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The HMS Undaunted refers to a British Royal Navy ship built in 1807. Notably, it took former French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte to exile on Elba in 1815. In early 2025, a picture of the boat (a painting by Thomas Whitcombe) was spammed in Twitter / X replies often paired with the catchphrase, "All aboard!" The trend was started by X user @GodfreyGGolden, a parody account pretending to be Gleeks Candidate Godfrey G. Golden. The trend gained significant spread after X user @ChiefofIsaac became the subject of HMS Undaunted spam replies left under a video he posted of an opossum eating Fruit Loops breakfast cereal.

Origin

The HMS Undaunted was a British Royal Navy ship that was built in 1807. It took former French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte to exile in Elba in 1815. On Wikipedia, ^[1] the main image for the ship's entry is a painting by late artist Thomas Whitcombe titled HMS 'Undaunted' off Dover (shown below).

On January 5th, 2025, X^[2] user @GodfreyGGolden (a parody account pretending to be Godfrey G. Golden —
an imaginary U.S. presidential candidate who's a green version of Joe Biden) replied to a tweet with Whitcombe's painting, captioned, "the ominous HMS undaunted," receiving eight likes in a month (shown below).

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On January 19th, 2025, X^[3] user @GodfreyGGolden quote tweeted another post that read, "Fuck, I'm into paws." @GodfreyGGolden told his followers, "Everyone reply with this don’t question it" (shown below).

On February 19th, X^[4] user @ChiefofIsaac tweeted a video of an opossum eating Fruit Loops, gaining over 20,000 likes in two days. A few hours later, X^[5] user @GodfreyGGolden replied to the post with the painting of the HMS Undaunted, gaining over 900 likes in two days (shown below).

On February 20th, 2025, X^[6] user @Hmuhmuhum replied to @ChiefofIsaac's tweet with an Alamy stock photo of a colonial sailor shouting in all caps, "AAAALLLLL ABOOOOAAAARDDDD!!!!!!" The reply received over 9,300 likes in a day (shown below).

Multiple replies to the X^[7][8] post then attached exploited versions of the HMS Undaunted.

On February 20th, X^[9] user @ChiefofIsaac quote tweeted his opossum video, asking, "What the fuck do the replies mean?" amassing over 93,000 likes in a day (shown below).

On February 20th, 2025, X^[10] user @plonk97d replied to the abovementioned post with a video recording of all the HMS Undaunted replies and a loud voiceover of the sailor shouting, "All aboard!" The video gained over 11,000 likes in a day (shown below).

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— plonk (@plonk97d) February 20, 2025

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