# Battlefield Battlefield is EA and DICE's long-running first-person shooter series that fueled a whole subculture of stunt clips, machinima and web comedy after its 2002 debut[5]. The franchise's chaotic vehicle physics and glitchy sandbox turned player montages like the Battlefield 3 RendeZook into viral touchstones and inspired shows like Battlefield Friends and the live-action miniseries RUSH[5]. ## Overview Battlefield is a first-person shooter series published by Electronic Arts and developed by DICE, built around large-scale multiplayer where infantry fight alongside jets, helicopters, tanks and boats on sprawling maps[1]. Early entries ran on the in-house Refractor Engine before the franchise switched over to Frostbite, the tech that also powers EA's other big-budget shooters[5]. What pushed Battlefield past normal shooter status was its sandbox. Wide open maps, destructible buildings and chunky physics let players script their own moments, and those moments got clipped, uploaded and passed around YouTube for years[5]. The visuals also mattered. When Forbes reviewed the Battlefield 5 reveal, the writer called it "one of the most gorgeous looking games I've ever seen" even while picking apart the trailer's tone[3]. The look plus the physics turned everyday matches into raw material for edits. The series also gave the wider FPS crowd a shared vocabulary. Community slang like "shitbucket" for grinding sweats and "jeep stuff" for the C4-on-a-vehicle trick spread through forums and video comments, right alongside the C100, an in-game unlockable knife with a bipod welded to it as a joke reference to community memes[5]. ## How It Spread YouTube did most of the work. The clip commonly credited with codifying the Battlefield stunt-video format is "Battlefield 3 – RendeZook," posted on December 8, 2011 by user Stun_gravy, in which a pilot ejects mid-air, spins around, shoots down the pursuing jet with an RPG and lands back in his own plane[5]. It racked up over 11 million views and more than 35,000 comments, and copycat attempts kept the trick alive across sequels[5]. Comedy content came next. The web animation Battlefield Friends, made by the YouTube channel HankandJed, riffed on class stereotypes, glitches and Easter eggs in the games, and its premiere episode alone pulled around 3 million views[5]. HankandJed spun that success into the follow-up Battleloggers and the secondary channel Neebs Gaming, which built its own audience around goofing off in Battlefield servers[5]. Live-action got a turn too. RUSH, produced by Corridor Digital and Studio71, premiered on go90 on September 20, 2016 and followed a scattered US Black Ops unit working with mercenaries in Cherna[5]. The games' marketing also generated its own memes, mostly through backfires. In late October 2016, EA's Battlefield 1 Twitter account posted "#justWWIthings" jokes overlaying phrases like "weekend goals" on GIFs of soldiers burning in flamethrower attacks and zeppelins falling out of the sky, and Polygon reported that the tweets were deleted after mass ridicule[2]. In May 2018, the Battlefield 5 reveal set off another cycle. Forbes tracked how the trailer collected 121,000 dislikes against 158,000 likes on YouTube[7], and The Verge covered the #NotMyBattlefield hashtag from players angry that the trailer put a female British soldier with a prosthetic arm front and center[6]. EA and DICE also broke with tradition by announcing that Battlefield 5 would ship without the premium pass model used for Battlefield 1, replacing paid map packs with a free live-service called Tides of War[4]. A Polygon preview added that the game would let players fully customize soldiers by gender, race and features inside a Company system tied to the four classic roles of assault, engineer, support and medic[8]. The next mainline entry, Battlefield 2042, arrived on November 19, 2021, with Ultimate and EA Play Pro copies unlocking a week earlier on November 12[5]. It leaned into a near-future setting with climate-collapse geopolitics, stateless "No-Pat" soldiers, and Battlefield Portal, a mode letting players build custom rulesets using maps and weapons remixed from Battlefield 3, 1942 and Bad Company 2[5]. To set that up, DICE released Exodus, an animated short prologue posted to YouTube on August 12, 2021, that brought