# Cookie Clicker Cookie Clicker is a browser-based incremental game where players click a giant cookie to bake more cookies and buy upgrades that automate production. French developer Julien "Orteil" Thiennot released it on August 8, 2013, and it became a defining early example of the idle-game genre, spawning countless imitators and inspiring fan Tumblrs, Minecraft rebuilds, and a Kaiyodo figurine within its first two months. ## Overview Cookie Clicker is a browser game built around clicking an oversized cookie in the middle of the screen to bake virtual cookies[1]. Players spend those cookies on upgrades like cursors, grandmas, farms, mines, and factories, each one automating production so the counter keeps climbing without any more clicks. Text along the top of the page cycles through milestone lines as the total grows, adding a running commentary to the operation[1]. Two versions of Cookie Clicker exist: the original experimental prototype and a later polished actual game, both hosted on Orteil's Dashnet domain[1]. An early Urban Dictionary entry called it "a fucking addictive game" that gives players "the illusion that you are making cookies, but you are really not," catching the mix of pointlessness and compulsion players kept describing[5]. ## How It Spread Orteil shared the link on his @Orteil42 Twitter feed on August 9, 2013[2]. Within 48 hours a fan wiki went up, /r/Gaming picked up the post with 216 upvotes, and /r/WebGames, /r/InternetIsBeautiful, and a dedicated /r/CookieClicker subreddit all appeared[3]. A Metafilter thread from the same stretch ran briefly before being deleted at the poster's request[4]. On August 18, Orteil said on his blog that Cookie Clicker was averaging around 200,000 daily players and confirmed work on a mobile app version[1]. Community creations kept multiplying through the fall: YouTuber DEElekgolo posted a stylized "cookie.avi" montage and GIF set that pulled more than 21,000 Tumblr notes in 48 hours, Minecraft player sethbling rebuilt Cookie Clicker inside Minecraft on September 8, Japanese figure maker Kaiyodo announced a Cookie Clicker Grandma figurine on September 19, Vinesauce posted a Cookie Clicker themed Super Mario Bros. level on September 23, and musicians The Living Tombstone and Mic the Microphone released a tribute track called "Collecting Cookies" on March 5, 2014[3]. ## How to Use Load the game at Orteil's Dashnet page, click the giant cookie to bake cookies, and spend those cookies on cursors, grandmas, farms, and later factories, mines, and more exotic buildings that bake for you automatically[1]. The typical loop is: click for a while, buy the cheapest upgrade, watch the per-second rate rise, and keep reinvesting so the counter grows on its own even while you tab away. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Cookie Clicker? Cookie Clicker is a browser-based incremental game where players click a giant cookie to bake more cookies, then spend those cookies on upgrades that automate production[1]. ### Where did Cookie Clicker come from? French video game designer Julien "Orteil" Thiennot released Cookie Clicker on August 8, 2013, first posting the link on 4chan's /v/ (Video Games) board with the tagline "the best vidya ever"[3]. ### What does Cookie Clicker mean? It's a browser "clicker" game about baking cookies, built around turning a single manual click into a self-running cookie empire through stacked upgrades[1]. ### How do you use Cookie Clicker? Load the game at Orteil's Dashnet site, click the big cookie to bake cookies, then spend those cookies on cursors, grandmas, and other buildings that auto-bake for you[1]. ### Is Cookie Clicker still popular? By August 18, 2013, Orteil reported that Cookie Clicker was averaging around 200,000 daily players[1], and community activity through late 2013 into 2014 included a Minecraft rebuild, a Kaiyodo Grandma figurine, and a tribute song by The Living Tombstone[3]. ## References 1. [https://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/]() 2. [https://twitter.com/Orteil42]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cookie-clicker]() 4. [https://www.metafilter.com/131013/Cookie-Game]() 5. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Cookie%20Clicker]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/cookie-clicker Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library