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== {{Featured article candidate}} ==
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I believe this page should be a featured article because i found it very informational. Newbies might be confused when people talk about spycrabs and W+M1. I actually figured  out the meaning of W+M1 on this page. Please make this a featured article.
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== Weed Soldier ==
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The Weed Soldier refers to this image:
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User PantsPlant Weed Soldier.jpg
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The image was originaly created as an edit of a scene from TEChulus's video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZgZ8JrSbpg Crystal Weed] which came out on September of 2013, it is unknown who created the edit, but one of the first notable uses of the image was done by the tf2 youtuber Rapid シ as the thubnail of his video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8crH4zBPbk&t=3s WEED IS NOW LEGAL IN TF2] which came out on February of 2015.
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;Resurgence
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Up to this point the Weed Soldier image (also dubbed :weed:) was just a random tf2 joke image, nothing more, nothing less, but the meme became very big in the community of the youtuber Chimparoncito around 2022, the image started to see use, in game on Conscientious Objector and outside of it like in profile pictures on several sites (mostly on steam), and even recreated in other games like MineCraft, this was all done because of challenge streams Chimparoncito did in which he closes the stream if he sees the image at all while playing tf2, the more times he did the challenge the harder it became, and the more popular the image became in the tf2 community at large.
  
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At this point the image started to have variations of it created on the other classes, and was commonly used together with by this [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsiYj6KOvXc&t=80s remix of Rocket Jump Waltz](created on April of 2020 by skylinee).
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Its most recent notable use happened on July of 2023 when the youtuber Richter Overtime used an [https://freeimage.host/i/JHeUCfR edited version of the image] with the word "Its Over" for the thumbnail of his video about the tf2 leak [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8un3dBLVSCw "Explaining TF2's Biggest Leak Ever"]
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;Popular Uses Of The Image
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UUZUyjVc_c 1]-common edit video of the classes.
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[https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fi5b2qux6hhfb1.png 2]-loadout created in tf2.
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[https://freeimage.host/i/JHeSSVf 3]-the image recreated insdie of MineCraft.
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[https://freeimage.host/i/JHeUOgV 4]-a fad created about Richter Overtime's use of the :Weed: in the thumbnail of his video.
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[https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fdwhf8xjl1zdb1.png 5]-:weed: on r/place 2023.
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[[User:PantsPlant|PantsPlant]]
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([[User talk:PantsPlant|talk]]) 00:49, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
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[[User:PantsPlant|PantsPlant]] ([[User talk:PantsPlant|talk]]) 16:27, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
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:Personally, I think although it does see a lot of usage, it isn't really notable. It seems like only a few notable YouTubers have the image as a popular fad in their community and it has only appeared a few times in the TF2 community as a whole. The most usage the fad sees seems to be related to one person's usage of the image in a thumbnail, which the thumbnail itself is the focus and not the Soldier image itself.<br>[[File:BLU Wiki Cap.png|20px|link=Wiki Cap]] | [[Help:Group rights|<span style="color:green;font-family:TF2 Build;">s</span>]] | [[User:GrampaSwood|<font color="DB9C1F">GrampaSwood</font>]] ([[User talk:GrampaSwood|<font color="DB9C1F">talk</font>]]) 01:01, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
  
I have a number of memes that I know that are worthy of mention here.
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::I agree with GrampaSwood. While I've seen it a few times, it doesn't seem notable enough to be mentioned here. - [[User:BrazilianNut|BrazilianNut]] ([[User talk:BrazilianNut|talk]]) 02:39, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
  
[[User:Thunder|Thunder]]
 
  
==Future Additions==
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== Demoman MOO! ==
  
This page is pretty full, but it is still missing:
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{{Quotation|Demoman saying Move up!|'''MOO'''-ve that gear up!|sound=Demoman_moveup02.wav}}
*Humping Sniper[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hUH4vcK0EU]
 
*HWM models in Garry's Mod (although this is probably part of a bigger Garry's Mod category) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqDaMSk00wA]
 
*Golden Machine Gun[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-golden-machine-gun]
 
  
Are these possible additions? --[[User:Focusknock|Focusknock]] 11:43, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
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The Demoman Moo meme is a meme where people play as Demo in 2fort, then they go to the cow right next to the entrance to the intel, and they say Move up while laughing right before Demo says "that."  It should sound like he's saying MOO!
  
