Description[]
Engineer Gaming is a Team Fortress 2 meme that took the TF2 community by storm by being spammed a lot. There are memes before this that put a famous icon and put "gaming" in front of it. In the video "Engineer Gaming", it shows a BLU engineer building a dispenser with him saying "engineer gaming" and Daft Punk - Robot Rock playing after him.
Origin[]
On February 12th, 2020, Twitter user Buggy_Evans tweeted an edited screenshot of an Engineer player in TF2 with the username "engineer gaming" saying "engineer gaming" in the game’s message system. The tweet gained over 800 likes in nine months. The screenshot repeats the phrase "engineer gaming" in a similar fashion to phrase repetition memes like They Did Surgery On A Grape. A same-day repost of the screenshot on the subreddit r/ontheledgeandshit amassed over 2,600 upvotes before being archived.
There were videos preceding this meme. Sans Gaming is a YouTuber whose numerous videos titled “Sans Gaming" helped to inspire the “X Gaming” snowclone. An example is a GIF uploaded to the website Tenor on July 9th, 2019 that shows an Obama object with the caption “Obama Gaming”. Additionally, the Engineer became a minor meme in September 2019 following a viral Twitter exchange. One user with an Engineer profile picture replied how to another user’s tweet asserting that the Minecraft bee is trans and was subsequently blocked. A sentence-mixed video showing almost the same profile picture was uploaded to YouTube on May 5th, 2020 by anarch0possum. It garnered upwards of 170,000 views in six months.
Web usage[]
From February to May 2020, the engineer gaming screenshot was reposted and referenced numerous times on TF2-related subreddits. On May 20th, YouTuber Bob uploaded a cursed image compilation titled "engineer gaming tf2" featuring the Engineer profile picture set to the song "Robot Rock" by Daft Punk. In five months, it amassed over 110,000 views. A similar video uploaded to YouTube on June 8th by mashi shows the original screenshot with the Engineer’s voice lines sentence mixed to say, "engineer gaming". In four and a half months, the video accumulated more than 340,000 views. The engineer gaming meme continued to see use throughout the remainder of 2020.
Engineer Gaming[]
Commenting "engineer gaming" often leads to other users replying with "engineer gaming". This chain can continue indefinitely considering that enough people are willing to reply with "engineer gaming" rather than trying to break the chain.
Variations[]
Heavy gaming, Medic gaming, Soldier gaming, and, more recently, Sniper gaming are all runners-up to Engineer Gaming's gold wrench-built meme throne. Some YouTube comments compare getting the TF2 voice actors to say "(class) gaming" to collecting the Infinity Stones.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3N9rU6dJ5s
External references[]
- Twitter – @Buggy_Evan
- Reddit – FalsePankake
- Tenor – luksen
- YouTube – anarch0possum
- redditsearch.io – engineer gaming
- YouTube – Bob
- YouTube – mashi
- Know Your Meme - Engineer Gaming