About

I Think I Will Cause Problems On Purpose is a catchphrase used online as a caption to depictions of a mischievous character. After first appearing on Tumblr, the phrase became popularly associated with the goose in Untitled Goose Game.

Origin

On June 2nd, 2019, Tumblr user wizardjpeg^[1] posted an illustration of a wizard bearing a mischievous grin, captioning the picture "I think I will cause problems on purpose." The post gained over 48,000 notes (shown below).

Spread

Over the following weeks, the post spread thanks in part to wizardjpeg's replies to others reblogging the wizard. For example, in response to a user who replied, "No! Bad wizard!", wizardjpeg wrote, "too late bozo im diving right into the thick of it all and doing as much damage to the concept of civilization as i possibly can." The full post was posted to iFunny^[2] on July 1st, 2019 (shown below, left). After the phrase spread with the Tumblr post, it began to be popularly paired with Untitled Goose Game. On September 27th, 2019, Twitter user @kittynouveau posted an image macro in which the text was overlaid on the titular goose, gaining over 11,000 retweets and 46,000 likes (shown below, right).

The phrase appeared in various other edits starring the Goose. For example, Redditor abrasivetroop posted an edit in /r/dankmemes on September 30th (shown below, left). User Jdharper cross stitched the phrase and the goose, gaining over 2,800 points in /r/crossstitch (shown below, right).

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