# Noelisme Noelisme is a French internet subculture that grew out of the jeuxvideo.com forums in 2006, built around a Christmas-hat smiley and a shared vernacular of inside jokes. What started as one user spamming a :noel: emoticon on a teen forum grew into a rowdy online movement blamed for raids, forum wars, and moral panic in the French press. ## Origin Noelisme began on jeuxvideo.com, a French gaming portal with an old-style age-segmented forum system, in 2006[1]. The specific birthplace was the 'Bla-Bla 15-18 ans' board for teenagers aged 15 to 18, where a user known as Triplepatte began stamping every one of his posts with one of the site's built-in emoticons: a small face wearing a Christmas hat, coded as :noel: (from Noël, the French word for Christmas)[1]. Other posters latched onto the smiley and turned it into a group identity. The movement took the name Noelisme from that emoticon code, and its followers styled themselves Noelistes[1]. From the start the group defined itself in opposition to another camp on the same forum, the Hapistes, who rallied around the :happy: smiley (translated from French)[1]. - **Platform:** jeuxvideo.com (forum origin) - **Creator:** Triplepatte (earliest known user of the :noel: smiley) - **Date:** 2006 ## Overview Noelisme is best understood as a French-language forum tribe rather than a single image or catchphrase. Its members, called Noelistes, share a vernacular of inside jokes, a mascot smiley with a Christmas hat, and a habit of coordinated pile-ons against users they mock as 'kikoolol', 'kikoo' or 'pyj'[1]. Observers have compared the group to a French juvenile version of Anonymous or the Chinese 'human flesh search engine', a comparison rooted in the group's raid tactics against blogs and other websites[1]. The culture is defined less by a template than by a set of running bits: worship of Chuck Norris as a deity, ritual forum wars against a rival faction called the Hapistes (who used a competing :happy: smiley), and a taste for satire that produced parody sites like Noelshack (an ImageShack knockoff), Noelbook, Noelpedia and Noelfica[1]. The tone swings between absurdist humor and genuine harassment, which is why French coverage of the group was so mixed. ## How to Use Being a Noeliste typically meant signing posts with the :noel: smiley, dropping Chuck Norris references, and using the group's slang against outsiders. The common convention on jeuxvideo.com forums was to mock newer or younger users as 'kikoolol' and to escalate disputes with rival factions into full forum wars rather than one-off replies[1]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Noelisme? Noelisme is a French internet subculture whose members, the Noelistes, are known for a shared vernacular, forum raids and coordinated cyberbullying against users they label 'kikoolol'[1]. ### Where did Noelisme come from? It started in 2006 on the Bla-Bla 15-18 ans teen forum of the French gaming site jeuxvideo.com, where a user called Triplepatte began stamping his posts with the :noel: Christmas-hat smiley[1]. ### What does Noelisme mean? The name comes from the smiley code :noel:, itself short for Noël, the French word for Christmas, which the group adopted as its symbol (translated from French)[1]. ### How do you use Noelisme? Participation typically meant signing forum posts with the :noel: smiley, joking about Chuck Norris as a god, and joining raids or forum wars against rival groups like the Hapistes[1]. ### Is Noelisme still popular? Noelisme is a classic slice of 2000s French web history tied to jeuxvideo.com forums and Dailymotion, and it is still referenced in write-ups about that era rather than driving new posts[1][2]. ## References 1. [https://www.jeuxvideo.com/forums/0-51-0-1-0-1-0-blabla-15-18-ans.htm]() 2. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CgSIP0vnu8]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/noelisme]() 4. [http://partinoeliste.blogspace.fr/1/]() 5. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Noelisme]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/noelisme Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library