back Battlefield 4's Kimble "Irish" Graves and Clayton "Pac" Pakowski[5]. ## How to Use "Battlefield" as an internet reference usually shows up in three ways. First is straightforward gameplay slang, where "playing some Battlefield" is used interchangeably for any entry in the series, whether that's BF2, BF3 or 2042[9]. Second is the montage format popularized by clips like RendeZook, where players cut together vehicle stunts, trick shots and physics glitches into a single hype video and post it to YouTube in the hope of pulling numbers similar to Stun_gravy's original[5]. Third is community shorthand borrowed from Battlefield Friends, where jokes about the sniper who never spots, the medic who never revives and "jeep stuff" C4 vehicle bombs get reused as reaction material well outside the game itself[5]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Battlefield? Battlefield is a first-person shooter series published by EA and developed by DICE, focused on large-scale multiplayer combined-arms combat[1]. ### Where did Battlefield come from? The series began with Battlefield 1942 in the early 2000s and had already been slang shorthand for its various sequels by the mid-2000s[9]. ### What does Battlefield mean online? Online, "Battlefield" is usually shorthand for any entry in the EA/DICE FPS franchise, from 1942 to 2042[9]. ### How do you use Battlefield in memes? Most Battlefield memes come from user montages of stunts and glitches, like the 2011 RendeZook clip that hit over 11 million views on YouTube[5]. ### Is Battlefield still popular? The franchise is still active. Battlefield 2042 launched on November 19, 2021 and expanded the sandbox with the Battlefield Portal custom-mode tool[5]. ### What is the RendeZook? RendeZook is a stunt from a December 8, 2011 Battlefield 3 clip by YouTuber Stun_gravy where a pilot ejects, shoots down a jet with an RPG mid-air, then lands back in his plane[5]. ### What is Battlefield Friends? Battlefield Friends is a web animation series by the YouTube channel HankandJed that parodies class stereotypes and glitches in the games, with a premiere episode that pulled about 3 million views[5]. ### Why was Battlefield 5's trailer controversial? The May 2018 Battlefield 5 reveal drew a #NotMyBattlefield backlash focused on a female British soldier with a prosthetic arm in the trailer, which The Verge covered at the time[6]. ### What was #justWWIthings? It was a Battlefield 1 Twitter campaign in October 2016 that overlaid meme phrases on graphic WWI GIFs; Polygon reported that EA deleted the tweets after backlash[2]. ### Did Battlefield 5 have a season pass? No, DICE dropped the premium pass model used on Battlefield 1 and shipped Battlefield 5 with a free live-service called Tides of War instead[4]. ### What is Battlefield 2042's setting? It is a near-future sequel to Battlefield 4 with climate-crisis geopolitics and stateless "No-Pat" soldiers fighting in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Antarctica[5]. ### What is Battlefield Portal? Battlefield Portal is a mode inside Battlefield 2042 that lets players build custom game types using maps and weapons remastered from Battlefield 3, 1942 and Bad Company 2[5]. ## References 1. [https://www.battlefield.com/battlefield3/1/awards]() 2. [https://www.polygon.com/2016/10/31/13478344/battlefield-1-ea-deleted-tweets-marketing]() 3. [https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2018/05/23/battlefield-5s-reveal-trailer-has-me-more-confused-than-hyped/]() 4. [https://www.polygon.com/2018/5/23/17384662/battlefield-5-premium-pass]() 5. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/battlefield]() 6. [https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/24/17388414/battlefield-v-fans-game-women-world-war-2-history]() 7. [https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2018/05/24/this-year-its-battlefield-5-fighting-youtube-trailer-dislikes-for-a-change/]() 8. [https://www.polygon.com/2018/5/23/17385250/battlefield-5-gameplay-preview-pc-ps4-xbox-one]() 9. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Battlefield]() 10. [https://www.joystiq.com/2012/08/13/battlefield-series-celebrates-7-year-anniversary-over-0-milli/]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/battlefield Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library