On the russian page, there is a TF2 rick roll. Can someone stranslate that to english?
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--[[User:Slimyboi500|Slimyboi500]] ([[User talk:Slimyboi500|talk]]) 15:54, 4 October 2023 (UTC)Slimyboi500 [[File:User Slimyboi500 Profile.jpg|25px]]
- Mentlegen
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:I don't think this is nearly notable enough, considering it's only limited to 2Fort and doesn't see much widespread usage otherwise.<br>[[File:BLU Wiki Cap.png|20px|link=List of Wiki Cap owners]] | [[Help:Group rights|<span style="color:green;font-family:TF2 Build;">s</span>]] | [[User:GrampaSwood|<font color="DB9C1F">GrampaSwood</font>]] [[File:PraisetheSun.png|20px|alt=Praise the Sun!]] ([[User talk:GrampaSwood|<font color="DB9C1F">talk</font>]]) ([[Special:Contributions/GrampaSwood|<font color="DB9C1F">contribs</font>]]) 16:17, 4 October 2023 (UTC)
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::I hadn't heard of it until now, so yeah, I don't think it's notable enough either. - [[User:BrazilianNut|BrazilianNut]] ([[User talk:BrazilianNut|talk]]) 17:14, 4 October 2023 (UTC)
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== Tick Tock ==
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What about adding the fad of the buff mercs posing to Tick Tock by Joji? [[User:CriticalFeesh|CriticalFeesh]] ([[User talk:CriticalFeesh|talk]]) 12:09, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
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:This meme mostly exists in the format of the same few GIFs/images with the same music, I don't think this fits the definition of "fad" very well. It doesn't see much widespread usage outside of the same format (the GIFs with the music under it), unlike other fads here which come in many different forms.<br>[[File:BLU Wiki Cap.png|20px|link=List of Wiki Cap owners]] | [[Help:Group rights|<span style="color:green;font-family:TF2 Build;">s</span>]] | [[User:GrampaSwood|<font color="DB9C1F">GrampaSwood</font>]] [[File:PraisetheSun.png|20px|alt=Praise the Sun!]] ([[User talk:GrampaSwood|<font color="DB9C1F">talk</font>]]) ([[Special:Contributions/GrampaSwood|<font color="DB9C1F">contribs</font>]]) 12:17, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
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== The heavy is dead ==
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{{Quotation|'''The Medic''' reacting to Heavy's Death|'''HEAVY IS DEAD!'''|sound=Medic mvm class is dead03.wav}}
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The Heavy is Dead is a Community fad made by [https://www.youtube.com/@Delak_Antoine Delak] on YouTube.
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''The video may be blocked for some users because it is age-restricted.''
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{{Youtube|oiuyhxp4w9I}}
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;"Family Friendly" version
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{{Youtube|wV3fNs53o4k}}
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----[[User:Slimyboi500|Slimyboi500]] ([[User talk:Slimyboi500|talk]]) [[File:User Slimyboi500 Profile.jpg|25px]] 18:29, 23 October 2023 (UTC)
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:Not sure this is really a fad, more just a popular video that people quote. It has largely died down and there isn't any example of it beyond the video itself. I'd vote no<br>[[File:BLU Wiki Cap.png|20px|link=List of Wiki Cap owners]] | [[Help:Group rights|<span style="color:green;font-family:TF2 Build;">s</span>]] | [[User:GrampaSwood|<font color="DB9C1F">GrampaSwood</font>]] [[File:PraisetheSun.png|20px|alt=Praise the Sun!]] ([[User talk:GrampaSwood|<font color="DB9C1F">talk</font>]]) ([[Special:Contributions/GrampaSwood|<font color="DB9C1F">contribs</font>]]) 22:53, 23 October 2023 (UTC)
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== Add Madcap ==
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I think we can add Madcap on here. There's art, loadouts, his theme music and even recently a voice actor. [[User:FrancePain|FrancePain]] ([[User talk:FrancePain|talk]]) 13:55, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
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:I think it would need to prove more long-term popularity. It seems like the popularity is also largely contained to r/tf2. There may also be issues with the fact that the class itself is AI-generated.<br>[[File:BLU Wiki Cap.png|20px|link=List of Wiki Cap owners]] | [[Help:Group rights|<span style="color:green;font-family:TF2 Build;">s</span>]] | [[User:GrampaSwood|<font color="DB9C1F">GrampaSwood</font>]] [[File:PraisetheSun.png|20px|alt=Praise the Sun!]] ([[User talk:GrampaSwood|<font color="DB9C1F">talk</font>]]) ([[Special:Contributions/GrampaSwood|<font color="DB9C1F">contribs</font>]]) 14:10, 25 October 2023 (UTC)

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Weed Soldier

The Weed Soldier refers to this image:

The image was originaly created as an edit of a scene from TEChulus's video Crystal Weed which came out on September of 2013, it is unknown who created the edit, but one of the first notable uses of the image was done by the tf2 youtuber Rapid シ as the thubnail of his video WEED IS NOW LEGAL IN TF2 which came out on February of 2015.

