Being online games with a heavy emphasis on player interaction, it's only natural that plenty of memes would spawn from them.
Memes from the games:
- The Bruce smiley was made to resemble Bruce Campbell, down to the chin and the facial details. It soon became memetically popular due to its unusually realistic design. Several forum users showcased it in their avatars, and others created Fan Art or even Fan Fiction.
- The BJSPPS. It's a Bishop smiley on top of a statue on top of a pot covered by a bush. It became popular for players to put them in their worlds.
- code pls explanation The edit code is the password used to gain edit access to a world. Sometimes players will say something like this when they ask for code.
- cod explanation A further corrupted version of "code," often used to reference the actual fish. Users will sometimes reference this by placing fishes in their world. An unofficial Discord server uses "gib cod" as one of its chat icons.
- pls notroll explanation "Notroll" and variations are often used by free edit world owners to tell users not to destroy the world.
- edit pls explanation When world owners got the ability to give and take edit access from players one at a time, this pretty much became the memetic replacement.
- Hi. Goodbye. Help me! Thank you. Follow me. Stop! No. Yes. Left. Right. explanation From left to right, these are the messages sent by the quickchat buttons. Back when chat costed a small amount of money, users without chat would often use them to communicate. Even though regular chat has since been made free, the quickchat messages are still often used repeatedly for comedic effect.
- The user Benje00 being a secret moderator. He was once one of the most popular users not to have chat, when users had to pay a small fee for chat. As such, people would often joke that Benje00 is an undercover moderator. This became Hilarious in Hindsight when he did actually become a moderator.
- three blue key method explanation Starting September 2018 or earlier, many users started making cryptic references to a "three blue key method", involving three blue key blocks in a horizontal line.
Memes from the Official Everybody Edits Forums:
- The "Fishbowl Astronaut" explanation The Astronaut Smiley got replaced from the game with a more realistic version. When people complained, people realized the original version looked like a smiley with a fish bowl on its head and nicknamed it the Fishbowl Astronaut, which quickly became a popular joke. As of September 2017, it's in the game as a classic item.
- HELp explanation A user registered the account "Tipocarlos" on the forum and started posting, as an impostor of the real player named Tipocarlos. The real Tipocarlos eventually registered as real_tipocarlos and posted "HELp" with no context, quickly catching on with the forum. The full story can be read here
. - When the user Danielcool1 started uploading low-quality videos to YouTube of himself playing Everybody Edits, it became popular to jokingly praise him and his work. This eventually became a bit less ironic when he uploaded his "How people see the Everybody Edits coin sound" video to good reception.
- demod [moderator] explanation In 2016, a topic named "demod zoey" was made to support the firing of Zoey2070 as a forum moderator. Other users followed this up with "demod koya" and "Demod hummerz" topics later that year.
- Vision blockers when? explanation Vision blockers are a popular suggestion on the forum, with heavy support from regular forum users and staff alike. Users would often bring up vision blockers to the point where it became a common joke. The meme was finally answered when Everybody Edits Universe added Vision Zones.
- EE when explanation A similar question for the upcoming Everybody Edits!, from the perceived long wait.
- Everybody Edits. Yeah. explanation A quote from the "EveryBody Edits Song," which is usually considered So Bad, It's Good for its lack of rhythmic syncing, low-quality vocal track, and generally off-sounding melody. It's even been acknowledged by the Everybody Edits Staff.
- This game you see... explanation Often, users will quote the song one lyric at a time.
- we might campaign this explanation Used to joke about potential campaigns that would be a bad idea in reality. This quickly became a joke among the staff when Master1 jokingly used it in multiple different forum posts.
- jar jar JUMP explanation In April 2018, the forum was raided with various LEGO Star Wars related threads. The meme that caught on briefly was "jar jar JUMP."
- Early 2019explanation In February 2018, former game owner Xenonetix predicted the Everybody Edits Universe Beta Launch would happen in early 2019, "if not sooner". The Closed Beta was finally announced September 2019, leading to numerous jokes for the following years about the Schedule Slip. It would often be used as shorthand for any indeterminate future date, or brought up when critiquing the pace of development.
Memes from IRC and Discord:
- We believe in seventh chances. explanation Often used to mock the perceived looseness of the staff in letting rule-breakers get extra chances.
- swoot explanation The "woot" icon (a star with a ribbon on it) is often used in the Discord chat as a reaction to messages they like or agree with. The "swoot" icon, which means either "sarcastic woot" or "slanted woot" is often used as an ironic version of a woot.
