Toddposting

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Toddposting refers to a series of shitposting featuring the game developer Todd Howard trying to advertise Bethesda Softworks' franchises, like The Elder Scrolls and Fallout, in a mockingly blunt and non-sneaky way through photoshopped images of Howard.

Origin

Toddposting is believed to have started in 4chan's video game board /v/ during the summer of 2015, after Bethesda's E3 conference where details about Fallout 4 were announced. The earliest archived reference to Toddposting comes from a /vg/ Fallout thread on July 10th, 2015.^[1]

iew Same Google iodb SauceNAOHunk.jpg. 141KIB, 703x695 Anonymous Fri 10 Jul 2015 11:50:45 No.109026179 >>109024238 lfucking love Toddposting. Report He keeps telling you lies, and you keep believing him THE MAN EVERYONE TALKS ABOUT Businessman Mastermind Heartbreaker Womanizer Powerdignitary C.E.O. of your ass Dat hair Dem eyes An all Dat smirk afound alpha stud Dat chin He's got that"Wanna f---?"face on. Can you pull it without looking like a f-----? SUBMIT THY FLESH UREANo, you can't. But Todd can.Because he knows stuff.

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Toddposting began taking off in the summer of 2015. A photoshopped image of Howard was posted to Imgur on July 15th (shown below, left). An August 15th, 2015 post on /v/ portrayed Howard as a man scamming a sickness in order to get people to preorder Fallout 4 (shown below, right).

File (hide): 1441075861335 jpg (180.32 KB, 1000x00, 100:99, 144107486905711.ipa) Anonymous 08/31/15 (Mon) 21:51:01 ID: 57482e № 5802637 Reply! Match Thread Cough* H-hello friends... "Cough ..If you could pre-order just a little more copies of Fallout 4 . Cough Just a little bit more and I can pay for the cancer treatment... 9 posts and 3 image replies omitted. Click to expand

Toddposting continued throughout the following several years and was particularly emboldened by the multiple releases of Skyrim on multiple platforms (examples shown below). A subreddit for the trend has 150 subscribers.^[3]

What if You Could Climb That Mountain.. What if You Could Do That Again for $69.99? NINTENDO SWITC The Glder Scrolls V SKY SPECIAL EDITIO N 17+ da BUY MY GAME CHRISTOPHER WALKEN KATE BECKINSALE

"I hope you're ready to experience Skyrim like you never have before!" "l thought you said we were getting new games?" "Oh ho, no, I said new "names"! For all these great Skyrim rereleases !" SKYRIM SKARIM S K

Additionally, the trend has been parodied in various YouTube videos. For example, a "/v/ The Musical" parody uploaded by vodkaowl on October 6th, 2016, gained over 68,000 views (shown below, left). A parody uploaded by halflife2man on July 14th, 2017 gained over 8,600 views (shown below, right).