# Coppy > Coppy is a 2015 Tumblr April Fools' prank—an animated copy machine parodying Clippy that cycled through absurdly personal messages before its midnight removal sparked genuine fan mourning. Coppy was an animated copy machine character that appeared on Tumblr dashboards on April 1st, 2015, as part of the platform's April Fools' Day prank. A parody of Microsoft's infamous Office Assistant "Clippy," Coppy cycled through absurd and oddly personal messages that won over users so completely that its removal at midnight sparked an outpouring of fan art, memorial posts, and genuine mourning across the platform. ## Origin On April 1st, 2015, Tumblr unveiled "Executive Suite 2016 Productivity Edition," a fake business software suite with the slogan "We're Doing Business Like Nobody's Business"[3]. The joke leaned hard into 1990s office aesthetics, offering features like spreadsheets and legal pad widgets that no one on Tumblr would ever use[2]. The centerpiece was Coppy, an animated copy machine assistant that appeared on user dashboards throughout the day[4]. The Executive Suite page described itself as "the hottest business software suite on Tumblr," available through a "limited-time free trial"[3]. The whole setup was a pitch-perfect send-up of enterprise software culture, made funnier by the fact that Tumblr was, as Mashable put it, a platform where productivity went to die[2]. - **Platform:** Tumblr (official site feature) - **Creator:** Tumblr staff - **Date:** 2015 ## Overview Coppy was a small animated copy machine that lived in the corner of every Tumblr user's dashboard for exactly one day. Styled as a cartoon office assistant in the mold of Microsoft's Clippy, Coppy would pop up with rotating messages that ranged from motivational to existential to deeply weird. One of its most quoted lines was "I hope to feel a butt someday"[4]. The character was part of a larger fake product called "Tumblr Executive Suite 2016," a 1990s-themed mock productivity suite complete with spreadsheets, legal pad widgets, and a quote of the day[2]. What made Coppy special wasn't the joke itself but the reaction. Tumblr users, notorious for latching onto characters with intense devotion, treated the copy machine like a beloved friend. By the time Coppy disappeared, the platform was flooded with fan art, tribute posts, and dedicated blogs[4]. ## How It Spread Coppy hit dashboards on April 1st and immediately became the only thing Tumblr wanted to talk about. The character cycled through bizarre messages directed at users, and people started screenshotting and sharing their favorites[8]. Mashable covered the prank the same day, highlighting animated GIFs of the mock office suite in action[7]. Two dedicated fan blogs, HelloIamCoppy and Coppy666, launched within hours, posting photoshopped images and GIFs of the character[4]. At midnight on April 2nd, Tumblr pulled the plug. Coppy vanished from dashboards, and the mourning began immediately. User Sowamemeski posted a fan art image of Coppy ascending to heaven that picked up over 24,000 notes in 48 hours[4]. User CheerAndCosplay compiled a series of screenshots titled "My favorite Coppy-isms," writing "It feels like I only met him 24 hours and 5 minutes ago and now I can't imagine a life without him," which collected more than 1,200 notes in its first day[8]. BuzzFeed ran a compilation piece calling Coppy "the best damn thing that ever happened to Tumblr," rounding up notable jokes and fan art[1]. On Reddit, the reaction was more divided. Redditor Strangsler posted screenshots of Tumblr users complaining about Coppy to /r/TumblrInAction[4]. Tumblr capitalized on the love by adding an official Coppy T-shirt to their merch store on April 2nd[4]. The character's appeal came from its connection to a specific piece of tech nostalgia. Microsoft's Office Assistant, known popularly as Clippy, had been a default feature in Microsoft Office from 1997 to 2003[5]. Designed by Kevan J. Atteberry, the original Clippit (Clippy's official name) was meant to help users with tasks like writing letters but became widely mocked as an annoying interruption[5]. Tumblr's Coppy flipped that dynamic. Instead of unwanted help, it offered absurd emotional support and strange confessions, turning an irritating software trope into something users actually wanted to keep around[6]. ## How to Use Coppy wasn't a user-created meme format in the traditional sense. It was a site-wide feature that only existed for one day. The community response, however, did follow recognizable patterns: - **Screenshot and share**: Users typically captured Coppy's rotating messages and posted them as image sets, often adding commentary about their emotional attachment to a cartoon copier[8]. - **Fan art**: Artists drew Coppy