Aaaaaaaa

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Aaaaaaaa is a text-based meme where the letter A is repeated dozens or hundreds of times to signal screaming, panic, or complete brain shutdown. It started on Uncyclopedia in October 2005 as a joke article filled entirely with the letter A, then spread across Reddit, Facebook, and image boards as a shitposting and thread-derailing tool.

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Overview

Aaaaaaaa is a text and image meme built on one very simple joke: the letter A repeated over and over with no other content1. The repetition stands in for screaming, panic, existential dread, or a total loss of coherent thought, and the longer the string of As, the funnier the bit is supposed to be3.

The format shows up in three main flavors. First is pure text spam in chat, comment threads, or text-to-speech engines1. Second is image macros and photoshops where the letters on movie posters, video game covers, or news graphics are replaced with As2. Third is reaction images pulled from anime and cartoons, most famously a panel from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure where Noriaki Kakyoin wakes up screaming2. Posters often drop the meme into serious threads specifically to derail them.

How It Spread

Reddit picked up the format in the early 2010s. The subreddit r/AAAAAAAAA was created on November 14th, 2011, followed by r/AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA on May 26th, 2014, both dedicated to posts and comments made entirely of the letter A2. On August 8th, 2015, Redditor afk229 posted a photoshop of the Paul Blart: Mall Cop poster to r/dankmemes with every letter on the artwork swapped out for As2.

Facebook shitposting pages carried the meme into 2016. The full-width Unicode ＡＡＡＡＡＡＡＡＡＡＡＡＡＡＡＡＡ page launched on August 29th, 2016, dedicated to collecting A-repetition edits2. On September 4th, 2016, the Ayy De La Lmao page posted a Breaking News photoshop featuring the Kakyoin screaming panel from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure2. Later that month, on September 25th, Exploding Fish Shitposting posted an NCAA March Madness 2005 game cover with every character on the box replaced by an A2.

Urban Dictionary entries from the same era log the meme as shorthand for someone screaming, often in reply to a shocking or confusing message4. The format is still a default shitpost tool on Reddit and Discord, where a wall of As reads instantly as panic or mock horror3.

How to Use This Meme

The convention is to type A repeatedly with no spaces, typically capitalized, until the message looks like a wall of noise. Common contexts include reacting to shock news, expressing existential panic, or derailing an overly earnest thread. For image versions, posters typically take a movie poster, video game cover, or news broadcast and replace every visible letter with an A while keeping the original layout and colors intact.

Frequently Asked Questions

Aaaaaaaa

2005catchphraseclassic

Aaaaaaaa is a text-based meme where the letter A is repeated dozens or hundreds of times to signal screaming, panic, or complete brain shutdown. It started on Uncyclopedia in October 2005 as a joke article filled entirely with the letter A, then spread across Reddit, Facebook, and image boards as a shitposting and thread-derailing tool.

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Overview

Aaaaaaaa is a text and image meme built on one very simple joke: the letter A repeated over and over with no other content1. The repetition stands in for screaming, panic, existential dread, or a total loss of coherent thought, and the longer the string of As, the funnier the bit is supposed to be3.

The format shows up in three main flavors. First is pure text spam in chat, comment threads, or text-to-speech engines1. Second is image macros and photoshops where the letters on movie posters, video game covers, or news graphics are replaced with As2. Third is reaction images pulled from anime and cartoons, most famously a panel from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure where Noriaki Kakyoin wakes up screaming2. Posters often drop the meme into serious threads specifically to derail them.

How It Spread

Reddit picked up the format in the early 2010s. The subreddit r/AAAAAAAAA was created on November 14th, 2011, followed by r/AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA on May 26th, 2014, both dedicated to posts and comments made entirely of the letter A2. On August 8th, 2015, Redditor afk229 posted a photoshop of the Paul Blart: Mall Cop poster to r/dankmemes with every letter on the artwork swapped out for As2.

Facebook shitposting pages carried the meme into 2016. The full-width Unicode ＡＡＡＡＡＡＡＡＡＡＡＡＡＡＡＡＡ page launched on August 29th, 2016, dedicated to collecting A-repetition edits2. On September 4th, 2016, the Ayy De La Lmao page posted a Breaking News photoshop featuring the Kakyoin screaming panel from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure2. Later that month, on September 25th, Exploding Fish Shitposting posted an NCAA March Madness 2005 game cover with every character on the box replaced by an A2.

Urban Dictionary entries from the same era log the meme as shorthand for someone screaming, often in reply to a shocking or confusing message4. The format is still a default shitpost tool on Reddit and Discord, where a wall of As reads instantly as panic or mock horror3.

How to Use This Meme

The convention is to type A repeatedly with no spaces, typically capitalized, until the message looks like a wall of noise. Common contexts include reacting to shock news, expressing existential panic, or derailing an overly earnest thread. For image versions, posters typically take a movie poster, video game cover, or news broadcast and replace every visible letter with an A while keeping the original layout and colors intact.

Frequently Asked Questions