About

"Beep boop" is a very common and a rather popular catchphrase that depicts noises and expressions of various mechanical beings, mainly, robots and droids, but also other computerized or electo-mechanical entities.

Origin

The catchphrase seems to used for a very long time, it is possible that it first became widely used in pop-culture after the Cinematic – Star Wars: A New Hope. in which one of the secondary character was R2-D2, an egg shaped three legged droid that, although was intelligent, could only issue beeping sounds that could only be understood by other robots. the character was very well loved and appreciated especially for his signature beepings. While only other robots and certain characters could fully understand the droid, the intonation of R2D2's beeps and boops were often slightly nuanced as a method to convey various childish emotions such as excitement, disappointment, histeria, frustration and satisfaction.

Recently, the phrase received an increase in popularity thanks to Valve adding a new robot costume to their multiplayer FPS – Team fortress 2, the character wearing the costume – The Soldier would often utter "beep boop" in an intetionally overacted manner.^[1]

Usage

The phrase is commonly used with image macros that has robots and mechanical instruments in them, as well as in images of ordinary objects, humorously depicting them as robots.
It is also used to give an impression of a robot or to playfully pretend that one is a robotic entetity