# Give Pikachu A Face Give Pikachu A Face is an exploitable drawing game built around a blank template of Pikachu's head, which users fill in with any face they want. It started as a 4chan /b/ thread in 2008 and kept resurfacing on forums like Something Awful, GameStop, and OnePlus for more than a decade. ## Overview Give Pikachu A Face is an exploitable image game built around a blank template of Pikachu, the Pokémon mascot[2]. Participants take the empty face area and draw in whatever they want, from cartoon expressions to celebrity portraits to grotesque scribbles. The head-only crop is the most common canvas, though some editors work with full-body Pikachu shots too[3]. The appeal is the contrast between Pikachu's soft, familiar silhouette and whatever unhinged face someone bolts onto it. Threads collecting hundreds of edits still pop up on old-school message boards, and the format works as a lightweight drawing prompt for anyone with a paint program[1]. ## How It Spread The game jumped off 4chan and started showing up on hobby forums within a year. On April 25th, 2009, Something Awful user Melted Clocks opened a Give Pikachu A Face thread that ran for pages of user submissions[1]. That thread was promoted into Something Awful's Comedy Goldmine section on June 28th, 2009, the site's showcase for stand-out community posts[5]. A separate thread appeared on the GameStop forums around the same window[6]. The template kept resurfacing every few years on unrelated communities. On October 15th, 2014, a fresh Give Pikachu A Face thread went up on the OnePlus phone forums, drawing edits from users with no obvious link to 4chan or Something Awful[7]. On November 5th, 2017, the Facebook page Listables published a roundup of standout edits from across the game's history[8]. That kind of periodic revival is why the format still turns up on new platforms almost two decades after Bioviral's original drawing. ## How to Use Grab the blank Pikachu template, open it in any image editor, and draw a face inside the empty area. Common conventions include swapping in famous faces, exaggerated cartoon expressions, or deliberately crude MS Paint scrawls[1]. Threads typically encourage posting your version as a reply so the whole gallery builds in one place. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Give Pikachu A Face? It is an exploitable image game where users take a blank template of Pikachu and draw a new face onto it, then share the result[3]. ### Where did Give Pikachu A Face come from? The source Pikachu drawing was posted by DeviantArt user Bioviral on June 6th, 2004[2], and it became a face-drawing game on 4chan's /b/ board in 2008[4]. ### What does Give Pikachu A Face mean? It is a call to participate in a drawing game, where the challenge is inventing the most funny or absurd face for the blank Pikachu template[1]. ### How do you use Give Pikachu A Face? Save the blank Pikachu image, draw any face onto it in an image editor, and post your version in the thread or feed where the prompt appeared[1]. ### Is Give Pikachu A Face still popular? The format has resurfaced periodically on new platforms, including a OnePlus forum thread in 2014[7] and a Facebook roundup by the page Listables in 2017[8]. ## References 1. [https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3124749&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1]() 2. [https://www.deviantart.com/bioviral/art/Pikachu]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/give-pikachu-a-face]() 4. [https://4chanarchive.org/thread/draw-pikachus-face]() 5. [https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3160000]() 6. [https://www.gamestop.com/forums/photoshop-this-give-pikachu-a-face]() 7. [https://forums.oneplus.com/threads/give-pikachu-a-face.253]() 8. [https://www.facebook.com/Listables/posts/give-pikachu-a-face]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/give-pikachu-a-face Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library