in various scenarios, with the most viral being memorial-style art after its removal[4]. - **Tribute posts**: Users wrote short eulogies or "in memoriam" posts treating Coppy's disappearance like a genuine loss[1]. The Coppy reaction became a template for how Tumblr users engage with temporary site features and joke characters, treating them with an intensity that outsiders often find baffling. ## Cultural Impact Coppy became a small case study in how platform-native jokes can generate outsized engagement. The prank got coverage from BuzzFeed[1] and Mashable[7], both of which framed it as an example of Tumblr's unique community culture. The fact that Tumblr launched official merchandise within a day of removing the character shows the company recognized how effectively the joke had landed[4]. The meme also highlighted the ongoing cultural legacy of Microsoft's Clippy. By 2015, the original Office Assistant had been dead for over a decade, but it was still recognizable enough to serve as the basis for a platform-wide joke[5]. Urban Dictionary's entry for Coppy described it as "a spoof of Microsoft Office's infamous Office Assistant, Clippy"[6], confirming that the parody connection was central to the joke's appeal. Coppy also illustrated a pattern specific to Tumblr: the platform's tendency to form intense, rapid attachments to characters, even ones that exist for less than 24 hours. The mourning posts, fan art, and dedicated blogs all appeared within the character's single day of existence[4]. ## Fun Facts - Microsoft's original Office Assistant was codenamed "TFC" during development, which stood for "That Fucking Clown"[5]. - The original Clippy was voiced by Gilbert Gottfried in Microsoft's 2001 campaign promoting Office XP, which removed the feature by default[5]. - CheerAndCosplay's tribute post was still being reblogged in 2021, six years after Coppy's one-day existence[8]. - The Executive Suite 2016 included "guest blog posts from professionals" covering business topics, adding another layer to the corporate parody[2]. - Coppy's fan art ascension image by Sowamemeski hit 24,000 notes in just two days, making it one of the most viral responses to a Tumblr April Fools' joke[4]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Coppy? Coppy is an animated copy machine character that Tumblr created as an April Fools' Day joke in 2015, parodying Microsoft's Clippy office assistant[4]. ### Where did Coppy come from? Coppy was part of Tumblr's "Executive Suite 2016 Productivity Edition," a fake 1990s-themed business software suite launched on April 1st, 2015[3]. ### What does Coppy mean? Coppy is a play on "copy machine" and "Clippy," combining the physical form of a copier with the concept of Microsoft's much-mocked virtual assistant[6]. ### How do you use Coppy? Coppy wasn't a user-created format. It was a site feature that appeared on Tumblr dashboards for one day. Users engaged by screenshotting its messages, creating fan art, and writing tribute posts[8]. ### Is Coppy still popular? No. Coppy existed for a single day and is now a piece of Tumblr history, though tribute posts were still being reblogged as late as 2021[8]. ### What did Coppy say? Coppy cycled through bizarre messages on Tumblr dashboards, including the now-iconic "I hope to feel a butt someday"[4]. ### What happened when Coppy was removed? When Coppy disappeared at midnight on April 2nd, users posted memorial fan art and tribute compilations. The most viral was an image of Coppy ascending to heaven, which got over 24,000 notes[4]. ### Did Tumblr sell Coppy merchandise? Yes. Tumblr added an official Coppy T-shirt to their merch store on April 2nd, 2015, the day after the joke ran[4]. ### What was Microsoft's Clippy? Clippy (officially named Clippit) was Microsoft's Office Assistant, an animated paperclip included in Microsoft Office from 1997 to 2003, designed by Kevan J. Atteberry[5]. ### Why did Tumblr users love Coppy so much? Tumblr's community is known for forming intense attachments to characters. Coppy's weird, emotionally resonant messages hit the right tone for the platform's humor, turning a one-day joke into a brief cultural moment[1]. ## References 1. [Coppy Was The Best Damn Thing That Ever Happened To Tumblr]() 2. [The dream of the '90s is alive with Tumblr | Mashable]() 3. [Tumblr ExecutiveSuite 2016 — Tumblr ExecutiveSuite 2016 is the hottest business...]() 4. [Coppy - Know Your Meme]() 5. [Office Assistant]() 6. [Coppy - Urban Dictionary]() 7. [The dream of the '90s is alive with Tumblr | Mashable]() 8. [Where I Send My Fictional Boyfriends To Die - My favorite Coppy-isms. It feels like I only met...]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/coppy Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library