Pingas

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“	Snooping as usual, I see.	”
The original quote used for the meme

Pingas
Robotnik saying "Pingas".
Historical
Date Created	May 27, 2007
Creator	StegBlog
Associated Event	YouTube
Associated Program	Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog
General
Type	YouTube Poop
Status	Alive

Pingas is a term first coined by YouTube user Stegblob in his famous YouTube Poop video, Robotnik Has a Viagra Overdose. He originated from the AOSTH (Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog) in seventeenth episode Boogey-Mania. In this show episode, Dr. Robotnik is talking to Coconuts the robotic monkey and then sends him to washing duty. The two robots from the Sonic Squad fall through the door and Dr. Robotnik says "Snooping as usual I see". However it was heard as "SnooPING AS usual I see" because of the emphasis he put on ”Ping.” in ”Snooping.” and ”as.” making it sound like it was combined.

Usage on the web

The Youtube Poop "Robotnik Has a Viagra Overdose", uploaded in May 27, 2007 by Stegblog, was the first to use the pronunciation of this statement to mean "penis", forming the "pingas" meme.

When the YouTube Poop "Robotnik Has a Viagra Overdose" was uploaded at that time, the pingas meme did not become well-known immediately. It was not used elsewhere until almost a year later when McMaNGOS uploaded the YouTube video entitled “THIS VIDEO CONTAINS WIN.” This both popularized "pingas" and formed a new meme: "THIS VIDEO CONTAINS." This meme consists of a face superimposed on a picture of Dr. Robotnik combined with phrases or sounds creating a song. “Pingas” was the first and most popular phrase to be used in this meme. As a result of this, the phrase “Pingas” has become widespread across the Internet and Stegblog's video garnered over 137,000 views in nine years. However, it was later taken down for copyright violations. A reupload of the video was shared by youtubepoops in 2017 with at the 3:35 minute mark of Stegblob's video.

Popularity

Ever since Stegblog's video became popular since 2008, the Internet has been using the phrase with great frequency. While it began as a video, then becoming a sound effect for editing or entertainment purposes, it has also later become a frequent subject of illustration. It is estimated that there are thousands of illustrations parodying Pingas on the illustrators community deviantART. Afterwards, Pingas became irrelevant and was eventually abandoned as a YouTube Poop meme over time. Its resurgence will eventually mark its popular appearance again in several years.

Resurgence

Starting in late 2023, a resurgence of Pingas videos spread on Twitter / X and TikTok. One of the first Pingas memes as a part of the resurgence was posted by X user @chronakey on December 26, 2023, who used a video of a kid screaming for his vape, replacing the word with "Pingas". Over four months, the tweet received roughly 13,000 likes.

X user @chronakey continued the trend in the following days, leading to iterations from others in early 2024. For instance, on April 11, 2024, X user @NintendoGCN tweeted a Pingas video, receiving over 3,900 likes in a day.

Rather than being ironic adoration, X user @chronakey stated in a reply shared on April 12, 2024, "I never really thought of it as something ironic I just thought the fusion of old and new was pretty funny. I feel most of the people making them now are doing it out of appreciation for it as well."