On May 31st, 2012, YouTuber xX420KyShxX uploaded an MLG game montage titled 'GALAGA 420 SMOKE WEED 360 NO SCOPE,' featuring footage from the 1981 fixed shooter arcade game Galaga (shown below). On December 5th, 2011, YouTuber TopCoDReplays 100K Subs posted a montage of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 trick shots, which included four '360 no scope' kills. On October 26th, Urban Dictionary user dsaos submitted an entry for '360 no-scope.'. Even reaching beyond fans of the actual series, the infamous 'Naruto Run' is easily one of the most popular and recognized anime memes out there. In four years, the video received more than 7.6 million views and 18,000 comments. On September 22nd, 2010, YouTuber RocketJump uploaded a video by Freddie Wong titled 'Gun Size Matters' in which a man performs a 360 no scope shot (shown below, left).

In the first four years, the video gained over 2.1 million views and 7,300 comments. The phrase was popularized by streamer iShowSpeed around March 2023 after clips of him asking the question, often ironically to obviously fake content, began to go viral, inspiring people to use it in similar. On November 11th, 2009, YouTuber nomercysoldier0 uploaded a video titled 'MW2 Sick 360 No Scope Across Map,' featuring footage of a Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 match in which the player spins around and kills an opponent with an unzoomed sniper rifle (shown below). Chat Is This Real is a catchphrase referencing a question frequently asked by streamers to their viewers, aka 'chat,' if a story or piece of content that they're reacting to is real.

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