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Yuritarded, also known as Yuri Tarded, is a false named used in a practical joke based on a wordplay of the pejorative expression "you're retarded." This is commonly used when the prankster prompts "Do you know Yuri?" The mark of the prank responds, "Who is Yuri?" Finally, the prankster states the punchline: "Yuritarded" (similar to Ligma, Saw Con, Joe Mama)

Origin

The practical joke has existed prior to its internet usage. As such the earliest available usage of the expression comes from ForgeHub.com^[1] user sleekzero on September 30th, 2010. Responded to a thread about the "funniest gamer tags," sleezero offered, "dixie normous" and "yuri tarded" (shown below).

Spread

Over the next decade, the phrase continued to appear on various platforms. For example, on March 15th, 2017, Instagram ^[2] user @phillippines_ball_ posted a series of photographs of two cats and wrote, "Yuri Tarded" (shown below, left).

The following year, December 15th, 2018, iFunny ^[3] user viper_king shared a text conversation that featured the joke (shown below, right).

On October 9th, 2019, Redditor TheMofoHeister shared a text conversation that featured the joke on the /r/ligma^[5] subreddit (shown below, left).

On October 14th, 2019, Redditor^[4] strugglingpaint posted a Joe Mama joke on the /r/dankmemes subreddit that received more than 35,000 points (89% upvoted) and 230 comments (shown below, right). They captioned the meme "Heard about yuri?"

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