History Memes / TeamFortress2

* 124 HP Scouts [[labelnote:Explanation]] Scouts are {{Fragile Speedster}}s with the smallest health pool out of any class, so for survivability they seek out health packs and call for Medics more frequently. However, many tend to have poor health management and do this regardless of their actual remaining health, and their high movement speed means they can quickly beeline towards the nearest health pack before other classes can reach it, often leaving their teammates without any means of undoing damage other than Medics or dispensers. This led to the stereotype of mostly healthy Scouts snatching up health packs right in front of their wounded teammates and leaving them to die, or constantly spamming the E key upon receiving even the slightest scratch.[[/labelnote]]

* The Seal Update[[labelnote:Explanation]]The nickname for the Summer 2023 update, as one of the fanmade maps included was pd_Selbyen, which includes an animated seal that crawls across the map and into the sea.[[/labelnote]]

** "He could be in this very room! He could be you! He could be ''me''!"[[labelnote:Explanation]]The BLU Spy's summary of the ParanoiaFuel inspired by the RED Spy, shortly before the Soldier kills him. Used as a companion to any image that stays "1 in [X] people are [Y]" or any situation in which someone might infiltrate a group.[[/labelnote]]

* Pop it, don't drop it[[labelnote:Explanation]]A ''WebAnimation/TeamServiceAnnouncement'' video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz5BU44_h74 that teaches new players to learn that a popped uber is better than a wasted one]] had the Medic… well, doing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=yz5BU44_h74&t=43 this.]] The phrase itself is much older, being a common piece of advice for new medics, but then [=YouTube=] user Crazyhalo, along with Chaofanatic and anangrysockpuppet, created [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j_qzQQWXos a replacement for the Medic and Heavy's Meet the Medic and Schadenfreude taunt]], respectively. Not only did this end up creating a small meme, but it ended up ''increasing the costs for the Meet the Medic taunt just because of how popular it was.''[[/labelnote]]

* "<PLAYER> bid farewell, cruel world!" [[labelnote:explanation]]This is the message that displays in the kill feed whenever a player commits suicide. Many players have set up a dedicated button (known as a killbind) to do this on command, and one person using theirs will often result in other nearby players following suit [[SuicieAsComedy for a laugh.]][[/labelnote]]

* [VALVE]N***rkiller / "RIP Casual" [[labelnote:Explanation]]In the early months of 2020, the game was hit with a wave of cheaters, mainly bots playing as Sniper with aimbot to the point that any time you'd join a Casual match, there would ''always'' be at least one of these bots. One of the more common names for these bots was "[VALVE]N***rkiller", albeit uncensored. Steam does not allow for these names to be used as VALVE would automatically be censored, as would the slur.[[/labelnote]]
** OMEGATRONIC / Name Feigning [[labelnote:Explanation]]OMEGATRONIC was also a common name following N***rkiller bots, complete with their own unique brand of avatars. Alongside these bots, certain bots stole names of users in the game, resulting in the wrong player being kicked, which prompted a quality of life patch in where the vote kick UI will display how long players have been connected for. Generic bot names are now used after a fix that prevented players from changing names to anything other than their Steam name after joining a server.[[/labelnote]]

* "<PLAYER> bid farewell, cruel world!" [[labelnote:explanation]]This is the message that displays in the kill feed whenever a player commits suicide. Many players have set up a dedicated button (known as a killbind) to do this on command, and one person using theirs will often result in other nearby players following suit [[SuicieAsComedy for a laugh.]]]]

** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebw6G6sIeHw Slap my ass!]]"[[labelnote:Explanation]]a popular doctored quote of the above, usually accompanied with sounds of the Soldier's [[WhipItGood Disciplinary Action]] and the yells of "YEEEEEEEEEEEEEES! YES! MON DIEU!"[[/labelnote]]

* Soupcan Pyro [[labelnote:Explanation]]An odd creature that appears as a Pyro living in a small bucket in a manner akin to a hermit crab, debuting in the ''VideoGame/GarrysMod'' machinima video "[[https://youtu.be/4LSEMygUnxY?t=33 Monday's Troubles]] by WebAnimation/STBlackST. Dubbed the Soupcan Pyro, it became very popular within the community thanks to its adorable looks.[[/labelnote]]

* Soupcan Pyro [[labelnote:Explanation]]An odd creature that appears as a Pyro living in a small bucket in a manner akin to a hermit crab, debuting in the ''VideoGame/GarrysMod'' machinima video "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LSEMygUnxY&t=117s&ab_channel=STBlackST Monday's Troubles]] by WebAnimation/STBlackST. Dubbed the Soupcan Pyro, it became very popular within the community thanks to its adorable looks.[[/labelnote]]

* Thicc Pyro [[labelnote:Explanation]] A meme originating from a YouTuber, WebVideo/{{Pyrocynical}}, checking his loadouts during a stream, seeing that he had a mod giving Pyro a… let’s just say generously sized rump still enabled, and immediately [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere ending the stream]]. The clip quickly went viral with people reposting the clip and making fanart of his Pyro. [[/labelnote]]

