America: Fuck Yeah!

About

“America: Fuck Yeah!” is a multi-purpose expression that can be used as an authentic display of strong approval or an ironic response to extreme or unwarranted patriotism toward the United States of America. The phrase rose to fame after being quoted in the 2004 action comedy film Team America: World Police.

Origin

The phrase originated in the satirical political action film Team America: World Police, written by South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, released on October 14th, 2004. The movie contained a song titled “America: Fuck Yeah!”, with lyrics portraying a jingoistic-style of American patriotism.

America, FUCKYEAH!
Coming again, to save the mother fucking day yeah,
America, FUCKYEAH!
Freedom is the only way yeah,
Terrorist your game is through cause now you have to answer too,
America, FUCKYEAH!
So lick my butt, and suck on my balls,
America, FUCKYEAH!
What you going to do when we come for you now,
it’s the dream that we all share; it’s the hope for tomorrow

Spread

The first Urban Dictionary^[1] definition was submitted by user Jack Mehoff on November 9th, 2004, which referenced the Team America: World Police theme song. On January 17th, 2005, Newgrounds^[4] user Fiberoptic-Ninja submitted a flash movie titled “America Fuck Yeah”, which featured the original Team America song accompanied by a slideshow of relevant images.

On February 25th, 2006, the “America Fuck Yeah” Flickr^[5] group was created, where members submitted photos of extreme patriotism and “jingoistic craziness.” On July 4th, 2007, the Tonegents^[6] blog published a post titled “America, Fuck Yeah”, which highlighted the Get a Brain Morans photograph.

On February 9th, 2008, Urban Dictionary^[2] user My Name submitted another definition for the phrase, describing the phrase as an indictment of American military operations.

America Fuck Yeah
1) Theme song of “Team America: World Police”
2) A great phrase to sarcastically add after any statement promoting unnecessary American interventionism.
1) Comin’ again to save the motherfuckin’ day yeah!
2) Ann Coulter: “We should invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity.”
Rational People: “America Fuck Yeah!”^[1]

On September 11th, 2008, the music blog PersonaDonDada^[7] published a post titled “Top 5: Blindly patriotic songs about America”, which included the Team America: World Police song as number four on the list. On October 26th, 2009, FunnyJunk user LaResistance submitted a demotivational poster of a strikingly small escalator with the caption “America: Fuck Yeah!” (shown below, left). On October 30th, 2011, Redditor postmixlemonade submitted a post titled “America, fuck yeah!” to the /r/pics^[3] subreddit, which featured a photograph of a deep fried United States dollar bill (shown below, right).

On May 1st, 2011, after the White House announced that Osama bin Laden had been killed by US troops, a thread was stickied in 4chan’s /b/ board with four american flags and the words “MISSIONACCOMPLISHED” overlaid accompanied by the audio track of “America: Fuck Yeah” playing in the background.

Notable Examples

In image macros, the phrase is often used to either show strong approval of American policies and ideals, or alternatively, to parody extreme American patriotism and perceived American stereotypes. Initially, the phrase was most commonly used in demotivational poster captions.

Search Interest

Search query volume for the keywords “america fuck yeah” rose significantly in October of 2004, the same month Team America: World Police was released.

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