# 73 The B0Aty Number 73, also called The B0aty Number, is an Old School RuneScape community in-joke born from a 2015 PvP death match where streamer Skill Specs killed rival B0aty with a single 73-damage hit right after B0aty bragged it could not happen. The number stuck around as shorthand for cosmic bad luck and killer timing inside the OSRS scene. ## Overview 73, sometimes called The B0aty Number, is an Old School RuneScape community running joke about the exact damage number Skill Specs hit on fellow streamer B0aty during a 2015 Twitch PvP death match[1]. B0aty had just told chat that his opponent could not possibly deal enough damage to finish him. One tick later, a 73 flashed above his head and he was dead[1]. The gag is basically the number itself. OSRS players drop 73 in chat, in Reddit thread titles, in clip captions, and in reply memes whenever someone eats a wildly unlucky hit or when the digits 73 show up in unrelated stats, price checks, or gambling flips[2]. It is less a template than a shibboleth, an inside marker that flags you as part of the 2007scape crowd[4]. ## How It Spread Once the YouTube upload was out, the number attached itself to B0aty inside the r/2007scape subreddit, where players kept posting screenshots of 73-damage hits and Grand Exchange prices ending in 73 as a running callback to the fight[2]. Skill Specs was folded in as a secondary character in the bit, but the number was almost always tagged to B0aty[4]. The joke jumped off Reddit and onto Twitter too. On February 28th, 2017, user @YoungJilker posted a Big Man Tyrone edit chuckling over the number, and that tweet pulled in more than 12,000 views[3]. A later Twitter clip of the moment kept circulating in OSRS reply chains under the same 73 caption[5]. The fight also seeded a small genre of fan edits inside the RuneScape scene, from supercuts of 73s appearing in unrelated gameplay to remixes of Skill Specs' laugh over the B0aty audio[4]. The bit stayed niche outside OSRS but is a durable in-joke among Twitch and Twitter accounts that follow the game[2]. ## How to Use Typical use is dead simple: reply with just "73" whenever someone in an OSRS context takes an absurdly unlucky hit, calls their shot right before losing, or when the number 73 shows up organically in a stat, price, or drop[2]. Common conventions include captioning clips of high-damage PvP kills with the number, editing a 73 splat over unrelated footage, or quoting B0aty's pre-death bravado before showing the outcome[4]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is 73 The B0Aty Number? It is an Old School RuneScape in-joke built around the number 73, the damage Skill Specs dealt to kill streamer B0aty in a 2015 Twitch PvP match right after B0aty said it was impossible[1]. ### Where did 73 The B0Aty Number come from? It came from a stream fight between OSRS streamers B0aty and Skill Specs in 2015, with Skill Specs uploading the point-of-view YouTube video on July 2nd, 2015[1]. ### What does 73 The B0Aty Number mean? It is shorthand for cosmic bad luck and jinxing yourself, invoked whenever an OSRS player calls their shot and then immediately eats a huge hit, or when the digits 73 show up out of nowhere[2]. ### How do you use 73 The B0Aty Number? OSRS fans typically drop "73" as a reply on Reddit or Twitter under clips of unlucky PvP kills, or edit a 73 hitsplat over gameplay footage as a callback to the original fight[2]. ### Is 73 The B0Aty Number still popular? It is a classic OSRS community reference rather than a mainstream meme, kept alive inside the 2007scape subreddit and among RuneScape Twitch and Twitter accounts[2]. ## References 1. [https://www.youtube.com/user/skillspecs]() 2. [https://www.reddit.com/r/2007scape/]() 3. [https://twitter.com/YoungJilker]() 4. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/73-the-b0aty-number]() 5. [https://x.com/i/status/836638192916918273]() 6. [https://www.twitch.tv/b0aty]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/73-the-b0aty-number Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library