Foo Fighters vs. the Foo
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![Foo Foos 1 are white cloud-like enemies that first appeared in New Super Mario Bros. Wii. They produce fog that can obscure the player's view. Foos can be defeated with any kind of attack. Their name comes from Fwoosh, a similar enemy from Super Mario 64 and its remake that blows wind. Additionally. Twisters from Super Mario Maker 2 were originally going to have a Foo-like design. Foo Contents [hide] 1 History 1.1 Super Mario series 1.1.1 New Super Mario Bros, Wi 1.1.2 New Super Mario Bros. U 1.1.2.1 New Super Luigi U 1.2 Mario Party 10 2 Names in other languages 3 References A Foo in New Super Mario Bros. U First New Super Mario Bros. Wii History [edit] appearance (2009) Latest New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe Super Mario series [edit] (2019) appearance Variant of Fwoosh New Super Mario Bros. Wii [edit] Comparable New Super Mario Bros. Wii marks Foos' debut appearance. They appear only in World 7-5, and create fog periodically. Stonk The fog vanishes after a few seconds and can be blown away by Spin Jumping, or by propelling as Propeller Mario. New Super Mario Bros. U [edit] In New Super Mario Bros. U, Foos appear only in Snaking above Mist Valley and behave the same as they did previously. New Super Luigi U [edit] A group of Foos fire clouds at Mario Foos also appear in New Super Luigi U. Here, they are only found in Three-Headed Snake Block. Mario Party 10 [edit] Foos play a role in the Mario Party 10 minigame Foo Me Once, where they blow fog over platforms the players need to remember.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/list/001/763/757/ead.png "This is what they're fighting")
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Foo Fighters vs. the Foo refers to a series of jokes and memes which imagine the rock band Foo Fighters protecting the society from a threat known as "foo." Originating from a Dam Edit meme posted in December 2019, the joke gained significant popularity online in mid-February 2020.
Origin
On December 6th, 2019, Facebook[1] group Dolphinger Center for Memetic Studies posted a Dam Edit meme which imagined the rock band Foo Fighters as a force defending society from Foo. The meme received 540 reactions and 3,500 shares in two months. On December 7th, Redditor[2] AfricanAmericanNigga reposted the meme to /r/dankmemes, where it received over 33,100 upvotes in the same period.
Precursor
A November 12th, 2006, the Robot Chicken episode "Anne Marie's Pride" features a sketch in which Foo Fighters join Mr. T in fighting "foos" (as in "fools").[14]
Spread
On December 6th, 2019, several Facebook users posted more memes based on the joke in the comment section of the original post, including memes posted by Cole McCorkendale[3] and Deric Boyer[4] (shown top and bottom left). After the December 7th Reddit repost of the meme, several low-upvoted posts based on the joke also appeared on Reddit[5][6] in the following days. A similar meme about Street Fighter posted by Redditor[7] tehflyingeagle on December 11th similar received over 8,300 upvotes in /r/okbuddyretard (shown below, bottom right).
The format did not see notable spread until on January 29th, 2019, Redditor[8] ITaHiR_Requiem posted a JoJo's Bizarre Adventure meme based on the joke to /r/okbuddyretard subreddit, where it received over 2,600 upvotes in three weeks (shown below, top). The popularity of the format was prompted further when on February 10th, 2020, Twitter[9] user @TF2Cursed posted a Team Fortress 2 version of the meme which received over 2,300 retweets and 7,600 likes in ten days (shown below, bottom).
— tea fotres too (@Tf2Cursed) February 11, 2020
Starting in mid-February 2020, the joke gained a notable presense on Reddit and Twitter. For example, a February 17th, 2020, post by Redditor[10] boab_129 received over 32,200 upvotes in three days.
Meaning of the Word "Foo"
The band Foo Fighters takes their name from "foo fighters," a collective name for UFOs and other aerieal phenomena reported by the Allied aircraft pilots during World War II.[11] The nonsense word "foo" emerged in popular culture during the early 1930s, first used by cartoonist Bill Holman in his Smokey Stover strip.[12][13] The term was allegedly borrowed by a radar operator Donald J. Meiers during the war, who dubbed the unidentified aerial objects "foo fighters." For the lack of a better name, the phrase stuck.
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[1] Facebook – Dolphinger Center for Memetic Studies
[2] Reddit – Foo fighter
[3] Facebook – Cole McCorkendale
[4] Facebook – Deric Boyer
[5] Reddit – Thank you for your service
[6] Reddit – Not a JoJo reference
[7] Reddit – my dad b like:
[8] Reddit – stupid fucking foo i hate you
[9] Twitter – @Tf2Cursed
[10] Reddit – Thank you for your service
[11] Wikipedia – Foo Fighters
[12] Wikipedia – Foo Fighter
[13] Faqs – Etymology of 'Foo'
[14] Wikipedia – Robot Chicken
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