# Call Of Duty Call Of Duty is Activision's first-person shooter franchise that launched on PC in October 2003 and moved to an annual release cycle after 2007's Modern Warfare. Around the games themselves, the series generated a running set of memes about copy-paste sequels, confusing sequel names, and viral marketing blunders. ## Overview Call Of Duty is Activision's flagship first-person shooter series, developed on rotation between Infinity Ward and Treyarch[3]. Players usually take the role of an infantry soldier moving through campaigns set in World War II, the Cold War, and modern or near-future combat. The series spawned its own online joke culture, with mock Urban Dictionary entries branding it 'Same shit. Different year.' and cataloguing every quickscope, camper, and killcam teabag players love to complain about[7]. Much of the meme material around Call Of Duty comes from the franchise's dominant presence in online shooter discourse. Because new titles arrive every fall, chatter around each release recycles the same complaints, the same reveal-trailer jokes, and the same commentary about lag, noob tubes, and montage clips[7]. Confusing sequel titles have added another layer, most visibly the 2019 reboot named 'Call of Duty: Modern Warfare' even though a 2007 game already carried that title[1]. ## How It Spread The Black Ops sub-series widened the schedule. Call of Duty: World at War, a prologue to the Black Ops line, launched November 11, 2008 and moved players back into the Pacific and Eastern Front of WWII[3]. Call of Duty: Black Ops followed on November 9, 2010, casting the player as a special forces operator during the 1960s Cold War. On May 1, 2013, a teaser trailer for Call of Duty: Ghosts hit YouTube and pulled in more than 11.7 million views and around 42,000 comments within its first five months. The naming chaos hit its peak on May 24, 2019, when Twitter user @LongSensationYT posted that the next Call Of Duty was called 'Call of Duty: Modern Warfare' with the note 'I'm not joking'[1]. Kotaku's Jason Schreier quickly backed the leak, and Eurogamer added that Activision had already shown the game to a group of American football players in March, with a formal reveal scheduled for May 30[1]. Users piled on Twitter with jokes about the next entry being called 'Modern Warfare: Call of Duty,' while @GameOverGreggy defended the reused name by comparing it to common practice in film[3]. Franchise marketing produced its own meme moment on June 20, 2018, when NBA lottery prospect Deandre Ayton tweeted a Black Ops 4 promo that still contained the PR agency's instructions. The post read 'Awesome time yesterday with the #BlackOps4 crew. Thanks for having me #CallOfDutyPartner,' and a reply on Kotaku dubbed it 'the single greatest sponsored tweet of all time'[2]. USA Today placed Ayton's slip alongside DeSean Jackson's 2012 ESPYs tweet and Markelle Fultz's identical mistake during the previous year's NBA draft cycle[5]. SB Nation compared the moment to something out of a BoJack Horseman episode, adding that Ayton could technically have left the tweet up since the only requirement was to include both hashtags, which it did[6]. ## How to Use The 'Call Of Duty' meme label often gets applied to any annual franchise release accused of shipping the same product with fresh paint, and the shorthand 'Same shit. Different year' from Urban Dictionary jokes has been reused in gaming discussions well beyond CoD itself[7]. The stock cast of complaints attached to the series, campers, noob tubers, quickscopers, and killcam teabaggers, also gets recycled whenever a new shooter drops[7]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Call Of Duty? Call Of Duty is Activision's flagship first-person shooter series, developed on rotation between Infinity Ward and Treyarch and set across WWII, the Cold War, and modern or near-future combat[3]. ### Where did Call Of Duty come from? The first Call Of Duty shipped for PC on October 29, 2003 with WWII infantry combat and an eight-player multiplayer mode[3]. ### What does Call Of Duty mean? The name refers to the Activision military shooter franchise that has released annually since 2007's Modern Warfare[1], though online it also gets used as shorthand for any annual franchise accused of shipping copy-paste sequels[7]. ### How do you use Call Of Duty? As a meme, people invoke Call Of Duty when mocking annual franchise releases or when repeating the 'Same shit. Different year.' complaint about recycled sequels[7]. ### Is Call Of Duty still popular? Yes, the franchise is active and Modern Warfare 4's Open Beta Early Access is scheduled to run August 21 to August 25 per the official callofduty.com site[4]. ### What was Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare? Released in November 2007, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare was the first entry to swap WWII for a modern military setting, and it pushed the franchise into its annual release cadence[1]. ### What was the 2019 Modern Warfare naming controversy? On May 24, 2019, Twitter user @LongSensationYT leaked that the new game would be called 'Call of Duty: Modern Warfare,' the exact title of the 2007 game, which Kotaku's Jason Schreier and Eurogamer both confirmed[1]. ### What was Deandre Ayton's Call Of Duty tweet? On June 20, 2018, NBA prospect Deandre Ayton posted a Black Ops 4 sponsored tweet that still included the PR agency's instructions, prompting Kotaku to call it 'the single greatest sponsored tweet of all time'[2]. ### When was Call of Duty: Ghosts revealed? The Call of Duty: Ghosts teaser trailer went up on YouTube on May 1, 2013 and pulled more than 11.7 million views and about 42,000 comments in its first five months[3]. ### Who develops Call Of Duty? Development rotates primarily between Infinity Ward, which made the original Modern Warfare in 2007 and Ghosts in 2013, and Treyarch, which handles the Black Ops line[1]. ## References 1. [https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-05-24-the-new-call-of-duty-modern-warfare-is-called-call-of-duty-modern-warfare]() 2. [https://kotaku.com/nba-rookie-also-video-game-marketing-rookie-1827003714]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/call-of-duty]() 4. [https://www.callofduty.com]() 5. [https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ftw/2018/06/20/deandre-ayton-latest-to-make-comical-error-of-forgetting-to-edit-a-sponsored-post/111177678/]() 6. [https://www.sbnation.com/2018/6/20/17486934/deandre-ayton-needs-to-work-on-his-tweets]() 7. 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