# Inglip Inglip is a mock dark lord invented on Reddit in January 2011 after a user framed a randomly generated CAPTCHA reading 'Inglip Summoned' as a supernatural event. The joke spread from r/f7u12 into a full internet mythology with acolytes called Gropagas, a fantasy kingdom named Trathira, and its own scripture. It became one of the defining Reddit inside jokes of 2011. ## Origin The joke started on January 8, 2011, when a Redditor posted a rage comic titled 'Dark Captcha magic' to the f7u12 board. The comic featured a ReCaptcha that had generated the words 'Inglip summoned,' which the poster framed as a supernatural event[4]. The name stuck because 'Inglip' sounded like it could plausibly belong to some minor demon from an obscure grimoire. Within days, other Redditors ran with the premise, screenshotting their own CAPTCHAs whenever the algorithm produced usable phrases and building out a shared mythology from the results on the f7u12 board[3]. - **Platform:** Reddit (r/f7u12) - **Creator:** Unknown - **Date:** 2011 ## Overview Inglip works as an ongoing collaborative gag built entirely around CAPTCHA text. Contributors screenshot ReCaptcha prompts that happen to spell suggestive or bizarre English fragments, then wrap them in rage comics where Lord Inglip issues commands to his followers[1]. The humor comes from pretending random algorithm output is divine instruction, with each new CAPTCHA treated as scripture from a dark lord. The cast expanded past the title character. Followers are called Gropagas, the mock religion goes by Dectrip, and antagonist characters get promoted into the canon whenever their comic breaks 100 upvotes on Reddit[4]. Every strip hinges on the two-word CAPTCHA structure, so posts read like fortune cookies pulled from a randomizer and then interpreted with mock seriousness. ## How It Spread By spring 2011, Inglip had jumped past the original subreddit. A dedicated r/Inglip community formed alongside the Inglipnomicon compendium, which archived the strips as if they were sacred texts[3]. The fictional land of Trathira and Inglip's war to establish his kingdom on Earth became running plotlines, and top-voted comics were folded into the shared canon. BuzzFeed picked up the story in early 2011, framing the project as Redditors summoning 'the dark lord of CAPTCHA' and pointing readers toward the Inglipnomicon for more[1]. Coverage on MemeBase and Urlesque followed, and single-serving sites like Inglips.com, The Church of Inglip, and the InglipTold.Us comic generator sprang up so anyone could produce their own scripture. YouTuber sweederlander started uploading a series titled 'The Chronicles of Lord Inglip' in February 2011, dramatizing the strips as short narrated fantasy episodes[2]. Around the same time, one panel of a shocked Gropaga from the comics got recycled into the widely used 'OMG Rage Face,' which spread past Inglip into general rage comic vocabulary. ## How to Use The format is simple: grab a screenshot of any CAPTCHA that spits out a strange English phrase, then draw a short rage comic where Lord Inglip issues that phrase as a command to his Gropagas. The two random words typically become either an order, a threat, or the name of a new antagonist that gets added to the Trathira canon. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Inglip? Inglip is a mock dark lord invented on Reddit in 2011, whose followers translate randomly generated CAPTCHA words into commands in a running rage comic series[1]. ### Where did Inglip come from? It started on r/f7u12 on January 8, 2011, when a Redditor posted a rage comic based on a CAPTCHA that read 'Inglip summoned'[1]. ### What does Inglip mean? The word itself is meaningless, it came from a ReCaptcha algorithm output that the original poster treated as a supernatural summoning and turned into a mock religion[5]. ### How do you use Inglip? Screenshot a CAPTCHA that produces a strange English phrase, then draw a rage comic where Lord Inglip commands his Gropagas to carry out whatever the CAPTCHA says[3]. ### Is Inglip still popular? It peaked in 2011 and faded soon after, but the r/Inglip subreddit and the Inglipnomicon archive still exist as a snapshot of early-2010s Reddit humor[3]. ## References 1. [https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrismenning/redditors-summon-inglip-dark-lord-of-captcha]() 2. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3TDysbEnWE]() 3. [https://www.reddit.com/r/Inglip/]() 4. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/inglip]() 5. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Inglip]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/inglip Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library