AI Puking Horse
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About
AI Puking Horse or Horse Throwing Up In Gas Station refers to an AI-generated picture of a brown horse in a convenience store vomiting on the floor. The grainy nature of the image, making it look like it came from security footage, combined with the grass or oat-coloring of the vomit led to people mistakenly thinking it was real, unaware that horses are physically unable to puke. In August 2024, the image started to see significant usage by Yu-Gi-Oh! players who would post it in different variations on posts by Konami to troll the company. Elsewhere online, the artificial intelligence image is also used as a reaction and exploitable meme format.
Origin
One of the first instances of the horse puking image being uploaded was on the subreddit /r/horsejokes, on July 15th, 2024. In the post, Redditor u/SirSuccsAL0t[1] uploaded the AI-generated image with the caption, "Horse customer" and no other context or punchline given, acting as a template for the meme (shown below). The post did not see significant engagement.
Spread
A month later, the trading card company Konami announced that it would release a ban list for the card game Yu-Gi-Oh by the end of August 2024. A ban list is meant to radically change the metagame by announcing which cards cannot be played or what quantity of certain cards can be used, so players were eagerly awaiting its arrival.
After the wait, however, some fans of Yu-Gi-Oh began to post AI Puking Horse as a reply to any post made by the official company's X / Twitter account, first seen on the August 23rd post by X user @PopeCheetosXIV[2] (shown below) that received over 30 likes in 10 days.
that's not a banlist pic.twitter.com/NVaVqOJZxn
— Morgan (@PopeCheetosXIV) August 23, 2024
As the end of August 2024 arrived, players became more impatient with the lack of a ban list being posted. This led to them editing the image in order to maximize its spread and then continuing to post it on different marketing posts made by the company.
On August 29th, 2024, a post made by Konami about an upcoming release was inundated with several edits of the horse, including one by X user @albrock88[3] in which they turned the image into a Yu-Gi-Oh card (shown below), receiving nearly 9,000 views and 200 likes in five days.
![BARFING HORSE & NO BANLIST WIGIAN JUAN-EN001 IVIN [BEAST/EFFECT] Once per Chain if your opponent makes a post that is not the Banlist (Quick Effect): You can special summon this card from your hand, deck, GY, banishment, binder or storage, and if you do, barf on your opponents post, then you can return this card to the hand ready for the next post. 2359590831 ATK/ 3100 DEF/ 800 Late August 2024](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/896/180/6b9 "barfing horse")
Various Examples
![ENJUMP Yu Gi Oh! TRADING CARD GAME FORBIDDEN & LIMITED CARD LIST UPDATE EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY FORBIDDEN HORSE OF BROKEN SANITY CE HORSE OF BROKEN SANITY WI 19 INFO- [BEAST] If your opponent has not released a banlist, you can special summon this card to the field. Add it back to your hand during the end of day phase. ATK/4000 DEF/4000 This fan card was created at cardmaker.net View the full Forbidden & Limited Card List at yugioh-card.com ©2020 Studio Dice/SHUEISHA, TV TOKYO, KONAMI](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/896/186/3e6 "horse")
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![Due Daddy SHONENUMP Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME ANOTHER ANCIENT TREASURE IS UNCOVERED! PROXY HORSE 10 [CYBERSE/EFFECT] If this card you control would be used as Link Material for a Cyberse monster, you can also use 1 Cyberse monster in your hand as material. During your End Phase You can banish this card from your GY, then target 2 Link Monsters in your GY including a Cyberse Link Monster; return them to the Extra Deck You can only use each effect of "Proxy Horse" once per turn ATK/1100 DEF/1100 Receive a FREE Lost Art Promotion card when you spend at least $30 USD ($40 CAD) on sealed Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME product at participating Official Tournament Stores*. While supplies last. Excludes sales tax. 2020 Studio Dice/SHUEISHA, TV TOKYO, KONAMI](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/list/002/896/190/ec7 "horse")
![ENJUMP Yu Gi Oh! TRADING CARD GAME FORBIDDEN & LIMITED CARD LIST UPDATE EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY FORBIDDEN HORSE OF BROKEN SANITY CE HORSE OF BROKEN SANITY WI 19 INFO- [BEAST] If your opponent has not released a banlist, you can special summon this card to the field. Add it back to your hand during the end of day phase. ATK/4000 DEF/4000 This fan card was created at cardmaker.net View the full Forbidden & Limited Card List at yugioh-card.com ©2020 Studio Dice/SHUEISHA, TV TOKYO, KONAMI](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/list/002/896/186/3e6 "horse")
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