About
Gizoogle is a website that lets you translate almost everything on the internet into gangsta slang by replacing the text with ebonics.
History
The website was created in 2005 by John Beatty after being inspired by Brandon Yoders’ over-use of gangster slang on Istant Messanger.
In an interview[2], John said the following:
“Just to humor this one individual person I made the site in 2 days time. These little projects for fun would help me improve my knowledge of Regular Expression formulas and the PHP language. In doing so I learned how to make the code understand the use of consonants and vowels words and determine intelligently where to place alterations in the words and sentences. I’m really regretting scrapping that code after all these years now!”
Although later he claims that he also got inspired by Snoop’s TV show, Doggy Fizzle Televizzle[1], which aired on MTV in 2002 and 2003.
Popularity
Despite not being popular at first, and not being available due to crashes until 2011, Gizoogle’s popularity grew in 2013 as Trollpasta Wiki users started using the translator to create gangsta-fied versions of popular creepypastas, such as Smile.jpg, 1999, Jeff the Killer and more.
Search Interest
[2]Gizoogle 2.0 – Gizoogle’s original creator shares insight on recent popularity, Gizoogle.com.
[1]Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – Doggy Fizzle Televizzle