* "Screw You! I am gonna go play Minecraft"[[labelnote:Explanation]]A Running Gag In Most of Lazypurple's How It feels to play (Classes) in Team Fortress 2, The First time this running gag appeared was in How it feels to play engineer where most of the Mercs are involved attack Lazy's Sentry but the scout isn't involved because Lazy thinks because he knows his place and then a scene where the BLU Engie was pushing the cart but killed by a Sentry as Scout was hiding leading to Lazy Laughing at him and Scout saying it then Vanishes, This running gag happened when Lazy Killed them and their ragdolls falls to the ground saying "Screw You! I am gonna go play Minecraft" and then Disappeared leading Lazy to be confused [[/labelnote]]

* "Screw You! I am gonna play Minecraft"[[labelnote:Explanation]]A Running Gag In Most of Lazypurple's How It feels to play (Classes) in Team Fortress 2, The First time this running gag appeared was in How it feels to play engineer where most of the Mercs are involved attack Lazy's Sentry but the scout isn't involved because Lazy thinks because he knows his place and then a scene where the BLU Engie was pushing the cart but killed by a Sentry as Scout was hiding leading to Lazy Laughing at him and Scout saying it then Vanishes, This running gag happened when Lazy Killed them and their ragdolls falls to the ground saying "Screw You! I am gonna play Minecraft" and then Disappeared leading Lazy to be confused [[/labelnote]]

* Most of the characters' {{Catch Phrase}}s have attained memetic status, some of which have become {{Ascended Meme}}s. Outside of that, nearly ''all'' of their lines are fodder for [[StupidStatementDanceMix getting mashed up with each other and spat out in-game]], thanks to an easily accessible library of all the audio clips and a [[http://www.hlss.us/ couple]] [[http://www.hldj.org/ tools]] that allow playing back clips over mic chat.

* '''''[[{{Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure}} ZA HANDO]]''''' [[note]]A popular rename for the Hot Hand, helped in no small part by the fact that one of its attack animations is a downward swipe; [[ADateWithRosiePalms Other jokes]] are following in hot pursuit.[[/note]]

* [[WebVideo/SearchForSandvich The Sandvich Saga]] [[labelnote:Explanation]]In mid-to-late 2022, all the surviving voice actors for the game's main characters main characters (excluding Nathan Vetterlein) began posting a series of videos of themselves looking for Heavy's sandvich, occasionally dressed up as their characters to do so. This inevitably led to fans animating said scenes with Source, or otherwise sharing them around online, simply due to [[RefugeInAudacity the sheer hilarity of several veteran voice actors running around shouting about sandwiches in random voices.]] [[/labelnote]]

[[folder:Official Valve Statements]]

* The potted plant and the janitor. [[labelnote:Explanation]]Joke lampooning the very slow release of updates, with players suggesting that those two are the only things left running the game.[[/labelnote]]

* The one Valve developer maintaining [=TF2=] [[labelnote:Explanation]]With Valve interaction at an all-time low going through 2021, and developers relocated to other projects within Valve, the game is memed to be assigned to a single Valve employee.[[/labelnote]]

* Pootis Engage [[labelnote:Explanation]][[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl6lee2wyPQ Pootis Engage]] is a fan-made video about two Heavies that battle a series of [[{{Mook}} Mooks]] in a quest for anime girls. In particular, a scene in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGJBUauU-CE the sequel]] became popular to use in BaitAndSwitch memes, with the Heavies having an epic fight scene with a Soldier. [[/labelnote]]

** Demoman finds out [x] [[labelnote:Explanation]]One popular series of 15.ai videos involves scenarios where a merc -- usually the Demoman -- discovers that his coworkers secretly have some specific inclination, fetish, or bizarre hobby, and angrily chastises them for it. The activity in question tends to be one of several AcceptableHobbyTargets on the Internet, such as an masturbating to {{hentai}}, having a [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom furry fetish]], etc.[[/labelnote]]

* Pootis Engage [[labelnote:Explanation]][[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl6lee2wyPQ Pootis Engage]] is a fan-made video about two Heavies that battle a series of [[{{Mook}} Mooks]] in a quest for anime girls. In particular, a scene in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGJBUauU-CE the sequel]] became popular to use in BaitAndSwitch memes, with the Heavies having an epic fight scene with a Soldier.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHKIOJPSgAg Team Fortress 2 doesn't even need autotune]] [[labelnote:Explanation]] An animation consisting of the mercs playing a polka song by Music/WeirdAlYankovic became popular in early March 2023 under this caption, along with a few others. The original video can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WImlx3tmssY here]].

** Ubersaw crits [[labelnote:Explanation]] Medics have a reputation for pulling out their melee weapons when cornered and one-shotting pursuers with a crit ''on the first swing''. This is due to how healing a teammate while they deal damage to enemies builds up the Medic's crit chance, which makes up a major part of Medic gameplay. Because most Medic mains [[ComplacentGamingSyndrome tend to choose the Ubersaw]] -- which gives 25% ubercharge on kill -- as their melee weapon of choice, players often claim that the weapon secretly has a higher crit chance than others, whether jokingly or seriously.[[/labelnote]]