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BORN TO DIE / WORLD IS A FUCK / Kill Em All 1989 / I am trash man / 410,757,864,530 DEAD COPS is a nonsensical engrish phrase.

Origin

The phrase first appeared on a t-shirt underneath a picture of two smiling cartoon animals. While it is believed that the original seller of the t-shirt has disappeared^[2], the shirt reappeared on July 12th, 2014, on Tumblr user insidemycar's page^[3] with the caption "finna get this printed." The image of the standing dog and cat is from a keychain sold by the Chinese retailer OneInHundred.^[1]

Spread

The meme found a wide audience on October 20th, 2014, when the Tumblr blog Gender of the Night^[4] published the image with the caption, "Tonight's Gender of the Night is: BORN TO DIE WORLD IS A FUCK Kill Em All 1989 I am trash man 410,757,864,530 DEAD COPS." As of July 20th, 2016, the post has over 19,000 notes. As the image grew popular on Tumblr, the shirt appeared on online retailers such as Amazon,^[5] Redbubble,^[6] and others. It has since gone on to inspire variations where the standing cat and dog are replaced with images of Pikachu, ^[7] Dat Boi, ^[8] and various others.

On December 21st, 2015, Australian producer Vaporplaid posted an EP named "BORN TO DIE/ WORLD IS A FUCK/ Kill Em All 1989/ I am trash man/ 410,757,864,530 DEAD COPS" to Bandcamp.^[9]

On April 18th, 2016, the members of Canadian video game channel Super Best Friends Play brought up the meme in an episode of their podcast, Super Best Friendcast,^[10] leading to the height of the meme's popularity.

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