Chickun meme · memes.md

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Fan art applying the chickun beak expression to the entire Mane Six cast of My Little Pony.
Vector rendering of Scootaloo wearing the trademark chickun expression.
Original 4chan thread where the 'Arise Chickun' macro was posted, documenting the meme's spread on the site.
Fan art of Chickun casually gaming, one of many everyday-scenario spinoffs of the meme.
The 'Hello, Yes, This Is Chickun' macro, one of the most widely reposted variants of the meme.

History

Chickun is a 4chan image macro format built around warped, face-swapped stills of Scootaloo from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, paired with the chant "Arise, Chickun" borrowed from an Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode. The threads spread on /b/ in the early 2010s as both an in-joke and deliberate bait aimed at anti-brony posters.

Origin

The visual gag traces back to a running MLP fandom joke where Apple Bloom teases Scootaloo for not being able to fly, sticking her with the "Scootaloo is a chicken" label[3]. The frozen face used in most edits is pulled from a season three episode where Scootaloo skips through frame with an odd expression[3].

The catchphrase itself comes from the Aqua Teen Hunger Force season three premiere "Video Ouija"[1]. In that episode, Frylock hires "Billy Witch Doctor" to resurrect Master Shake after Carl grinds him into pool stew, and Billy leads a séance chanting "Arise, Chicken, Arise" while smacking a chicken staff on the ground[2].

Platform: 4chan /b/ (thread bait) / MLP fandom (source frame)
Creator: Unknown
Date: 2012

Overview

Chickun is a 4chan image macro format built around photoshopped, edited, and face-swapped stills of Scootaloo, the pegasus filly from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic[1]. The pictures pair her wide-mouthed, buggy-eyed expression with the chant "Arise, Chickun," lifted from Aqua Teen Hunger Force[2].

The threads mostly ran on /b/ and adjacent boards, where the joke worked as both an inside gag for the brony crowd and as pointed spam aimed at the anti-brony camp[3]. The recognizable look is a single warped Scootaloo frame that gets stretched, tiled, and dropped into unrelated macros[4].

How It Spread

After 4chan tightened its rules and pushed pony content off /b/ into the dedicated /mlp/ board, some posters started dropping Scootaloo Chickun threads back on /b/ to bait moderators and pull reactions out of the anti-brony crowd[4]. A tripcode user going by "Smokey" was flagged in board discussions as one of the more persistent posters running the threads[4].

The tag stuck on image-hosting sites, with Derpibooru maintaining a dedicated Chickun pool for edits and remixes[5]. Urban Dictionary entries piled on with their own takes, from affectionate "fluffy creature" definitions to Scouse slang treating "chickun" as a pronunciation of chicken[6].

How to Use

A typical Chickun edit takes the wide-eyed Scootaloo frame and either face-swaps it onto another character or tiles it across a background, often captioned with "Arise Chickun" in the ritual-chant style from Aqua Teen Hunger Force[2]. On 4chan the format is commonly posted as an OP image to start a thread, with replies stacking more warped Scootaloo edits[4].

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Chickun?

Chickun is a 4chan image macro format using photoshopped Scootaloo faces from My Little Pony paired with the chant "Arise, Chickun"[3].

Where did Chickun come from?

The visual is from a season three My Little Pony scene and the fandom joke that Scootaloo is a chicken, while the chant is from the Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "Video Ouija"[1].

What does Chickun mean?

Chickun is a deliberate misspelling of chicken tied to Scootaloo, who Apple Bloom teases as a chicken because she cannot fly[3].

How do you use Chickun?

Edits typically face-swap the warped Scootaloo frame into unrelated images and caption them with the "Arise, Chickun" chant borrowed from Billy Witch Doctor's resurrection ritual[2].