# Chickun

Chickun is a 4chan image macro format built around warped, face-swapped stills of Scootaloo from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, paired with the chant "Arise, Chickun" borrowed from an Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode. The threads spread on /b/ in the early 2010s as both an in-joke and deliberate bait aimed at anti-brony posters.

## Overview
Chickun is a 4chan image macro format built around photoshopped, edited, and face-swapped stills of Scootaloo, the pegasus filly from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic[1]. The pictures pair her wide-mouthed, buggy-eyed expression with the chant "Arise, Chickun," lifted from Aqua Teen Hunger Force[2].

The threads mostly ran on /b/ and adjacent boards, where the joke worked as both an inside gag for the brony crowd and as pointed spam aimed at the anti-brony camp[3]. The recognizable look is a single warped Scootaloo frame that gets stretched, tiled, and dropped into unrelated macros[4].

## How It Spread
After 4chan tightened its rules and pushed pony content off /b/ into the dedicated /mlp/ board, some posters started dropping Scootaloo Chickun threads back on /b/ to bait moderators and pull reactions out of the anti-brony crowd[4]. A tripcode user going by "Smokey" was flagged in board discussions as one of the more persistent posters running the threads[4].

The tag stuck on image-hosting sites, with Derpibooru maintaining a dedicated Chickun pool for edits and remixes[5]. Urban Dictionary entries piled on with their own takes, from affectionate "fluffy creature" definitions to Scouse slang treating "chickun" as a pronunciation of chicken[6].

## How to Use
A typical Chickun edit takes the wide-eyed Scootaloo frame and either face-swaps it onto another character or tiles it across a background, often captioned with "Arise Chickun" in the ritual-chant style from Aqua Teen Hunger Force[2]. On 4chan the format is commonly posted as an OP image to start a thread, with replies stacking more warped Scootaloo edits[4].

## Frequently Asked Questions
### What is Chickun?
Chickun is a 4chan image macro format using photoshopped Scootaloo faces from My Little Pony paired with the chant "Arise, Chickun"[3].

### Where did Chickun come from?
The visual is from a season three My Little Pony scene and the fandom joke that Scootaloo is a chicken, while the chant is from the Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "Video Ouija"[1].

### What does Chickun mean?
Chickun is a deliberate misspelling of chicken tied to Scootaloo, who Apple Bloom teases as a chicken because she cannot fly[3].

### How do you use Chickun?
Edits typically face-swap the warped Scootaloo frame into unrelated images and caption them with the "Arise, Chickun" chant borrowed from Billy Witch Doctor's resurrection ritual[2].

### Is Chickun still popular?
Chickun is a classic 4chan-era format from the early 2010s brony wars, and tagged image pools for it are still archived on sites like Derpibooru[5].

## References
1. [https://gyropedia.fandom.com/wiki/Arise_Chickun](<https://gyropedia.fandom.com/wiki/Arise_Chickun>)
2. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu54kU0ebqE](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu54kU0ebqE>)
3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/chickun](<https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/chickun>)
4. [https://archive.4plebs.org/q/](<https://archive.4plebs.org/q/>)
5. [https://derpibooru.org/tags/chickun](<https://derpibooru.org/tags/chickun>)
6. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Chickun](<https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Chickun>)

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