On May 6th, 2007, YouTube netprince uploaded a video of the ASCII GIF to YouTube titled "Roflcopter", which accumulated over 800,000 views in less than five years. On July 10th, 2006, a post was submitted to the Flash developer forums Flash Kit titled "My roflcopter goes soi soi soi soi" by user Genesis F5, which included instructions on how to make the Windows Narrator text-to-speech software mimic the sound of a helicopter by typing the phrase "my roflcopter goes soi soi soi soi soi soi soi." In September of 2005, a ROFLcopter flash game was released, in which the player could control an ASCII ROFLcopter to shoot down enemies on screen. On March 30th, 2004, the single-serving site was registered, which featured an animated GIF of an ASCII helicopter with the abbreviations "ROFL" and "LOL" as blades. On January 11th, 2004, the earliest known use of the term was posted by user SteniS in a thread on the Inc Gamers Warcraft III forum about strategies against various Warcraft III units.Ī Wikipedia entry for "Roflcopter" by user Grue claims that the term originated on the flash website Newgrounds, but does not provide a citation as evidence. According to an Urban Dictionary submission by user Brother Laz, the word "ROFLcopter" originated in a web forum for the online strategy game Warcraft III as a slang term for the gyrocopter flying machine unit, which were often mass produced by players for trolling purposes.
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