Ate my balls

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Ate my balls was an early example of an Internet meme.

In the late 1990s, many web pages were created to depict a particular celebrity or fictional character's relish for eating testicles. Often, the site would consist of a humorous story or comic featuring edited photos about the titular individual eating testicles. The photo editing was often crude, a reflection of the state of software at the time.

The fad was started in 1996 by Nehal Patel, a student at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a "Mr. T Ate My Balls" web page. ^[1] It has now all but fallen out of popular Internet culture. Most of the "Ate my balls" pages have been taken down. In 2008, artists Drew and Natalie Dee created a website called "Andrew Zimmern Ate My Balls" in reference to the host of Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern, which features animal testicles as culinary dishes on certain episodes.

[edit] References in law

The "Ate my balls" meme was referenced in the legal dispute Beck v. Eiland-Hall.

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[edit] External links

• Yahoo's directory of "ate my balls" sites
• Internet Archive "Mr. T Ate My Balls" from Dec, 1998
• Tribute to Removal of Geocities, Ate my Balls reference
• Andrew Zimmern Ate My Balls