# X, X Everywhere X, X Everywhere is a phrasal template built around a contour drawing of Buzz Lightyear and Woody from Toy Story 2, where Buzz gestures outward while declaring that some noun is suddenly all around. The format started as a 420chan wordfilter prank in 2007 and grew into one of the longest-running image macro templates on the English-language web. ## Origin The underlying art comes from a dialogue scene in Pixar's Toy Story 2, released in 1999, where Buzz gestures across Andy's room while talking with Woody[2]. The meme form of the image was born on the imageboard 420chan in July 2007, when site administrator Kirtaner installed a wordfilter that replaced any text-less image posts with the caption "DICKS EVERYWHERE" to discourage lazy porn spam[3]. Users quickly turned the joke on its head by substituting whatever noun fit the attached picture, giving the template its "X, X EVERYWHERE" shape[3]. The rhetorical cadence predates the imageboards by a couple of centuries. Samuel Taylor Coleridge used a near-identical construction in part two of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, published in 1798, with the line "Water, water, every where"[3]. - **Platform:** 420chan (wordfilter) / 4chan (viral spread) - **Creator:** Unknown - **Date:** 2007 ## Overview The X, X Everywhere macro uses a contour drawing of Buzz Lightyear and Woody lifted from a scene inside Andy's house in Toy Story 2[1]. Buzz throws an arm toward the horizon while Woody looks on with mild alarm, and the two lines of text pin a repeated noun to the top and bottom of the frame to suggest that whatever it names has saturated the environment[3]. The tone is flexible. Posters use it to flag a trend they find exciting, to grumble about something that got annoying fast, or just to riff on whatever thread they are in[3]. Variations swap Buzz and Woody for other characters in the same pointing pose, but the pointing gesture plus duplicated noun is what makes the format readable at a glance. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is X, X Everywhere? It is an image macro that pairs a contour drawing of Buzz Lightyear and Woody from Toy Story 2 with a two-line caption repeating a noun, suggesting that noun is suddenly all around[3]. ### Where did X, X Everywhere come from? The macro started in July 2007 on 420chan, where administrator Kirtaner set up a wordfilter that captioned text-less image posts "DICKS EVERYWHERE" to deter spam, and users began swapping in their own nouns[3]. ### What does X, X Everywhere mean? It flags that whatever the noun names feels inescapable in a given context, used both to celebrate a trend and to complain about one depending on tone[3]. ### How do you use X, X Everywhere? People typically overlay the pointing Buzz and Woody lineart with the same noun at the top and bottom of the frame, picking whatever is flooding the thread, feed, or room they are posting about[1]. ### Is X, X Everywhere still popular? The macro is a classic template that saw its biggest surge in July 2010 around Toy Story 3's release and is still recognizable as a reference across imageboards and social platforms[3]. ## References 1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZu_4grt7WA]() 2. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63Jl9I29iQc]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/x-x-everywhere]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/x-x-everywhere Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library