Ate my balls
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Ate my balls was an early example of an Internet meme. In the late 1990s, some 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.
History
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.
References in other media
Dave Barry made note of the "Ate my balls" phenomenon in his 1996 book Dave Barry in Cyberspace. The "Ate my balls" meme was also referenced in the legal dispute Beck v. Eiland-Hall.
References
- ^ Miles, Milo (1997-08-10). "21st: "Ate My Balls" ate my balls". Salon.com. Retrieved 2008-12-02.