# You've Been Gnomed You've Been Gnomed is a short 3D animation of a gnome named Noggin Clontith laughing before leaning into the camera and declaring the title phrase. Originally a 2010 web ad for a British gnome fan site, it sat dormant for years before Reddit crate-diggers hauled it onto /r/DeepIntoYouTube in 2015 and turned the clip into a bait-and-switch prank staple[1][2]. ## Origin The Noggin Clontith character predates the meme itself. The domain NogginClontith.co.uk was registered on May 29th, 2008, hosting short stories and media built around the gnome[2]. The video that became the meme was uploaded on March 7th, 2010 by YouTube account angie8051 under the filename "youve been gnomed.wmv," promoting the site with the gnome's laugh-and-reveal gag[1][2]. For roughly five years the upload sat as a niche curio. By 2018 it had pulled in more than 230,000 views and over 320 comments, though most of that traffic came after Reddit discovered it[2]. - **Platform:** YouTube (origin) / Reddit (viral spread) - **Creator:** angie8051 (YouTube uploader) - **Date:** 2010 ## Overview The clip is a 20-ish-second CGI advert where a stubby, bearded gnome cackles to himself before snapping toward the viewer with the line "You've been gnomed!"[1]. The character is Noggin Clontith, a mascot from a small British fiction site that predates the video by two years[2]. The humor hinges on the smash-cut reveal, which made the format slot neatly into the same bait-link slot as Rickrolling. The copypasta half of the meme formalized the bit into a script. The full version, logged on the Trollpasta Wiki, opens with "Hello me old chum! I'm gnot a gnelf, I'm gnot a gnoblin, I'm a gnome, and you've been GNOMED!"[3]. People paste the line into unrelated threads or hide the YouTube link behind an innocuous description, which is where the "gnoming" comes in[3]. Stylistically the meme leans into its own jank. The MS Paint-tier 3D model, the .wmv filename, and the overexposed laugh are the point, which is why a deep-fried edit by YouTuber Frootlewpz slotted in so cleanly during the 2016 deep-frying wave[2]. ## How It Spread The clip's second life started on November 5th, 2015, when Redditor Rolfy posted it to /r/DeepIntoYouTube, a subreddit built around pulling weird videos out of YouTube's long tail[2]. From there the format fed into copypasta culture: on January 5th, 2016, a page documenting the "gnomed" script went up on the Trollpasta Wiki[3]. A dedicated "You've Been Gnomed" Facebook page launched on February 1st, 2016, and later that year, on September 30th, Frootlewpz uploaded a deep-fried remix that pushed the gag back into front-page meme circulation[2]. Urban Dictionary entries note another popularity spike around November and December 2018, when the clip was being used as a Rickroll-style bait on social feeds[4]. The biggest Reddit moment came on January 20th, 2018, when the original video hit /r/youtubehaiku and pulled more than 1,900 points at 90% upvoted within a month[2]. The subreddit's short-form bias was a near-perfect fit for the clip's smash-cut punchline, and the thread cemented "gnoming" as a verb in the same family tree as rickrolling. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is You've Been Gnomed? It's a 2010 CGI clip of the gnome character Noggin Clontith laughing before yelling "You've been gnomed!" at the viewer, used online as a bait-link prank[1]. ### Where did You've Been Gnomed come from? YouTube uploader angie8051 posted it on March 7th, 2010 as an advert for the NogginClontith.co.uk fiction site, which had been running since 2008[1][2]. ### What does You've Been Gnomed mean? "Gnoming" someone means tricking them into watching the clip or reading the copypasta that starts "I'm gnot a gnelf, I'm gnot a gnoblin, I'm a gnome"[3]. ### How do you use You've Been Gnomed? People typically disguise the YouTube link in an unrelated comment or DM, or paste the full copypasta script into threads for a reveal gag[3]. ### Is You've Been Gnomed still popular? It had major revivals on Reddit in 2015 and 2018 and a tracked popularity bump in late 2018 as a Rickroll alternative, keeping it in rotation as a classic bait meme[2][4]. ## References 1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n3pFFPSlW4]() 2. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/youve-been-gnomed]() 3. [https://lolpasta.fandom.com/wiki/You%27ve_Been_Gnomed]() 4. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Youve%20Been%20Gnomed]() 5. [http://nogginclontith.co.uk/]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/youve-been-gnomed Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library