About

Bogos Binted refers to a screenshot of a text conversation in which one person asks the other if they got their photos printed, followed by the response "bogos binted?" and an alien face emoji. The image was first posted to Tumblr in 2018, going viral across social media over the next three years and inspiring a number of memes referencing it.

Origin

On March 24th, 2018, Tumblr^[1] user itwashotwestayedinthewater reposted a post from user tripropellant imagining a situation between a professor and a student unable to understand them, adding, "hi folks. this post always seemed familiar to me for some reason, even when i saw it the first time. i only just figured out why, it uses a message i sent to my brother two years ago." Attached is a screenshot of a text conversation in which the user's brother asks, "Hey, just wondering if you got those photos printed?" to which she responds, "bogos binted?" Her brother responds, "what" and the user replies with an alien emoji (shown below). The post gained over 122,000 notes in three years.

Spread

The original post became notably popular on Tumblr, inspiring a number of posts and artworks based on it over the course of the year. For example, on June 3rd, 2018, Tumblr^[2] user cinematech posted a Death Grips meme using the phrase "bogos binted," garnering over 17,000 notes in three years (shown below).

On June 23rd, 2019, Tumblr^[7] user tim-official posted, "for sale: baby bogos. never binted," a parody of the six-word short story by Ernest Hemingway, For Sale: Baby Shoes, Never Worn, garnering over 7,400 notes in two years (shown below).

On December 14th, Twitter^[8] user @pastafrutti shared an original piece of artwork using the phrase, garnering over 1,000 likes in roughly two years (shown below).

On June 19th, 2020, Instagram^[3] user @big_chungles posted the "bogos binted" image, garnering over 5,900 likes in a year. Over the next two days, Instagram^[4][5] users @grandmas.butt and @hambubrger posted the image, garnering over 29,000 and 14,000 likes respectively in a year.

On May 4th, 2021, Instagram^[6] user @unfriendlymemepage posted a version of the screenshot replacing the alien emoji with a human emoji, garnering over 27,500 likes in a month (shown below).

On June 9th, Twitter^[9] user @LandyRS posted a voiced-over version of the original screenshot, garnering over 13,500 likes and 5,100 retweets in six days (shown below).

On June 15th, YouTuber^[10] silentmanjoe posted a Garry's Mod video using the voiceover, garnering over 24,000 views in an hour (shown below).

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