What is Cosmo Yelling?

Cosmo Yelling, or His Name Is X, is an image macro built from a Fairly OddParents screenshot of Cosmo grabbing Timmy by the collar, captioned with the phrasal template "I love that X / HIS NAME IS Y".

Where did Cosmo Yelling come from?

The screenshot is from the 2008 Fairly OddParents episode "Fairly OddBaby," and the caption format was popularized by Twitter user @ShyGaifu on April 8th, 2022.

What does Cosmo Yelling mean?

The joke has Cosmo "correcting" someone's nickname for a character by naming the franchise instead of the character, so both the original and the fix are wrong on purpose.

How do you use Cosmo Yelling?

Pair the Cosmo screenshot with two lines: a quoted nickname a casual fan might use, then Cosmo yelling "HIS NAME IS [FRANCHISE TITLE]" as if the game or show name were the character's name.

Is Cosmo Yelling still popular?

After the April 2022 Twitter burst, where posts referencing Yakuza, Earthbound and Team Fortress 2 each cleared tens of thousands of likes, the format kept circulating in gaming and anime fan circles as a reusable joke.

Cosmo Yelling

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Published October 27, 2026

Cosmo Yelling, also called His Name Is X, is an image macro built from a 2008 Fairly OddParents screenshot of Cosmo grabbing Timmy Turner by the collar. Twitter user @ShyGaifu kicked off the viral phrasing on April 8th, 2022, with a joke about Kazuma Kiryu from the Yakuza series2. Within days, players were plugging in characters from Ace Attorney, Team Fortress 2 and Earthbound to riff on the same wrong-name correction gag1.

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Overview

Cosmo Yelling, also known as His Name Is X, pairs a screenshot of Cosmo lifting Timmy by the collar with a two-line caption that follows the format "I love that [nickname] guy / HIS NAME IS [franchise title]"1. The joke works by having Cosmo loudly "correct" someone with the wrong name, usually swapping in the title of the game or show the character comes from rather than the character's actual name.

The source frame comes from the Fairly OddParents episode "Fairly OddBaby," where a pregnant Cosmo has a mood swing and grabs Timmy mid rant1. Posters favor video game and anime references, with punchlines that land because Cosmo's "fix" is just as wrong as the nickname being corrected. Earlier uses treated the still as a generic reaction image on Tumblr before the phrasal template locked the format in place1.

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Origin & Background

Platform

Tumblr (reaction image) / Twitter (viral spread)

Creator

@ShyGaifu

Date

2022

The screenshot comes from the Fairly OddParents episode "Fairly OddBaby," which aired on Nickelodeon on February 18th, 20083. Tumblr users started circulating the frame as a reaction image as early as December 2021, and it saw more pickup on the platform in March 2022, though the first poster is not documented1.

The caption format took shape on April 8th, 2022, when Twitter user @ShyGaifu posted the image with the text "'haha dame da ne guy' HIS NAME IS YAKUZA," a dig at people who know Kazuma Kiryu only through the Dame Da Ne meme rather than the Yakuza games2. The tweet pulled in more than 60,000 likes and 10,000 retweets inside five days1.

How It Spread

Riffs appeared within hours of @ShyGaifu's post. Later on April 8th, 2022, @randeeeznutz posted an Ace Attorney version that collected more than 8,000 likes and 1,500 retweets over five days4. Two days later, @fazfacts_ ran a Five Nights at Freddy's edit that reached over 8,600 likes and 940 retweets in three days5.

Fandom accounts took the format further the same week. On April 10th, @Tf2Cursed posted a Team Fortress 2 version that collected over 16,000 likes and 1,700 retweets in three days6. @sbebbyy followed on April 11th with an Earthbound entry that reached over 37,000 likes and 4,200 retweets in two days7. Each riff kept the two-line structure intact while piling on in-jokes about how casual fans tend to shorthand characters by game title.

Know Your Meme logged the format later that spring, grouping the Twitter burst with the earlier Tumblr reaction-image life of the Cosmo frame1. The template kept circulating in fan art and gaming Twitter circles well after the initial April 2022 run, since any franchise with a nickname-heavy fanbase could be slotted into the Y variable.

Timeline

2008-02-18

Fairly OddParents episode "Fairly OddBaby" airs on Nickelodeon, featuring the Cosmo-yelling scene that will later be screencapped[3].

2021-12

Earliest documented use of the Cosmo screenshot as a Tumblr reaction image[1].

2022-03

The reaction image sees more Tumblr activity ahead of its Twitter breakout[1].

2022-04-08

Twitter user @ShyGaifu posts the Yakuza version that defines the "HIS NAME IS X" phrasal template[2].

2022-04-08

@randeeeznutz adapts the format for the Ace Attorney series[4].

2022-04-10