Chuck Norris facts
This is something people said. There is no recording of it to show.
2005·Early YouTube
One-line absurd claims about the strength of the actor Chuck Norris.
At a glanceThe facts
- Spread in
- 2005
- Format
- Phrase
- Where it started
- The Something Awful forums, early in 2005
- Made by
- Ian Spector, who built the online generators, is credited as their author
- Origin
- Not an upload originally
- Available
- Not held by ViralWorld
TimelineIn order
- Made
The jokes appear on Something Awful, at first about Vin Diesel. A few months later they are about Norris.1
- Later
Norris sues the publisher of a book of them. He drops the case the next year.1
- Mainstream
An official book of the facts is published, co-written and endorsed by Norris.1
What people misrememberSet straight
Commonly remembered asThey were always about Chuck Norris.
ActuallyThey began as Vin Diesel facts.1
Why it is here: copied, redrawn and reused until the original stopped mattering · it got out of its own corner of the internet fast
This is something people said, rather than a single upload.
Where it came fromWhat we know
There is no original upload to identify: this did not begin as one. There is no copy of it here either — what it was, when it appeared and what people called it is what this page can tell you.
Nothing here is claimed to be the first publication of this Moment, because the first publication was not an upload. This is something people said, rather than a single upload.
Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.
What this was built on, each one a record of its own.
- Taken from Something AwfulPhenomenon · 2001
The jokes first appeared on the Something Awful forums early in 2005.
More from 2005You were there
SourcesWhat was read
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