Classic Gaming Emotion

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Classic Gaming Emotion refers to an exploitable image of a woman giving a TED Talk about video games. In the image, she is showing the audience an image of a gamer as she says "…and this is a classic gaming emotion." In the exploitables, the image she is showing the audience is changed.

Origin

On March 17th, 2010, the TED Talks YouTube channel^[1] uploaded a talk given by Jane McGonical called "Gaming can make a better world." Early in her talk, she presents a portrait photograph of a gamer that she describes as exhibiting a "classic gaming emotion… This is a gamer who's on the verge of something called an 'epic win.'"^[2]

The moment did not become an exploitable until June of 2017. On June 27th, Tumblr user lothar^[3] uploaded screenshots of the moment from McGonical's talk, gaining 6,448 points in two days.

Spread

The same day, Funnyjunk user fucking-tumblr^[4] uploaded a screenshot of lothar's post, as well as several exploitable versions. They captioned the post "Someone do the thing, ya know what I'm talking about." The post, which included a template (shown below), gained over 1,000 upvotes.

In the ensuing thread, the top variation with 360 points included the No Way Fag image (shown below, left). Meanwhile, dozens of variations began appearing on Tumblr. One of the most popular edits with over 5,000 notes, posted by hustlerose,^[5] includes a picture of an animated version of "Door Stuck,"^[6] a popular video on YouTube in which a person playing Counter-Strike begins shouting "DOOR STUCK!" during a playthrough (picture shown below, right).