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What Do You Mean You Forgot The Chicken Nuggets
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About
"What Do You Mean You Forgot the Chicken Nuggets" is a LOLcat image macro series based on pictures of cats looking disappointed or unamused (because you forgot the chicken nuggets). Also see: X is not amused.
Origin
The earliest known instance of the "Chicken Nuggets" caption can be found in a YouTube video uploaded on September 21st, 2006, featuring an image of Serious Cat, a well-known LOLcat that became popular around the same time, and a voicedub ranting about the absence of chicken nuggets.
Spread
Throughout 2006, the phrase became closely associated with with Serious Cat image macros on 4chan[1], as well as spawning a variety of animated videos on YouTube[2]. The macro series continued to propagate through LOLcat hubsites like Cheezburger[3] and LOLcatz[4], while the phrase became a topic of discussion on forums like Yahoo Answers[5], Something Awful[6] and eBaums World[7]. There is also a Facebook Page[8] dedicated to the animated YouTube video, though it has a limited number of followers.
Video Derivatives
On May 5th, 2010, YouTuber piepuppy89 posted a short cartoon featuring a boy and Serious Cat in the style of Japanese animation short series Mameshiba[9]:
On July 16th, 2010, YouTuber dn3633 uploaded a dramatic version of piepuppy89's "What Do You Mean You Forgot the Chicken Nuggets" video, featuring the soundtrack from the 2002 British horror film 28 Days Later:
Search Interest
External References
[1] SWFchan – What Do You Mean You Forgot the Chicken Nuggets
[2] YouTube- Search Results for What Do You Mean You Forgot the Chicken Nuggets?
[3] Cheezburger – What Do You Mean You Forgot the Chicken Nuggets?
[4] LOLcatz – What Do You Mean You Forgot the Chicken Nuggets
[5] Yahoo Answers – What is this supposed to mean? It's of a cat and it says 'What do you mean you forgot the chicken nuggets?'
[6] SomethingAwful Forum – Sometimes, I wish I had the courage to talk to my own wife / Posted on 9/27/2009
[7] eBaums World – Internets = Serious Business
[8] Facebook – What do you mean you forgot the chicken nuggets
