Aaaaaaaa

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About

Aaaaaaaa are a series of image macros and photoshops in which the first letter of the English (or Latin) alphabet "A" is nonsensically repeated many times. These images are often used as either a shock reaction or in a shitposting manner to derail threads. The string of text is also often spammed in chat streams or in text-to-speech engines.

Origin

On October 17th, 2005, a page titled "AAAAAAAAA!" was created on Uncyclopedia,^[1] featuring an entire article filled with the letter "A" (shown below).

Spread

On April 18th, 2006, a page for a programming language titled "AAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!" was created on the Esolangs Wiki, where it was described as an "esoteric programming language" consisting entirely of the letter A, space, commas and exclamation points. Subreddits for "AAAAAAAAA"^[8] and "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"^[9] were created on November 14th, 2011, and May 26th, 2014 respectively. These subs contain nothing but post and comments consisting of the letter "A". On August 8th, 2015, Redditor afk229 posted a Paul Blart: Mall Cop photoshop in which all letters on the film's cover art were replaced with the letter "A" to /r/dankmemes (shown below).^[6]

On August 29th, 2016, the ＡＡＡＡＡＡＡＡＡＡＡＡＡＡＡＡＡ Facebook^[2] page was launched, which highlights various images with the letter "a" repeated. On September 25th, the Exploding Fish Shitposting and Senseless Drivel Facebook^[5] page posted a photoshopped version of the NCAA March Madness 2005 PlayStation 2 game replacing each character with the letter "a" (shown below, left). On October 9th, the Crippling Memes Facebook page published a Retrowave Text Generator image with the "a" repeated across several lines (shown below).

Sweetie Belle Derelle

Sweetie Belle Derelle is an exploitable image Sweetie Belle from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic making a derp face. The image was popularly used to derail a forum or image board thread, where posters would spam threads full of the Sweetie Derelle, often including repetitive capitalized "A"s in the picture or as a caption.

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

Panels from the manga Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, in which the character Noriaki Kakyoin awakes from a nightmare screaming "Aaaaaa," is sometimes used as a reaction image online (shown below, left).^[7] On September 4th, 2016, the Ayy De La Lmao Facebook^[4] page posted a Breaking News photoshop image featuring the comic (shown below, right).