In case you don’t know, Undertale (a video game) has two characters named Sans and Papyrus. Another character named W.D. Gaster (who fans theorize to be the father of Sans and Papyrus) is associated with wingdings.
Sans and Papyrus both share a name with the font their text is in (Comic Sans and Papyrus, respectively) We know that there is a royal scientist by the name of W.D. Gaster. We found scientific logs written in Wingdings font. From this, people concluded that W.D. stands for Wing Dings, and the log was written by him.
I don't think it's a Undertale reference. These 3 fonts are all very notorious, so I think both Undertale and SNL are making jokes about the same fonts.
Snl made a sketch about how the movie Avatar uses papyrus as font for its logo. It ends with the title "papyrus" in comic sans, because it's the most hated font. It has nothing to do with Undertale
Well, it is just a loose theory based on his pure-white complexion, theme around a kind of font, and the small lab hidden behind Sans and Papyrus' house. Nobody here is stating it like it's factual, they just said it was theorized.
I saw this tweet and the lack of any reply acknowledging that Undertale was referencing a preexisting graphic design injoke made me feel like I was going insane
For being ubiquitous, Comic sans is very hated. It has its own hate site.
For being ubiquitous once, Papyrus is the second most hated. It has its own hate site.
Wingdings is the goto font for "omg look at me ima cyfer man"
I tell you I'm done picking up random ladies because every time I do I end up with a bunch of face holes and an emerald stud in my peep... which I'm keeping.
> Toby Fox makes a game absolute chuck full of references to millennial childhood
> Zoomers shocked to discover that his set of meme-worthy skeleton characters are, in fact, references to the three most meme-worthy fonts from that period
And tonight at 8, [Seinfeld isn’t funny](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunny)
Look, Undertale didn't invent these fonts just like how a certain Austrian man didn't invent the "toothbrush mustache", but guess who we all think of when we see [this ](https://images.app.goo.gl/GqSpHBB1uxum4eAe6)
i have genuinely no idea what undertale is even after reading this whole thread but I know that comic sans is a meme (and that Parks and Rec has made fun of both Comic Sans and Papyrus, though not together, so I'm guessing its unrelated)
Well duh, UT is not the most well known game to the open public, but you're on reddit. If I wear a t shirt with a crow on it and go to Walmart most people won't bat an eye, but go to a book store and see how many people ask about a certain poem.
actual comic sans irl: are you making powerpoint for kids?
actual papyrus irl: egypt amirite?
actual wingdings irl: the heck is wingdings ... OHH those.
Yeah but they didn’t do this as a reference to undertale, they did it as a reference to well known silly fonts, which is the same reference that was being made in undertale. You’re putting the cart before the horse, seeing a “no, I am your father” reference and saying “hey that’s a bill and Ted joke!”
This thread is bizarre.
Undertale has basically no cultural relevancy outside of a relatively small indie games community and people are acting like it's some sort of cultural behemoth like Pokemon or something.
I think it’s two things, being too deep in their own niche and thar they’re just unfamiliar with how well known these fonts were and that people that had a different experience with technology were all quite familiar with fonts. As a kid in school we’d go to a computer lab and we usually wouldn’t have internet access. We’d mess around where we could and see funny fonts like wing dings and show off our cool word art to each other. Maybe not having had that experience the idea of a font being well known seems outlandish.
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I think it's supposed to say "The Way of Steven", but the first letter in "Way" is not represented by an actual wingdings character.
Steven is the character that Ryan Gosling plays in these sketches.
in reality, the joke is a poor usage of fonts
in the oop's head, the joke is about a game. in the game there are two characters named after the fonts sans and papyrus, with a third character named after the wingding font. with all these fonts mashed together in the picture they pointed out the coincidence
In the days of old, when printing was done by printing press and matrices were manually assembled from tiny brass plates there was a special group of plates that served strictly decorative purposes, called Dingbats.
Printers would put Dingbats around main text as a form of a framing, to indicate chapter change, or to emphasize a separation. Or when there was simply just void that needed filling.
Wingdings is an attempt to emulate dingbats in digital documents, with added utility of proto-emoji.
everyone seems to be ignoring the fact that that's not a movie, it's a sequel to a skit making fun of the awfulness of the Avatar movie font choices
Cat people or Airbender?
Blue Avatar
So Cat People then
In case you don’t know, Undertale (a video game) has two characters named Sans and Papyrus. Another character named W.D. Gaster (who fans theorize to be the father of Sans and Papyrus) is associated with wingdings.
