4 http://knowyourmeme.com/system/icons/326/thumb/whowasphone.jpg?1244358509 http://encyclopediadramatica.com/But_who_was_x#The_original_creepypasta http://macrochan.org/search.py?tag=Neutral%3AThen%20who%20was%20phone http://knowyourmeme.com/system/icons/326/square/whowasphone.jpg?1244358509 2009-06-07T02:39:04Z 4chan 2008 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= active 4chan, catchphrase, slang, copypasta, creepypasta, phones, /x/, typo, engrish, english, usa 17 <h2>Origin</h2> <p>&#8220;<span class="caps">THEN</span> <span class="caps">WHO</span> <span class="caps">WAS</span> <span class="caps">PHONE</span>?&#8221; originated from the /x/ community on 4chan, where people try to tell each other scary stories.</p> <p>One day a stroller-troller left the following text, and memetic history was made:</p> <blockquote> <p>So ur with ur honey and yur making out wen the phone rigns. U anser it n the vioce is &#8220;wut r u doing wit my daughter?&#8221; U tell ur girl n she say &#8220;my dad is ded&#8221;. <span class="caps">THEN</span> <span class="caps">WHO</span> <span class="caps">WAS</span> <span class="caps">PHONE</span>?</p> </blockquote> <p>The silliness (and perhaps intentional errors) made it popular, and this piece of creepypasta was picked up and even spawned a couple of spin-offs, including &#8220;IT <span class="caps">WAS</span> <span class="caps">PHONE</span>&#8221;.</p> <p>The &#8220;IT <span class="caps">WAS</span> <span class="caps">PHONE</span>&#8221; meme was a spoof of the original meta-meme. The copypasta text goes like:</p> <blockquote> <p>/B/ <span class="caps">WHAT</span> <span class="caps">MAKES</span> <span class="caps">YOU</span> <span class="caps">ANGRY</span><br /> I <span class="caps">HAVE</span> <span class="caps">STORY</span> I <span class="caps">WAS</span> AT <span class="caps">HOME</span><br /> I <span class="caps">WAS</span> GO TO <span class="caps">SLEEP</span> <span class="caps">WHEN</span> <span class="caps">TIRED</span><br /> <span class="caps">BUT</span> <span class="caps">WAKE</span> UP <span class="caps">BECAUSE</span> AT <span class="caps">DOOR</span>!!!<br /> I GO TO <span class="caps">DOOR</span>!! I <span class="caps">OPEN</span> <span class="caps">NOBODY</span> <span class="caps">WAS</span> <span class="caps">THERE</span>!!!<br /> IT <span class="caps">WAS</span> <span class="caps">FONE</span></p> </blockquote> <p>The line &#8220;IT <span class="caps">WAS</span> <span class="caps">FONE</span>&#8221; became a catchphrase that is used all over YouTube and 4Chan.</p> <p>This meme carries similar connotations to the <a href="/i-accidentally">I Accidentally a X</a></p> <h2>Video</h2> <p>A scary telling of the original story (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKdftmjhMYo">link</a>)</p> <p><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/AKdftmjhMYo&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/AKdftmjhMYo&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></p> 2009-09-20T03:25:06Z 326 12 246 http://knowyourmeme.com/system/icons/326/original/whowasphone.jpg?1244358509