About

Tell An Amazing Fact refers to a series of image macros featuring the Microsoft digital desktop assistant BonziBuddy. The meme contains two parts, the first shows BonziBuddy reading a piece of paper, as a cursor selects "Tell An Amazing Fact." The second part shows BonziBuddy looking up with a speech bubble above it that contains an offensive, absurd or humorous phrase.

Origin

"Tell An Amazing Fact" features the processes from and image of BonziBuddy, a digital desktop assistant, introduced on Microsoft's Window platform in 1999. The purple gorilla mascot, however, did not appear until 2000.^[2] In addition to adding search bars to web browsers without user consent, leading to a lawsuit, users could ask BonziBuddy do things like sing, dance and tell jokes and "amazing facts."

On July 9th, 2017, Redditor vader1941 posted the earliest known version of the "Tell An Amazing Fact" meme on the subreddit /r/ImGoingToHellForThis.^[1] In this version, BonziBuddy's "Amazing Fact" is "Hitler did nothing wrong." The thread received more than 300 points (89% upvoted).

Spread

One week later, on July 16th, Redditor manman778 posted a variation of the meme featuring the "fact" "Anime is gay." The post (shown below, left) received more than 3,000 points (93% upvoted) within one week.^[3]

On July 24th, two separate threads on the subreddit /r/MemeEconomy pointed to "Amazing Fact" as a potential new meme worthy of attention. Redditor FatMonkey4 posted two versions version with the "facts": "Apes are fish in disguise" and "Death is optional" (shown below, center and right, respectively).^[4][5]

Various Examples

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