spoopy trailer meme graphic Spoopy GIF of groovy skeletons dancing in the hallway

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External References

[1] Flickr – Spoopy Halloween Sign

[2] Tumblr – sp00pyzorak3

[3] Reddit – 2spoopy wow

[4] Tumblr – Arts Farts and Cocks

[5] Flickr – Spoopy

[6] FunnyJunk – 2spoopy

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