Resurgence

Up to this point the Weed Soldier image (also dubbed :weed:) was just a random tf2 joke image, nothing more, nothing less, but the meme became very big in the community of the youtuber Chimparoncito around 2022, the image started to see use, in game on Conscientious Objector and outside of it like in profile pictures on several sites (mostly on steam), and even recreated in other games like MineCraft, this was all done because of challenge streams Chimparoncito did in which he closes the stream if he sees the image at all while playing tf2, the more times he did the challenge the harder it became, and the more popular the image became in the tf2 community at large.

At this point the image started to have variations of it created on the other classes, and was commonly used together with by this remix of Rocket Jump Waltz(created on April of 2020 by skylinee). Its most recent notable use happened on July of 2023 when the youtuber Richter Overtime used an edited version of the image with the word "Its Over" for the thumbnail of his video about the tf2 leak "Explaining TF2's Biggest Leak Ever"

Popular Uses Of The Image

1-common edit video of the classes.
2-loadout created in tf2.
3-the image recreated insdie of MineCraft.
4-a fad created about Richter Overtime's use of the :Weed: in the thumbnail of his video.
5-:weed: on r/place 2023.
PantsPlant (talk) 00:49, 17 September 2023 (UTC) PantsPlant (talk) 16:27, 17 September 2023 (UTC)

Personally, I think although it does see a lot of usage, it isn't really notable. It seems like only a few notable YouTubers have the image as a popular fad in their community and it has only appeared a few times in the TF2 community as a whole. The most usage the fad sees seems to be related to one person's usage of the image in a thumbnail, which the thumbnail itself is the focus and not the Soldier image itself.
BLU Wiki Cap.png | s | GrampaSwood (talk) 01:01, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
I agree with GrampaSwood. While I've seen it a few times, it doesn't seem notable enough to be mentioned here. - BrazilianNut (talk) 02:39, 17 September 2023 (UTC)


Demoman MOO!

MOO-ve that gear up!
— Demoman saying Move up!

The Demoman Moo meme is a meme where people play as Demo in 2fort, then they go to the cow right next to the entrance to the intel, and they say Move up while laughing right before Demo says "that." It should sound like he's saying MOO!

--Slimyboi500 (talk) 15:54, 4 October 2023 (UTC)Slimyboi500 User Slimyboi500 Profile.jpg

I don't think this is nearly notable enough, considering it's only limited to 2Fort and doesn't see much widespread usage otherwise.
BLU Wiki Cap.png | s | GrampaSwood Praise the Sun! (talk) (contribs) 16:17, 4 October 2023 (UTC)
I hadn't heard of it until now, so yeah, I don't think it's notable enough either. - BrazilianNut (talk) 17:14, 4 October 2023 (UTC)

Tick Tock

What about adding the fad of the buff mercs posing to Tick Tock by Joji? CriticalFeesh (talk) 12:09, 21 October 2023 (UTC)

This meme mostly exists in the format of the same few GIFs/images with the same music, I don't think this fits the definition of "fad" very well. It doesn't see much widespread usage outside of the same format (the GIFs with the music under it), unlike other fads here which come in many different forms.
BLU Wiki Cap.png | s | GrampaSwood Praise the Sun! (talk) (contribs) 12:17, 21 October 2023 (UTC)

The heavy is dead

HEAVY IS DEAD!
The Medic reacting to Heavy's Death

The Heavy is Dead is a Community fad made by Delak on YouTube.

Video

The video may be blocked for some users because it is age-restricted.

"Family Friendly" version

Slimyboi500 (talk) User Slimyboi500 Profile.jpg 18:29, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

Not sure this is really a fad, more just a popular video that people quote. It has largely died down and there isn't any example of it beyond the video itself. I'd vote no
BLU Wiki Cap.png | s | GrampaSwood Praise the Sun! (talk) (contribs) 22:53, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

Add Madcap

I think we can add Madcap on here. There's art, loadouts, his theme music and even recently a voice actor. FrancePain (talk) 13:55, 25 October 2023 (UTC)

I think it would need to prove more long-term popularity. It seems like the popularity is also largely contained to r/tf2. There may also be issues with the fact that the class itself is AI-generated.
BLU Wiki Cap.png | s | GrampaSwood Praise the Sun! (talk) (contribs) 14:10, 25 October 2023 (UTC)