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"It's a Tarp!" is an intentional misspelling that spawned one of the more frequently posted derivatives.
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In the Nintendo Wii version of LucasArts' action-adventure video game Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, released on September 16th, 2008, Admiral Ackbar can be played as a hidden character if the player enters the cheat code "ITSATWAP." "It's a TARP!"
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b/tard #2: No! It's a tarp! Star Wars: The Force Unleashed It is popularly used sarcastically on message boards and chan sites. On May 20th, 2009, an Urban Dictionary entry was created for the phrase:Ī phrase based on a misspelling of "It's a trap" a phrase and meme said by Ackbar in Star Wars Episode VI. Following the launch of YouTube in 2005, more than a thousand fan-made videos that prominently feature or parody Admiral Ackbar's line and the extended dialogue were uploaded to the video sharing site. Around the same time, shortly after the launch of the imageboard community 4chan, the phrase became closely associated with traps, a slang term for a photograph of a model or illustration of an anime character wherein the gender of the subject seems to be ambiguous or androgynous in appearance. Beginning in 2004, the joke spawned hundreds of parody sites featuring the soundbite of Admiral Ackbar's quote on YTMND, with the most notable instance uploaded by user MultiKoopa on June 2nd, 2005, which has garnered more than 313,000 views (as of April 2016). Sometime in the early 2000s, Something Awful administrator OMGWTFBBQ created and uploaded an image macro based on a screenshot of Admiral Ackbar from Return of the Jedi with the caption that reads "IT'S A TRAP."Īccording to various accounts, the image macro soon became adopted as a popular reaction image used to warn others of a potential bait-and-switch prank ahead, and by mid-to-late 2002, the phrase had made its way to FARK and continued to gain traction as a running joke in Photoshop Phriday threads.