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Toddposting refers to a series of shitposting featuring the game developer Todd Howard trying to advertise Bethesda Softworks' franchises, like The Elder Scrolls and Fallout, in a mockingly blunt and non-sneaky way through photoshopped images of Howard.

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Toddposting is believed to have started in 4chan's video game board /v/ during the summer of 2015, after Bethesda's E3 conference where details about Fallout 4 were announced. The earliest archived reference to Toddposting comes from a /vg/ Fallout thread on July 10th, 2015.[1]

iew Same Google iodb SauceNAOHunk.jpg. 141KIB, 703x695 Anonymous Fri 10 Jul 2015 11:50:45 No.109026179 >>109024238 lfucking love Toddposting. Report He keeps telling you lies, and you keep believing him THE MAN EVERYONE TALKS ABOUT Businessman Mastermind Heartbreaker Womanizer Powerdignitary C.E.O. of your ass Dat hair Dem eyes An all Dat smirk afound alpha stud Dat chin He's got that"Wanna f---?"face on. Can you pull it without looking like a f-----? SUBMIT THY FLESH UREANo, you can't. But Todd can.Because he knows stuff.

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Toddposting began taking off in the summer of 2015. A photoshopped image of Howard was posted to Imgur on July 15th (shown below, left). An August 15th, 2015 post on /v/ portrayed Howard as a man scamming a sickness in order to get people to preorder Fallout 4 (shown below, right).


Toddposting continued throughout the following several years and was particularly emboldened by the multiple releases of Skyrim on multiple platforms (examples shown below). A subreddit for the trend has 150 subscribers.[3]


Additionally, the trend has been parodied in various YouTube videos. For example, a "/v/ The Musical" parody uploaded by vodkaowl on October 6th, 2016, gained over 68,000 views (shown below, left). A parody uploaded by halflife2man on July 14th, 2017 gained over 8,600 views (shown below, right).


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About

Toddposting refers to a series of shitposting featuring the game developer Todd Howard trying to advertise Bethesda Softworks' franchises, like The Elder Scrolls and Fallout, in a mockingly blunt and non-sneaky way through photoshopped images of Howard.

Origin

Toddposting is believed to have started in 4chan's video game board /v/ during the summer of 2015, after Bethesda's E3 conference where details about Fallout 4 were announced. The earliest archived reference to Toddposting comes from a /vg/ Fallout thread on July 10th, 2015.[1]



Spread

Toddposting began taking off in the summer of 2015. A photoshopped image of Howard was posted to Imgur on July 15th (shown below, left). An August 15th, 2015 post on /v/ portrayed Howard as a man scamming a sickness in order to get people to preorder Fallout 4 (shown below, right).



Toddposting continued throughout the following several years and was particularly emboldened by the multiple releases of Skyrim on multiple platforms (examples shown below). A subreddit for the trend has 150 subscribers.[3]



Additionally, the trend has been parodied in various YouTube videos. For example, a "/v/ The Musical" parody uploaded by vodkaowl on October 6th, 2016, gained over 68,000 views (shown below, left). A parody uploaded by halflife2man on July 14th, 2017 gained over 8,600 views (shown below, right).



Various Examples



Search Interest

External References

Recent Videos 11 total

Recent Images 157 total


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