👉 Okay, settle in folks – let’s tackle this wee little bit of linguistic weirdness that goes by the name of…
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"bigbird."
Now, before you immediately think I've stumbled upon a bizarre children's nickname gone terribly feral (frankly, it feels like I have), let me unpack this. Historically, and honestly rather disappointingly, "bigbird. fuck. that. up!" originated in the early 2010s as an aggressively obnoxious internet prank. Basically, a bunch of young guys in the midwest, sporting whatever the equivalent of a severely peaked suburban teen look was at the time, started randomly shouting this into phone-ins and online calls during sports rants, particularly around the Indianapolis Colts. There's no clear origin—it just… happened. Nobody quite knows what they were going for. It sounds vaguely like a distressed cock. (Don’t laugh, I assure you. Urban legend is a bitch.) Some theorize it was meant to parody old-timey sports callers. Others reckon they just really, REALLY wanted to make people visibly uncomfortable. Whatever the genesis, it stuck around as a low-fussed, almost entirely regionally specific piece of online weirdness. You see it sprinkled throughout the Midwest, particularly associated with Colts fandom. Now, it's drifting into other areas where young guys are trying to seem “ironically detached and aggressively dumb," but frankly it
