Optimus Posted July 28, 2019 (edited) It might be silly question, but what is the origin of the OOF meme? In discussion of Doomers, I sometimes see people throwing an Oof, sometimes an OOF with Doom font, when there is a displeasure or something for example. Like "Oh, new Doom for the Switch but DRM?" and the other replies OOF! Now, I don't know when the meme started but I think I've found one of the doom sound fx as I was extracting them, ending with Oof. And it was I think the sound effect where the Doom guy pushes a wall (or was it when he takes damage? Don't remember). But I can't find the origin of the OOF meme and the Doom community. When I search "Doom OOF" on the internet I only get result about some Doom mod with Roblox death sound OOF. But is the origin of OOF from this roblox which I don't know what it is? Or is it from the original Doom sound effect name? Writting OOF as a repsonse on Doom community is a norm, but I don't know where it came from, no history? 2 Share this post Link to post
Johnny B. Getgoode (The Guy) Posted July 28, 2019 Pretty sure the Roblox "OOF" sound is what started it... 2 Share this post Link to post
Mystic 256 Posted July 28, 2019 11 minutes ago, Johnny B. Getgoode (The Guy) said: Pretty sure the Roblox "OOF" sound is what started it... I thought was the old minecraft damage sound that started it 1 Share this post Link to post
Johnny B. Getgoode (The Guy) Posted July 28, 2019 1 minute ago, Mystic 256 said: I thought was the old minecraft damage sound that started it Eh, maybe. I'm by no means a professor of memeology. :3 0 Share this post Link to post
DuckReconMajor Posted July 28, 2019 yeah KnowYourMeme and urban dictionary say it was roblox. But OOF has been an exclamation for a while I'm sure it came from many places. 3 Share this post Link to post
D4NUK1 Posted July 28, 2019 It's mostly the meme of the roblox death sound as something bad happening. 0 Share this post Link to post
Doominator2 Posted July 28, 2019 I thought it was the sound Doomguy made when he ran into a wall. 3 Share this post Link to post
D4NUK1 Posted July 28, 2019 51 minutes ago, Doominator2 said: I thought it was the sound Doomguy made when he ran into a wall. That's Uhm or Umh! 0 Share this post Link to post
The Nate Posted July 29, 2019 Apparently the Roblox death sound was first used in an earlier game called Messiah, released in 2000. The sound itself dates back to September 1999 with credit to Joey Kuras, although it is owned by Tommy Tallarico, owner of Messiah. https://venturebeat.com/2019/06/22/robloxs-famous-oof-death-sound-allegedly-came-from-a-tommy-tallarico-game/ 4 Share this post Link to post
