copypasta
English
Etymology
Blend of copy, paste, and pasta
Pronunciation
Noun
copypasta (plural copypastas)
- (Internet slang) A block of text which has been copied and pasted from somewhere else.
- 2008 January 6, Cory Albrecht, “Re: A treatise on how one willfully becomes an atheist”, talk.origins, Usenet:
- On the other paw, his further responses are generally rehashings (though not copypastas) of his original screed.
- 2009 March 4, "Quaoar", “Re: ARS is dead. Long live the trolls!”, alt.religion.scientology, Usenet:
- Almost everything posted on ARS [alt.religion.scientology] is copypasta from the original posted sources, i.e., web forums.
- 2009 April 27, R. Hill, “St. Petersburg Times' _Man behind the religion_ 'copypasta' serves David Miscavige's agenda”, alt.religion.scientology, Usenet:
- It's essentially a (sort of) copypasta of *only the first page* of an article published in the St. Petersburg Times […]
- 2010 November 12, “Bored at Work? Try Creepypasta, or Web Scares”, The New York Times:
- Mike Rugnetta […] explained that creepypasta derives from a term called "copypasta," which described any piece of text that was endlessly "copy-pasted" across the Internet.
- 2008 January 6, Cory Albrecht, “Re: A treatise on how one willfully becomes an atheist”, talk.origins, Usenet:
Verb
copypasta (third-person singular simple present copypastas, present participle copypastaing, simple past and past participle copypastaed)
- (Internet slang) To copy and paste data from one website to another, usually text.
- 2008 March 3, Rudy Canoza, “Re: Meat is a prominent part of chimpanzee diet; pre-human hominids ate meat for 2.25 million years (biologically adapted to meat)”, alt.food.vegan, Usenet:
- You didn't read the paper. You dully copypastaed the abstract. The abstract is not the paper.
- 2009 September 7, "Voltaire's Child", “Re: Assuming it is all true..”, alt.religion.scientology, Usenet:
- He probably meant what Bob Minton used to talk about in the post he used to copypasta and repost all the time […]
- 2008 March 3, Rudy Canoza, “Re: Meat is a prominent part of chimpanzee diet; pre-human hominids ate meat for 2.25 million years (biologically adapted to meat)”, alt.food.vegan, Usenet: