About

Oopsie Woopsie refers to a mock website error message used to satirize websites that display cutesy, custom error page screens rather than a simple error code.

Origin

On March 10th, 2018, Twitter user @cherrikissu^[1] posted a tweet criticizing websites who post cutesy error messages, using the mock example "OOPSIE WOOPSIE!! Uwu We made a fucky wucky!! A wittle fucko boingo! The code monkeys at our headquarters are working VEWY HAWD to fix this!" (shown below). Within 72 hours, the tweet gained over 28,000 likes and 8,700 retweets.

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That day, Twitter user @MonsieurLo^[5] replied to the tweet with an edited Google error page displaying the message "Uwu We made a fucky wucky" (shown below).

Also on March 10th, 2018, Redditor Reddexter submitted a screenshot of the tweet to /r/me_irl,^[3] where it gathered upwards of 5,400 points (99% upvoted) and 120 comments within 72 hours. On March 11th, Redditor nimeton2002 uploaded a photoshop Minecraft error message using the copypasta to /r/me_irl^[4] (shown below, left). On March 12th, Redditor zeroxOnReddit submitted a screenshot of a mock error page based off the @cherrikissu tweet to /r/osugame^[2] (shown below, right).

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