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So basically i was going to make a post explaining eeby deeby, but then I was doing Meme Research and discovered that my previous claim that the elevator eeby deeby meme and the “your dick cold” eeby deeby meme are unrelated is actually false!

So, if you look up eeby deeby you will be taken to this Know Your Meme page, which may confuse you more, and seems completely unrelated. basically the eeby deeby meme documented here was someone editing a comic panel to make a joke about robot penises? the “eeby deeby” here is supposed to be like, robot noises or something.

EDIT: it turns out this is a comic of Buck Rogers, which had a TV show in the 70s. The robot here, Twiki, apparently makes an “eeby deeby” noise a lot (usually written out as “bidibidi”). I found a clip of this on youtube here. (thank you to @accumulus​ for this information!)

The current eeby deeby meme originated from this image of a weird elevator display:

So i was like “ok these things are unrelated it’s just that they happen to contain the same nonsense phrase”.

But then I tried to find the original post of the elevator image, so I googled “where the fuck is this thing taking me” and got this tweet from 2018:

This appears to have been its own meme, but I haven’t heard of it before today. Seeing as these photos are identical except for the text display, the eeby deeby image is an edit of the UwU elevator joke.

So I reverse image searched the eeby deeby elevator image: (sidenote: look at what happened when i did:)

And I got some weird results but I found an important result from imgur! Note: as of when I am making this post (Feb 6 2021), the eeby deeby meme only showed up on tumblr like 5 days ago.

 “MetaPathos… that sounds familiar…”:

MetaPathos is, as far as we know, the original poster of the “your dick cold” edit.

Ok that’s cool and all but what the fuck is the eeby deeby meme on tumblr?

Good question! I don’t really know how to find out where the jokes about eeby deeby started because tumblr’s search function sucks eggs, but a reblog of what appears to be the first time eeby deeby elevator was posted on tumblr (Feb 1 2021) that combines “you are going to brazil” and possibly the superhell joke with eeby deeby was posted on Feb 2 2021:

Seeing as the superhell joke is very popular (because it’s funny) and this gif has become associated with it (to the point where I mistakenly thought this was an actual clip from Supernatural), I think this may have contributed to the spread of eeby deeby and the establishment of “eeby deeby” as some sort of place. EDIT: In an earlier version of this post, I said that this was solely related to the superhell meme (due to my aforementioned mistake), but upon Further Research it’s most likely more closely related to “You Are Going To Brazil”. Shoutout to @can-you-maybe-chill’s tags for making me realize this wasn’t in fact the case.

There is also this post, which I recall as being the first time I saw eeby deeby outside of the original elevator post: