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Get Dunked On

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Published October 15, 2026

"Get Dunked On" started as a 2009 Snickers commercial tagline from NBA player Patrick Ewing, then returned in 2012 as the signoff of a joke League of Legends guide where YouTuber notue shouted the line after every kill. By 2015, Undertale's skeleton boss Sans delivered the phrase on the Genocide route game-over screen, and the Undertale fandom turned it into a go-to euphemism for brutal defeat on Tumblr.

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Overview

Across Tumblr, Discord and gaming forums, Get Dunked On works as both a victory taunt after flattening someone and a self-mocking caption for one-sided losses5. Posts range from clips of Sans one-shotting an Undertale player to screenshots of actual basketball dunks pasted with the line, often typed in the elongated "geeettttttt dunked on!!" style lifted from Sans' in-game dialogue3.

Within the League of Legends community, "dunking" picked up a secondary meaning as slang for any champion with a leaping damage ability, with Darius, Lee Sin and Jarvan IV among the champions most often tagged as "dunkers"8. Undertale fans later linked the quote with basketball iconography and Froggy Fresh's track "Dunked On," producing fanart that reimagined Sans as an unlikely basketball player.

Origin & Background

Platform
TV commercial / YouTube (viral spread)
Date
2009

In basketball, a slam dunk is scored by leaping and placing the ball directly through the hoop with one or two hands4. Patrick Ewing's 2009 Snickers commercial contains the earliest known on-screen use of the exact catchphrase1. In the spot, Ewing shatters a backboard on top of a man eating a candy bar, with "Get dunked on!" delivered as the final tag. The ad caught limited internet attention at the time before fading from circulation3.

Three years later, YouTube user notue uploaded "pro as heck guide to master yi," a 2012 mock tutorial for the League of Legends champion Master Yi filled with fake item names, invented monster names and the catchphrase "Get dunked!" shouted after every kill2.

How It Spread

After the Master Yi video, "dunking" filtered into League of Legends vocabulary, with players using it for any big leap-and-kill play. Riot nodded back at the community by shipping Dunkmaster Darius in 2014, a skin that redrew the champion as a basketball player, and gave at least one later champion an ability voice line that shouts "Get dunked!" directly6.

Undertale's September 2015 release gave the phrase a second life. On the Genocide route, if the player tries to Spare Sans during the final battle, Sans fires an unavoidable attack that kills them, and the game cuts to a modified game-over screen where Sans addresses the player with "geeettttttt dunked on!!"7. The sequence runs over a sped-up remix of the game's "Megalovania" theme, and the mix of difficulty and dialogue made the moment one of the most retold in the Undertale fandom.

By late 2015, Tumblr blogs tagged under "get dunked on" paired Sans fanart with basketball jokes and references to Froggy Fresh's song "Dunked On"3. Urban Dictionary entries from that stretch define the phrase both as "to completely own a person" and as what Sans says at the end of Undertale's Genocide route5.

Timeline

2009

Snickers commercial featuring NBA player Patrick Ewing introduces "Get dunked on!" as its closing tag.

2012

YouTube user notue uploads "pro as heck guide to master yi," popularizing "Get dunked!" in League of Legends circles.

2014

Riot Games releases the Dunkmaster Darius skin, canonizing "dunking" slang inside League of Legends.

2015-09

Undertale launches, with Sans delivering "geeettttttt dunked on!!" on the Genocide route game-over screen.

2015

Tumblr fandom adopts the quote as an all-purpose euphemism for brutal defeat and links it to Froggy Fresh's "Dunked On."

How to Use This Meme

Typical posts attach the line to any clip or image of a decisive blowout, whether an in-game kill, a lost argument, a sports highlight or a self-inflicted disaster5. Captions often use the elongated "geeettttttt dunked on!!" spelling to lean into the Sans association, and Undertale fans sometimes attach basketball imagery or Froggy Fresh audio.

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