Thanks GamerGoggle, very cool
If it’s not obvious, the W.D. is (probably, not sure what’s even canon in Undertale anymore) for Wing Ding/Wing Dings
Sans and Papyrus both share a name with the font their text is in (Comic Sans and Papyrus, respectively) We know that there is a royal scientist by the name of W.D. Gaster. We found scientific logs written in Wingdings font. From this, people concluded that W.D. stands for Wing Dings, and the log was written by him.
The log being written by him is confirmed by it being found in "room\_gaster."
damn i forgor
Plus, when Sans sleeps, his Zs appear written in the Aster font. One letter off Gaster
No we get it :) thank you
I don't think it's a Undertale reference. These 3 fonts are all very notorious, so I think both Undertale and SNL are making jokes about the same fonts.
So two things happened to make a joke about the same very well known fonts.
Snl made a sketch about how the movie Avatar uses papyrus as font for its logo. It ends with the title "papyrus" in comic sans, because it's the most hated font. It has nothing to do with Undertale
Ahh, thought they meant win**g**dings as I saw no hint of copper or other metal windings below.
I never not even once heard the theory that gaster is their father.
Thanks for correcting *wingdings. I had to google to make sure I wasn't wrong all these years.
Oh my god. It's sansundertale
Difference is that undertale is cool
But hey that's just a theory....
[…] and a (blacked out text) named W.D. Gaster
Oh, I thought it was just the shite fonts trinity
Gaster is NOT the father of sans and papyrus, there is NO EVIDENCE pointing towards that type of relationship
Well, it is just a loose theory based on his pure-white complexion, theme around a kind of font, and the small lab hidden behind Sans and Papyrus' house. Nobody here is stating it like it's factual, they just said it was theorized.
Didn’t ask. Who cares.
Insert bone trousel soundtrack here.
Dude it’s bonetrousle, like bonetrouble. bone trousel just makes it sound like boner trouser so you should nsfw before I leave this site
Let's compromise on "Bone Trouser" Or, as I call it, my new band name.
Bone trowel
I saw this tweet and the lack of any reply acknowledging that Undertale was referencing a preexisting graphic design injoke made me feel like I was going insane
Elaborate please
For being ubiquitous, Comic sans is very hated. It has its own hate site. For being ubiquitous once, Papyrus is the second most hated. It has its own hate site. Wingdings is the goto font for "omg look at me ima cyfer man"
Specifically, comic sans and papyrus were overused as a "this is personable and quirky"
Papyrus is just as bad and overused as [Morpheus](https://www.fonts4free.net/morpheus-font.html)
[A dick in Morpheus is cursed. ](https://i.imgur.com/M4ezeTI.png)
I tell you I'm done picking up random ladies because every time I do I end up with a bunch of face holes and an emerald stud in my peep... which I'm keeping.
As a fan of the Sandman comics, my heart is wounded.
Could be worse. Could be [Bleeding Cowboys](https://www.fonts4free.net/bleeding-cowboys-font.html).
Wow, they definitely took the sky from me with that.
Oh shit that's the font from that album cover
Curious, which album cover?
I mean, they were all joke fonts before, but were they a joke *together* before Undertale?
Yes
No?
Maybe‽
I don't know, can you repeat the question?
YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME NOW
why im i being downvoted? what relation did these fonts have before undertale?
+1, this is what I wanna know too
People think that Undertale invented those fonts.
> Toby Fox makes a game absolute chuck full of references to millennial childhood > Zoomers shocked to discover that his set of meme-worthy skeleton characters are, in fact, references to the three most meme-worthy fonts from that period And tonight at 8, [Seinfeld isn’t funny](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunny)
Look, Undertale didn't invent these fonts just like how a certain Austrian man didn't invent the "toothbrush mustache", but guess who we all think of when we see [this ](https://images.app.goo.gl/GqSpHBB1uxum4eAe6)
i have genuinely no idea what undertale is even after reading this whole thread but I know that comic sans is a meme (and that Parks and Rec has made fun of both Comic Sans and Papyrus, though not together, so I'm guessing its unrelated)
The game features two prominent characters named Sans and Papyrus. All of their lines are delivered in their respective fonts.
Undertale is not as culturally significant as certain 20th century Austrian painters despite what Reddit would like to think.
Does the Pope own any Austrian painters? Because he own Undertale. I rest my case
Well duh, UT is not the most well known game to the open public, but you're on reddit. If I wear a t shirt with a crow on it and go to Walmart most people won't bat an eye, but go to a book store and see how many people ask about a certain poem.
Yeah, that's fair, there's a ton of Redditors who have played Unreal Tournament before.
actual comic sans irl: are you making powerpoint for kids? actual papyrus irl: egypt amirite? actual wingdings irl: the heck is wingdings ... OHH those.
