# Trigglypuff Trigglypuff is the nickname 4chan gave to a Hampshire College student filmed loudly protesting Christina Hoff Sommers, Milo Yiannopoulos and Steven Crowder at UMass Amherst's 'The Triggering' event in April 2016. The clip of her flailing and shouting 'hate speech' spread within 48 hours into one of the defining anti-SJW mocking memes of the Gamergate era. ## Origin Catalyst event: On April 25th, 2016, Steven Crowder, Milo Yiannopoulos and Christina Hoff Sommers held 'The Triggering,' a UMass Amherst panel criticizing politically correct campus activism. Students in the audience began shouting 'hate speech' at the panelists, with one woman repeatedly yelling and gesturing at Sommers[2]. Earliest viral post: On April 26th, 2016, campus news site Campus Reform published a writeup of the disruption and uploaded footage of the event to YouTube, where it pulled over 786,000 views in 48 hours[2][3]. The nickname 'Trigglypuff' was coined the next day, April 27th, in a /pol/ thread where a user suggested the Jigglypuff portmanteau after an earlier thread had workshopped names like 'Cuck Carl' and 'AIDS Skrillex'[4]. - **Platform:** YouTube (source clip) / 4chan /pol/ (naming) / Reddit (viral spread) - **Creator:** Unknown (nickname coined by anonymous 4chan /pol/ user) - **Date:** 2016 ## Overview Trigglypuff refers to a Hampshire College student filmed red-faced and flailing her arms while shouting at panelists during 'The Triggering,' a UMass Amherst event criticizing campus political correctness[1]. The nickname is a portmanteau of 'trigger' and the Pokémon Jigglypuff, coined by an anonymous 4chan /pol/ poster who thought the student's round silhouette matched the pink Pokémon[4]. The meme itself is less a template than a shorthand. Posters paired screencaps of the student mid-shout with Pokémon stat cards, Garbage Pail Kids parody art, and Numa Numa style musical edits[5][6]. The joke relied almost entirely on the raw video, with edits exaggerating her shouting cadence or splicing in Milo Yiannopoulos reaction shots. Across /pol/, /r/KotakuInAction and anti-SJW Twitter, 'Trigglypuff' became a generic insult for any loud campus feminist protester[7]. ## How It Spread The Campus Reform YouTube upload did most of the early lifting, hitting six figures of views before the meme even had a name[3]. On April 26th, Redditor Herelam cross-posted the video to /r/KotakuInAction, where it collected around 2,000 upvotes and 690 comments inside 24 hours[5]. The same day, Twitter user @MikeMa_ posted a split clip of Yiannopoulos reacting to his own protester, which pulled roughly 2,900 likes and 1,400 retweets[1]. On April 27th, YouTuber Students of Odin posted an edit called 'The Legend of Trigglypuff' that reached the front page of /r/videos and /r/PoliticalVideo[6]. 4chan's /pol/ ran a dedicated Trigglypuff thread the same day, which was then mirrored on /r/4chan[7]. The nickname and hashtag '#TrigglyPuff' spread through anti-SJW Twitter over the next 48 hours[1]. By April 28th, Redditor skincube had drawn a Garbage Pail Kids parody trading card of her for /r/KotakuInAction[8], a dedicated /r/TrigglyPuff subreddit went up for ongoing mockery[9], and Encyclopedia Dramatica opened a page under the same name[10]. Urban Dictionary definitions, mostly written as mock Pokédex entries, followed within the week[11]. ## How to Use People typically used the name as a reaction label for footage of loud protesters or as the subject of Pokémon stat card parodies. A common convention was pairing the shouting clip with sped-up music (the Numa Numa 'Dragostea Din Tei' remix is the best known example) or splicing it against calm reaction shots of Milo Yiannopoulos[1]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Trigglypuff? Trigglypuff is the nickname 4chan gave to a Hampshire College student filmed shouting at panelists during the April 2016 'Triggering' event at UMass Amherst[1][4]. ### Where did Trigglypuff come from? The source footage comes from Campus Reform's April 26th, 2016 YouTube upload of the UMass panel, which pulled 786,000 views in 48 hours[2][3]. ### What does Trigglypuff mean? It is a portmanteau of 'trigger' (as in 'triggered') and the Pokémon Jigglypuff, coined by an anonymous poster on 4chan's /pol/ board on April 27th, 2016[4]. ### How do you use Trigglypuff? The name is used as a reaction label for footage of the UMass protester or as the subject of Pokémon stat card and Garbage Pail Kids parodies, often paired with Numa Numa style audio edits[6][8]. ### Is Trigglypuff still popular? It is a dated artifact of the 2016 Gamergate and anti-SJW internet, still referenced historically but no longer in active circulation outside archive sites like Encyclopedia Dramatica[10]. ## References 1. [https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=7528]() 2. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY1H1rZL53I]() 3. [https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/4gkxwv/protestors_go_crazy_during_the_triggering_event/]() 4. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/trigglypuff]() 5. [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/72152147/#72152769]() 6. [https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/4grosj/trigglypuff/]() 7. [https://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments/4gmumt/]() 8. [https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/4gse5x/humor_the_milotrigglypuff_thing_inspired_me_to/]() 9. [https://www.reddit.com/r/TrigglyPuff/]() 10. [https://encyclopediadramatica.wiki/index.php/Trigglypuff]() 11. 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