Ace Attorney Courtroom Argument Generators / objection.lol

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About

Ace Attorney Courtroom Argument Generators refers to several meme generators that allow users to create custom Ace Attorney scenes. Starting with the objection.lol generator created in April 2019, the trend received further development with the Reddit generator objection-bot, Twitter bot @aceCourtBot and Discord and Telegram bots.

Precursor

The trend of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney parodies started with Phoenix Wrong, a series of Flash animation parodies of Ace Attorney courtroom arguments posted to Newgrounds and YouTube starting in 2006 (examples shown below, left and right). The original Phoenix Wrong Flash parody was uploaded^[14] by Newgrounds user AshfordPride on July 29th, 2006.

Objection.lol

History

On April 12th, 2019, Twitter user @HappySylveon created objection.lol.^[1]^[2] The website allowed users to create simple Objection! animated scenes with Phoenix Wright, Miles Edgeworth and other characters from the video game series Ace Attorney. On April 13th, @HappySylveon made the first tweet^[3] linking to the scene created in the generator (shown below).

On June 25th, 2019, Twitter^[4] user @Clankity posted the original You Are Not a Clown. You Are The Entire Circus meme created with the generator (shown below).

In early September 2019, @HappySylveon upgraded the functionality of the generator, adding an "Objection Maker" function that allowed users to create frame-by-frame scene sequences featuring multiple characters, with up to 500 animated frames in one sequence. On September 10th, @HappySylveon made the first tweet^[5] linking such a sequence. On October 12th, 2019, @HappySylveon launched the Twitter^[6] account @objection_lol for the purpose of announcing updates to the website.

https://t.co/qoKutE97qq #AceAttorney #Objection

— Retribution Sylveon (@HappySylveon) September 10, 2019

The generator remained largely unnoticed online until December 27th, 2019, when Twitter^[7] user @beanzaru posted the first viral edit created with the objection.lol. The clip, an Ok Boomer meme, received over 101,900 views, 6,100 retweets and 13,800 likes in nine months (shown below).

Making Ace Attorney memes is my fate now. pic.twitter.com/XvWzxlRI8o

— Beans D. Zaru BLM (@beanzaru) December 27, 2019

Despite the viral edit, the website did not see active use until February 5th, 2020, Twitter^[8] user @Nincalamako posted another viral edit that received over 121,000 views, 6,000 retweets and 15,300 likes in six months (shown below).

I've been thinking about this all day https://t.co/SXZLR4qxod pic.twitter.com/0Df7zM2rzI

— Mako (@Nincalamako) February 5, 2020

Following the edit, the website achieved significant popularity as a meme-making tool, with the memes often based on popular copypastas and humorous exchanges that took place on forums and in comment sections on social media.

Features

objection.lol allows users to create Ace Attorney exchanges between game characters, with options to customize their dialogues, background, animations and transitions between the frames, as well as add custom images as "evidence." The generator allows people to create scenes up to 500 frames long and export them as an MP4 file.

On May 1st, 2020, a Courtroom function was added to the website. The function allows several users to exchange messages using the generator in real-time. More functions were added to the generator in 2020 and 2021.

Highlights

Starting in early February 2020, a number of viral memes made in objection.lol were posted online on Twitter and YouTube. For example, on February 26th, Twitter^[9] user @mugendaiyo posted a meme that received over 372,100 views in six months (shown below).

My server had a rather heated debate on flavors and what actually constitutes one, so why not make it a funny video instead? pic.twitter.com/mRoFltFsMU

— 「無限」 (@mugendaiyo) February 26, 2020

Starting in late February 2020, the generator gained significant popularity among Russian users on Twitter^[10] and VK.^[11] On May 22nd, 2020, the Russian news website TJ^[12] reported about the generator.

Traffic

Objection.lol peaked in popularity in May 2020, ranking #427,217 in popularity globally.^[13] As of August 6th, 2020, Russian users constituted 32.5 percent of the website's traffic.

Reddit Bot

On January 17th, 2021, developer Micah Price debuted objection-bot,^[15] an open-source bot able to convert Reddit comment threads into Ace Attorney parodies (example video shown below). On February 16th, v.1.0.0 of the bot was released on GitHub.^[16]

The bot can be summoned using the commands !objectionbot or !objection-bot in any comment thread on Reddit.

On January 18th, the subreddit /r/Objectionbotbattles^[17] was created for the purpose of collecting videos generated by the bot.

Twitter, Discord and Telegram Bots

Following the implementation of the Reddit bot, developer Luis Mayo used the bot to create generator bots for Twitter,^[18] Discord^[19] and Telegram.^[20]

The Twitter bot (@aceCourtBot) can be used by tagging the bot and writing "render." As of June 9th, 2021, the bot, launched on January 31st, had over 201,000 followers (example video shown below).

Your video is ready. Do you want it removed? contact @/LuisMayoV pic.twitter.com/ekxcF0k4i0

— Ace Attorney Court Bot 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳‍🌈 (@aceCourtBot) May 30, 2021

Objection!

Objection! is an image macro series where the subject is often pointing an index finger next to the iconic speech bubble from the game Phoenix Wright, which exclaims "Objection!" The images have been used as reaction images by those who wish to contradict a previously posted claim.