Why is barrel roll a meme

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We see that you're using an ad-blocker! O HAI! You must login or signup first! Already a memeber? Login Now! Don't have an account? Know Your Meme — the internationally recognized scholarly repository of awesome — records 'do a barrel roll' picking up major Internet traction around , along with this description of origin :. Do A Barrel Roll is an catchphrase used to instruct someone to perform a degree horizontal spin.

It is sometimes used to caption image macros where the subject appears to be in mid-rotation, or in animated GIFs where the subject is performing a full rotation. It is often paired with the character Peppy from the Nintendo 64 console game Star Fox From that catchphrase, as with everything else that catches on with the Internet masses, a million image macros ensued.

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Do a barrel roll! Or let Google do it for you. No, seriously. In Google! Right Now! Popular now. Who uses do a barrel roll? Note This is not meant to be a formal definition of do a barrel roll like most terms we define on Dictionary.

When typed into Google, the screen will spin around once, referencing the line. Doing a barrel roll in Star Fox is to press the shoulder buttons twice, pressing L shoulder button then L again would make the R-wing do a barrel roll counter clockwise, pressing the R shoulder button then R again would make the R-wing do a barrel roll clockwise.

It did not. But it was spoken by a voice actor for Peppy Hare in Star Fox In Star Foxes training mode, the game would give you simple tasks. Eventually 3 other R-wings would fly around as you were told to do the same as them, after sometime before the 3 other R-wings would barrel roll Peppy would tell you to do a barrel roll. Peppy: Do a Barrel Roll! Guy 2: Dude, shut up!