Editor's note: This entry refers a phenomenon covered in our Replacement Remixes entry.

About

The word "but" was a word, used in YouTube remixes and memes, most notably, "We are number one but………." Which is a flagship meme. in just a few years however, the Bag Raiders hit Shooting Stars and the Smash Mouth hit All Star, even as far as meme covers, remixes.

Origin

From Middle English but, buten, boute, bouten, from Old English būtan (which means “out of, outside of, off, round about, except, without, all but, but only, besides, in addition to, in spite of, except that, save, but, only, unless, save that, if only, provided that, outside”), equivalent to be- +‎ out. Cognate with Scots but, bot (which means “outside, without, but”), Saterland Frisian buute (which means “without”), West Frisian bûten (which means “outside of, apart from, other than, except, but”), Dutch buiten (which means “outside”), German Low German buuten, buute (which means “outside”), Dutch Low Saxon buten (which means “outside”). Compare bin, about.

Spread

In 2016, a Maltese YouTuber, grandayy uploaded "We are number one but memes" in each videos, then was followed by more YouTubers about 11 months ago, the other memes, including "Shooting Stars but…….", and "All Star but………"

Even as far as Replacement remixes called "but every time" or "but everytime" which is a meme, YouTube user "Talking Nonsense", uploading his first video, entitled "PPAP but every time they say pen it gets bass boosted". See below

Since 2007, the Filipino-American cartoon "The Nutshack" used in video called "The Nutshack but……." .