Bingo meme

About

Custom Bingo Cards are a type of exploitable images often used in online forum games in which participants are asked to create their own bingo sheet with a set of words or phrases, usually tailored to specific fandoms, communities or events. The goal of the game is to fill in five adjacent boxes on the bingo sheet in the shortest amount of time possible.

Origin

The game of bingo can be traced back to approximately the year with the Italian lottery game "Il Giuoco del Lotto d'Italia". Over the course of the next few centuries, the game was eventually co-opted by the French in the late 18th century. Bingo reached the web in the mid s through virtual game rooms on Bingo Zone and Pogo (shown below, left). In , the derivative game Slingo (shown below, right) launched, replacing the traditional bingo format of calling one number at a time with randomization inspired by slot machines. Although it is unknown when bingo cards first became customized using words and phrases instead of numbers, custom bingo generators were created on the web as early as February 1st,

Spread

According to a NeoGaf thread posted on June 27th, , the now-defunct gaming website Angry-gamer.net created custom bingo sheets for Electronic Entertainment Expo presentations beginning in Starting in July , gaming website Joystiq started an annual E3 Bingo in which they post bingo sheets for the announcements by companies such as Sony (shown below, left), Microsoft (shown below, center) and Nintendo (shown below, left).

As early as April , Ronery Bingo began circulating 4chan's /a/ (Anime and Manga) board. Threads with these cards were so pervasive, one thread resulted in a ban for everyone who posted the card. In February , Illinois Science Council member Monica Metzler created a custom bingo sheet called "Bad Presentation Bingo", which was based around common and well known mistakes made during presentations of any kind such as flaws in the slides or the speaker rambling. This bingo card has been mentioned on Idea.org, the Research Explainer and My Research Rants. It is also often shared on Twitter.

Personalized Bingo Cards

In mid-June of , a social game began spreading through Twitter in which users created Bingo Cards where each square represented an aspect of their personality. One of the earliest iterations of the meme was posted to Twitter by @mooonjou (shown below).

Over the following week, many more iterations would be posted to Twitter, often using the myfreebingocards generator.

Notable Examples

Custom bingo cards are often shared on deviantART, Tumblr and 4chan.

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About

Bingo refers to metaphorical or literal custom bingo cards relating to major occurrences in Following, the Australian bushfires and the coronavirus outbreak many Redditors and Twitter users began reacting to new surprising news by referencing their bingo card or predicting apocalyptic scenarios using a custom bingo card.

Origin

On January 2nd, , Twitter user @jules_lefevre referenced a Bingo card in response to a tweet where Bette Midler calls Scott Morrison a fuckwit (shown below). The tweet gained over likes and 40 retweets in five months.

Spread

On March 16th, , Twitter user @bjoewolf tweeted, "Did anyone have 'Mitt Romney endorsing Universal Basic Income six weeks after voting to convict Donald Trump' on their bingo card?" (shown below, left). The tweet garnered over 4, likes and retweets in three months. On March 20th, Redditor tumsdout posted a custom Apocalypse Bingo card to r/memes (shown below, right). The card features past and predicted future events.

On June 8th, Twitter user @maureenjohnson posted a screenshot of the PG Tips and the Yorkshire Tea Twitter accounts speaking out against racism and said, "I didn't have anti-racist tea on my bingo card but I am delighted that it is here" (shown below). The tweet accumulated over 2, likes and retweets in a day.

That's Another One For Apocalypse Bingo

That's Another One For Apocalypse Bingo is a reaction image featuring animated character Kronk (played by Patrick Warburton) from the comedy film The Emperor's New Groove. The image is typically used to describe ’s apocalyptic events, adding another one to the imaginary “apocalypse bingo” anytime a disaster, major world event or otherwise negative news story is released. The meme began appearing on a number of social media platforms after the coronavirus pandemic around March The first meme using the reaction image was posted on March 18th, , by Redditor toxicpenguin9 to the r/memes sub under the title, “So we had a earthquake in Utah this morning.” The post (seen below) received over , upvotes, 1, comments and numerous Reddit awards.

