# Pirateposting Pirateposting is a shitposting format that recaptions popular meme templates with pirate slang like "scurvy," "scallywag," and "landlubber," often pasting tricorne hats or eyepatches onto the original characters. Isolated pirate-themed edits circulated on iFunny starting November 2020, but the format hit critical mass in April 2023 when the Twitter gimmick account @pirate_posting started reposting community submissions. ## Overview Pirateposting is a shitposting format that recaptions popular meme templates with pirate slang like "scurvy," "scallywag," "matey," "landlubber," and "plunder," often pasting tricorne hats, eyepatches, or skull-and-crossbones onto the original characters [4]. Urban Dictionary describes the practice as "the act of posting complete nonsense to social media in the hopes of getting Pirate Booty," which captures the deliberately dumb tone [6]. A parallel video branch known as Pirate Irony ran alongside the caption-swap side, kicking off on TikTok in early 2023 with clips that mixed greenscreen pirate silhouettes, gold doubloons, treasure chests, and stock audio like a pirate shouting "There be treasure!"[2]. ## How It Spread Pirateposting crossed to Reddit's r/OkBuddyRetard in late 2022, and by early 2023 it was standard Instagram fare, with @trashcanpaul's "scallywags"-themed edit on January 2nd, 2023 pulling roughly 73,900 likes over four months [4]. TikToker @nokia95015 opened the video-side Pirate Irony branch on March 8th, 2023 with a Hood Irony-adjacent clip full of greenscreen pirate battles, gold doubloons, and treasure chests [2]. The video used a SpongeBob rendition of "What Shall We Do With the Drunken Sailor?" as its backing track [5]. Over its first month the clip pulled roughly 436,500 plays and 99,800 likes [2]. The Twitter gimmick account @pirate_posting launched on April 18th, 2023, openly modeled on the earlier @alienpostingg alien-posting account, and quickly went viral for pirate-edited templates [1]. Standout hits included a "My Brother In Christ" edit posted April 20th that pulled roughly 9,300 likes in 13 days and a "Worst Person You Know Made a Great Point" edit the following day that hit roughly 39,800 likes in 12 days [1]. ## How to Use Typical pirateposting edits start with a recognizable exploitable template and swap key words for pirate slang; common substitutions include "scurvy" for any illness or condition, "scallywag" or "landlubber" for insults, and "booty" or "plunder" for anything valuable. Some edits also paste a tricorne hat, eyepatch, or skull onto the original character, and the joke usually lives in the mismatch between the template's usual tone and the deliberately dumb pirate voice [1]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Pirateposting? Pirateposting is a shitposting format that recaptions popular meme templates with pirate slang like "scurvy," "scallywag," and "landlubber," widely popularized by the Twitter gimmick account @pirate_posting from April 2023 onward [1]. ### Where did Pirateposting come from? Isolated pirate-themed template edits first appeared on iFunny in November 2020, and Instagram picked up the format in May 2022 with @accidental_indie_memes' "scurvy" edit [3]. ### What does Pirateposting mean? It refers to adding pirate words, phrases, and imagery to existing meme templates; Urban Dictionary defines the act more casually as "posting complete nonsense to social media in the hopes of getting Pirate Booty" [6]. ### How do you use Pirateposting? Take an exploitable meme template and swap key words for pirate vocabulary like "scurvy," "scallywag," "landlubber," "booty," or "plunder," often pasting a tricorne hat or eyepatch onto the original character; the @pirate_posting Twitter account popularized this by reposting community submissions [1]. ### Is Pirateposting still popular? Pirateposting hit peak virality in mid-2023, driven by the @pirate_posting Twitter account and the Pirate Irony TikTok branch started by @nokia95015 in March 2023 [2]. ## References 1. [https://twitter.com/pirate_posting]() 2. [https://www.tiktok.com/@nokia95015]() 3. [https://www.instagram.com/accidental_indie_memes/]() 4. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/pirateposting]() 5. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EFfK3vhwdA]() 6. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Pirateposting]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/pirateposting Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library