# Noob Tube Noob Tube is gaming slang for the under-barrel grenade launcher attachment on assault rifles in first-person shooter games. The term traces to a 2004 Halo 2 forum post and blew up during the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 era, when the M203 became shorthand for cheap, low-skill kills that turned entire lobbies into grenade spam. ## Origin The earliest documented use came in 2004, when a Scenyx Entertainment Community Forums user named 67thRaptorBull labeled the Halo 2 Fuel Rod Cannon a "Noob Tube" shortly after the game launched on Xbox on November 9th, 2004[3]. The label carried over in 2005 to the under-slung grenade launcher on EA's Battlefield 2, then broke through in November 2007 when Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare shipped with an M203 attachment that filled online lobbies with grenade spam and made the term mainstream[3]. - **Platform:** Scenyx Entertainment Community Forums (origin) / Call of Duty franchise (viral spread) - **Creator:** Unknown - **Date:** 2004 ## Overview The label applies to any under-slung explosive launcher, whether that is the M203, the Russian GP-30 or later the M319, that a player can swap to with a single button press[1]. Because the projectile deals splash damage across an area, scoring a kill takes rough aim rather than crosshair discipline, which is exactly why the weapon picked up the "noob" prefix[2]. In practice, most Noob Tube users are not new players. They tend to be veterans who lean on the launcher to farm easy kills or bait the opposing team into rage, which often flips whole lobbies into copycat tubing sessions where nothing else gets fired[2]. The mechanic was despised enough that "getting tubed" became its own online complaint, and Noob Tube stuck as a catch-all insult for any FPS weapon that trades skill for splash[3]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Noob Tube? Noob Tube is FPS gaming slang for an under-slung grenade launcher attachment on an assault rifle, activated by a button press to switch from bullet fire to explosive rounds[1]. ### Where did Noob Tube come from? The earliest documented use is a 2004 Scenyx Entertainment Community Forums post by user 67thRaptorBull, who applied the term to Halo 2's Fuel Rod Cannon[3]. ### What does Noob Tube mean? It labels a tube-shaped grenade launcher as a weapon that takes little skill to score kills with, since splash damage forgives bad aim and gives the enemy no time to react[2]. ### How do you use Noob Tube? In-game, players press the fire-mode switch to flip from rifle to launcher, then aim roughly toward the enemy for a splash kill; as slang, "getting tubed" means getting killed by a launcher blast[1]. ### Is Noob Tube still popular? The term stuck as classic FPS shorthand for cheap play, with its peak during the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 era in 2009 and 2010[3]. ## References 1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO7wtliJqPM]() 2. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Noob%20Tube]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/noob-tube]() 4. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2iHae9m15A]() 5. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFXx_y0b_2Q]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/noob-tube Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library