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Every game has some form of ‘meme’ floating around these days, funny pictures that reference something only the players understand. Bingo is currently the latest one to adapt their own ‘meme’ culture, so here are the most hilarious ‘Top Ten’&#;

10 – The Inside Joke

We all have one, that look you exchange with your friends across the table in the Bingo hall when someone says something. That sly grin and snort of laughter as you try not to give the game away to others not in on the joke.

9 – The Addiction

They say the first step of addiction is admitting that you have a problem. Of course no one wants to admit it; they just silently look around them at chequered surfaces imaging a giant daub pen filling in imaginary numbers. Or looking at a bus number and thinking: “Yes, I’m two numbers closer to a full card.”

8 – A Game Everyone Understands

Anywhere you go in the world there will be a Bingo game of some sort. Sandy shores or frozen peaks, everyone is aware of what the game of Bingo involves. And they all understand the raw frustration you can have when you spend ten minutes with a card that only has one number coloured in on it.

7 – Show Me Your ‘Bingo Face’

Everyone has one, that contorted face you make when you realize the shout you heard from the back of the room was some other person yelling: “House!” You try your hardest not to pull ‘that face’, but you can’t help it, they’re already walking past your table and your face has already committed.

6 – Late For Bingo

This is where the seething rage and panic starts to kick in. The doors of the hall stop letting people inside in ten minutes and you’re fifteen minutes away. It’s time to get the foot down and start mounting pavements, I mean you have a bumper on your car for a reason.

5 – Still Late For Bingo

This one is pretty self-explanatory, there’s nothing worse than that gut wrenching realisation that you’re going to be late for your Saturday sessions. Every slow moving vehicle becomes an eight mile long traffic jam. Every person crossing the road in your eyes is doing it out of spite to just slow you down.

4 – Haters Gonna Hate

Of course every ‘meme’ has an ‘anti-meme’. These only serve to stoke the fire of ignorance of those that have never experienced the rush of getting all your numbers and crying to the heavens in a packed hall of your peers: “HOUSE!”
Instead of criticising these ‘anti-memes’, we should embrace them, yeah the game is silly but you know what, we love it and that’s ok.

3 – Risqué Bingo

Bingo over the years has shed its stereotype of being a hall full of boring, half-blind, nearly deaf and close to death pensioners. Now younger crowds are encouraged in with cocktail nights and the occasional singles night. Where young, hip singletons can get together with like-minded others over a good old game of Bingo.

2 – The ‘Player’

Every hall has one, that rarely seen but widely spoken about ‘legendary player’. The one that got all their numbers in less than five minutes and won the biggest jackpot. The one that everyone instantly accuses of either cheating or rigging the game somehow.

1 &#; Hardcore Crowd

When you think of bingo players, the first thing that pops to mind is the elderly. No longer confined to old folk’s homes, pensioners spend their time talking to their relatives via the internet, tottering around local tourist attractions and driving incredibly slow on the motorway. But get them into a bingo hall and they can become gangster geriatrics when there’s a Bingo prize at stake.

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The year isn&#;t even halfway over and it seems like more has happened in six months than in the past decade. Has it really? No, of course not. But the things that are happening are so huge and complicated and unexpected I definitely feel as though I&#;ve aged ten years. In the midst of this turmoil, the &#; Bingo Card&#; meme has risen as a way to list off all the many bizarre and surprise events hitting us this year. 

Sometimes people use the Bingo Card Meme to describe stuff they didn&#;t seem coming, sometimes they make actual bingo cards they made that show the events that have already come to pass in this &#;hellscape&#; of a year. The funniest ones to me are the moments of note that seem like they were produced by a plot generator: add these two random famous people together, throw in a conflict, and boom, you got a Bingo square for If it involves a huge number of animals somehow, even better.

The Bingo Card memes are very funny, but I&#;m starting to worry that they&#;re conjuring up some stuff. If you have anything on your Bingo card that you don&#;t want to see come to pass, now might be the time to tear it up. 

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