Cookies
From FSDB
Cookies was a fad on Fallout Studios. It involved pictures of (preferably chocolate chip) cookies that were posted repeatedly in a forum thread. Alternatively pictures of cookies were pasted into other images with the cookies replacing people's heads or some other feature in the image, or the cookies were used as some other nonsensical feature in a picture.
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Explanation
The cookies fad started when, on 19 June 2006, Centric posted a thread in Spammy Yummy Discussion named 'My brother is joining', to announce that his brother would be joining the forum. The first replier, Seregon, was not impressed and posted 'want a cookie now? :p'. The_Hunter then posted a picture of a chocolate chip cookie, after which General commented that he would prefer the image not to be posted anymore because he was hungry.
Several members then posted the same picture again in spite of the request, and hilarity ensued as gradually the amounts of cookies in the posts began to increase. Soon after, variations of the cookie picture appeared, such as the cookie monster, a cookie with a face and abnormally large front teeth, and a picture of General Juhziz with cookies for eyes and a speech balloon saying 'ZOMG I SEE COOKIEZ'.
It was then that Jordan appeared and showed off several models he had created with the cookie picture, including a motorcycle with cookies for wheels, and an oddly-designed flying machine which he dubbed the Cookie Flinging Object, or CFO for short. After he posted a screenshot of the Cookie Flinging Object shown as a unit in Zero Hour, proposals for other cookie-related units for Zero Hour soon followed. In the meantime the posts were interspersed with more pictures of cookies pasted into other images, including the All your base are belong to us intro.
Eventually the thread broadened into a discussion about various in-game units such as cookie tank armour, cookie cocktails, angry cookies and gamma cookies. Suggestions were also posted for several generals, whose tactics would involve cookies, soup, grills and other food-related articles. And soon people began to suggest various units for these generals, as well as making up lines for in-game speech these units could use.
Legacy
The thread itself was renamed to 'Cookies!!', and was pinned in Spammy Yummy Discussion. It remained there for considerable time, with members occasionally posting more silliness in the thread. Eventually the thread was unpinned and left there.
During the height of the craze, the forum's page title also read E-Studios Forums (Powered by the cookie general) for a while.
