The miss that would go down in osu! meme history forever.
It's no surprise that a community with osu!'s size has spawned a mountain of memes about their players and historical moments.
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General memes
- Airman is undefeatable.
- FOUR CORNERS OF DOOM.
- Once you're here, you're here forever.◊note Referencing how notoriously difficult it is to quit the game, especially for a lot of top players who inevitably come back.
- Play morenote osu! veterans occasionally get fed up with answering trivial questions about improvement from those who have just started the game and want to see instant results. Some take to just telling these new players to "play more," which has become a meme due to how often it has to be said.
- Ohio State Universitynote When you search "osu" on Google, results for Ohio State University (or OSU) will inadvertently come up instead of the game's website. This has led many to joke that "osu!" actually stands for the university's name. Students of the university have also taken notice of this, in part due to their subreddit occasionally getting posts about the game, and some even play along with the joke.
- imperial dead bicycle lolnote References Imperial Circus Dead Decadence, a Japanese metal group that is popular on osu!, and pokes fun at their overly long band name.
- X is osu! original songExplanation Due to a lot of songs being associated with osu! even if they originated in other rhythm games, a lot of critics of the game and its community like to sarcastically remark that so-and-so song is an "osu original song", with "Brain Power" being one of the most common candidates, especially once it got removed from SOUND VOLTEX where the song was first released.
- Combo-based scoringExplanation A recurring complaint and meme about this game from fans of other rhythm games is that scoring is heavily based on a multiplier proportional to the player's current combo. As such, the leaderboards frequently feature players getting higher scores than players with higher accuracy, all because the higher-scoring player held onto a full combo or at least saved their misses for the very end of the song while the lower-scoring player prioritized hitting 300s.
- It's like osu! but _____Explanation A Fandom-Enraging Misconception amongst fans of other rhythm games is to claim that a particular game is inspired by, or worse, a ripoff of osu!. Even just saying a game looks like it tends to draw complaints from fans of those games. Some fans of those games like to ironically claim that the game in question is "like osu!, but" with a Dissimile expression that makes the game not like osu! at all.
Player-related memes
- rrtyui troll endingsnote One of the best osu! players in the early 2010's, rrtyui, was known for his "troll endings," where he would intentionally miss on the last note of a map to break his full combo.
- 727note In 2016, Cookiezi, one of the best players of all time, set the pp record on xi - Blue Zenith [FOUR DIMENSIONS] +HR, worth 727pp. The fact that the play was a choke (not a full combo) turned "727" into a huge meme in the community, as a sort of cursed number that pops up when people least expect it to. It only grew in notoriety when Cookiezi revisited the map with +HDHR, choked again, and got 727pp. Again.
- how about fc cry thunder first and say that me againnote In some friendly banter, Cookiezi snaps back at Happystick with this after being called out on not being able to full combo Ice Angel +HR (a comparatively easier map). Its terse delivery and poor grammar have led it to be a huge meme in the community, with it being brought up every time someone makes any sort of play on a Cry Thunder map, especially if someone manages to full combo it (where someone will inevitably say that X player can now "say that him again").
- Azer isn't so great? Are you kidding me?
- It gets even funnier when you realize that this copypasta is originally from the competitive Smash community, about a player whose name is also "Alex." In fact, it's arguably used more in the osu! community nowadays.
- Someone actually paid real money to have this copypasta recited. Azer absolutely loses it.
- HowlWater's doubletappingnote HowlWater is infamous in the community for being one of the most blatant cheaters in the game. His "playstyle" involved double tapping, which is essentially mashing both hit keys to increase your chances of hitting the next note, at the cost of your accuracy. This was seen as a "cheesy" way to play (even if he was legitimate) and a poor cover-up for his cheating antics, and as such, was memed on by the entire community.
- Turn My Swag Onnote Another meme relating to HowlWater. After he set a nearly impossible, extremely low accuracy +HD,HR,DT full combo on Mismagius's infamous "pensamento tipico de esquerda caviar" map, he immediately played a map of Soulja Boy's "Turn My Swag On" before logging off. The community found it humorous that he had the audacity to celebrate this way after blatantly cheating a score, and top players would soon jokingly imitate him by doing this exact same thing after setting (legitimate) groundbreaking scores of their own.
- Totoki Replay Editornote After former top player Totoki was exposed of cheating, not only in solo play but also in a tournament with a cash prize, and was restricted, prominent community member Mismagius (Blue Dragon) adapted the Burger King Foot Lettuce copypasta to mock Totoki's actions, which itself became a copypasta in the community.
- Toy rolling a 1 (sound warning)note Toy, one of the best tourney players of all time, is infamous for being unlucky during pre-match rolling, which decides who gets to pick the first map. One of his teammates, fieryrage, was notably not happy about this, with his outburst of "OH MY GOD TOY, OH MY GOD DAMNIT, WHAT THE FUCK" being immortalized in the community and repurposed to praise Toy whenever he sets an amazing play.
- algorithm designed in javanote After top player Rafis set the pp record on Necro Fantasia +HD,DT, a reddit user made a satirical post that suggested Rafis had cheated the score. One of their many intentionally outrageous claims was that Rafis used an "algorithm designed in java" to manipulate his pen movements, a phrase that is now jokingly spammed whenever a top player's cursor behaves erratically during a play.
- t[-_-t]note The current username of an American player, the high BPM and finger control specialist Tony, who has a history of odd username changes including "legendcrazyman" and "he rack." He made this change shortly before OWC 2019, to the chagrin of every commentator who had to explain who the man behind this Flipping the Bird username was.
- Aireu在Lil'Slugger戰役中得到91％note In an accuracy-based tournament, top player Aireu (then known as lain) got 91.54% on a map known as "The Battle of Lil' Slugger", costing his team the point. His team was one point away from winning the tournament, and after this throw, they suffered a brutal reversal with their opponents being able to force the tiebreaker, but luckily managed to win. His teammates then spammed this after the tournament ended as a jab towards his performance.
- This copypasta would begin a trend in the osu! community to intersperse English words within Chinese text to cryptically describe notable situations. Some of them keep the characters and format used above, even when the resulting sentence is nonsensical (such as "Finnish在OWC戰役中得到Scandal").
- whiteDOABLEnote An emote on the current #1 player WhiteCat's Twitch channel, meant as a motivation emote for his viewers to reaffirm him that a beatmap is "doable" for him to full combo. Players in the community then started using the phrase "whitedoable" in place of the word "doable" due to how silly it sounds when taken out of context.
- The Intercambing Methodnote Refers to top Chilean player Intercambing, who is one of the strongest tournament players in the country, with his "method" being, of course, carrying his team to victory. Usually accompanied by a Zalgo distortion for emphasis.
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