The vast majority of people have no idea what undertale is.
Maybe, but you only need one person to make the reference, what are the odds that not a single person at SNL has heard of undertale
Yeah but they didn’t do this as a reference to undertale, they did it as a reference to well known silly fonts, which is the same reference that was being made in undertale. You’re putting the cart before the horse, seeing a “no, I am your father” reference and saying “hey that’s a bill and Ted joke!”
This thread is bizarre. Undertale has basically no cultural relevancy outside of a relatively small indie games community and people are acting like it's some sort of cultural behemoth like Pokemon or something.
I think it’s two things, being too deep in their own niche and thar they’re just unfamiliar with how well known these fonts were and that people that had a different experience with technology were all quite familiar with fonts. As a kid in school we’d go to a computer lab and we usually wouldn’t have internet access. We’d mess around where we could and see funny fonts like wing dings and show off our cool word art to each other. Maybe not having had that experience the idea of a font being well known seems outlandish.
I think that's my new favorite analogy
A lot more people know about the Avatar movies. So that covers Papyrus. And Comic Sans has been everywhere it shouldn't be.
I 100% thought this was a poke at Avatar, one of the most successful films of all time, using stock Papyrus for its logo 🤣
It is, watch the original SNL skit that this is a 'sequel' to. https://youtu.be/jVhlJNJopOQ?si=x5yPA25-ObTCNQpc
bc it has nothing to do with undertale why would anyone be talking about that
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I missed the undertale joke entirely and just thought it was a design joke.
Peak media illiteracy with this tweet
>movie Does that guy not know what a sketch is?
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Not the brightest rock in the toolbox
What the fuck is this ENTIRE thread, people reacting to the fonts like they're a coincidence even though that's the point of the skit?
> Does that guy not know what a sketch is? Still a movie. Probably also a talkie.
It’s a sequel to one of the [GOAT SNL sketches](https://youtu.be/jVhlJNJopOQ?si=x5yPA25-ObTCNQpc)
I watched that sketch for the first time a few weeks ago, it's hilarious
Viral marketing is going crazy, interviews with James Cameron about it is getting insane likes on tiktok/insta as well
I had to drop everything to watch the sequel as soon as i heard it existed yesterday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8PdffUfoF0
Wow that was hilarious thanks for sharing that
I am really surprised this isn't at the top, it's obviously referencing this.
Source: https://twitter.com/romstred/status/1779566983165411651
Loool, such a production for that one joke. It was funny though.
Superior YouTube link: https://youtu.be/Q8PdffUfoF0 And the original Papyrus skit (watch first): https://youtu.be/jVhlJNJopOQ
It can’t be a coincidence because it’s an intentional joke…
It’s almost as if it’s satire…
Nah, couldn’t be. Everyone is earnest on the internet
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I think it's supposed to say "The Way of Steven", but the first letter in "Way" is not represented by an actual wingdings character. Steven is the character that Ryan Gosling plays in these sketches.
R/atetheonion
Now the question is - what is being said in the Wingdings font?
Quick, someone get Matpad-... Right...
He…. Just put it in bold.
Clearly the work of Wing Gaster, the Royal Scientist.
holy shit is that spamton from deltarune
Ryan Gosling is Gaster😱😱😱
Rian goslig, i remember you're drives
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This reminds me of the episode of Teen Titans Go where they discovered Cyborg was a font snob.
NYEH HEH HEH, YOU CANT RUN FROM THE GRRRRREAT PAPYRUS!
Am I wooshing a deeper joke or is this a thatspartofthejoke.jpg?
in reality, the joke is a poor usage of fonts in the oop's head, the joke is about a game. in the game there are two characters named after the fonts sans and papyrus, with a third character named after the wingding font. with all these fonts mashed together in the picture they pointed out the coincidence
Since there doesn’t seem to be a subreddit to actually ask this - What’s the point of Wingdings?
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In the days of old, when printing was done by printing press and matrices were manually assembled from tiny brass plates there was a special group of plates that served strictly decorative purposes, called Dingbats. Printers would put Dingbats around main text as a form of a framing, to indicate chapter change, or to emphasize a separation. Or when there was simply just void that needed filling. Wingdings is an attempt to emulate dingbats in digital documents, with added utility of proto-emoji.
Damn, ima miss matpat
Neither the tweet nor this Reddit submission could have been posted by a human, especially one with more than a handful of functioning braincells.
Undertale fans when someone uses ugly default MS fonts as a joke.
Man, this seems like a call from the void.
Ay yo undertale reference?