Do U Want Anyfing From Macdondald / Borgar

About

Do U Want Anyfing From Macdondald, also known as Borgar, is an anti-meme based on the Can a Robot Write a Symphony scene from the 2004 American film I, Robot. Originally a popular submission on /r/okbuddyretard subreddit, the post spawned other edits based on the template, while the word "borgar" gained popularity as a punchline.

Origin

Macdondald

The word "macdondald" supposedly first appeared in a viral screenshot from video game Roblox (shown below), in which then 8-year-old^[1] player jevel57 mistyped a then-popular joke comparing one's hairline with the McDonald's logo. While the original poster of the screenshot is unknown, on August 31st, 2017 Twitter user @conkface^[2] posted the first known instance of the image. The post received nearly 100 retweets in 15 months before it was deleted.

Borgar

A bastardisation of the word "burger", "borger" (later, "borgar") supposedly gained notoriety after on August 12th, 2016, Tumblr^[3] user officialnickrhodes-remade used it as a punchline in an edit of Good Evening, Sir. What Would You Like webcomic, which gained over 230,000 likes and reblogs in three years.

I, Robot Version

On June 14th, 2018, an unknown /r/okbuddyretard user submitted a now-deleted post based on Can a Robot Write a Symphony meme template from 2004 film I, Robot, in which he combined the two phrases.

On the same day, the image was reposted to /r/dankmemes^[4] subreddit, where it gained over 800 upvotes in six months. Another repost to /r/me_irl^[5] subreddit received over 3,700 upvotes within the same period. In comments to the both posts, several users mentioned^[6][7] that the image originated from /r/okbuddyretard subreddit.

Spread

In the following months, more variations of the anti-meme were posted to /r/okbuddyretard^[8] and /r/surrealmemes^[9] subreddits, while the original edit was reposted to /r/ooer^[10], /r/ComedyNecrophilia^[11] and other communities.

Separately from the revised I, Robot exploitable, the words "borgar" and "macdonald" also gained popularity as non-sequitur punchlines, with notable examples appearing in /r/okbuddyretard^[12] and /r/dankmemes^[13] subreddits.

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