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h2. About
Valve, Add this please! is a phrase commonly used on ASCII Art featuring Facebook’s like button to spam Steam forums, particularly Steam Workshop [1] and Steam Greenlight [2].
Origin
‘Valve, Add this please!’ ASCII is created out of 5 unicode symbols including: Light Shade “░” – 0×2591, Dark Shade “▓” – 0×2593, Full Block “█” – 0×2588, Upper Half Block “▀” – 0×2580 and Lower Half Block “▄” – 0×2584. The picture was first used on Steam Greenlight’s 8BitMMO game’s forum, first posted on August 30, 2012 at 4:13pm by user Gregabeast as a simplier version without text on [3]. The phrase itself come from McPixel forum on August 30, 3:09pm. It was created by user Melonhead in form of ‘MCPIXEL, STEAMADD IT PLEASEAND IT SHOULD BE FREE TO PLAY!!1’ [4].
Precursor
In 2011, an ASCII focusing on the same like button became popular on Facebook as “Like ASCII” [5].
Spread
Both the phrase and the picture gained popularity on Steam forums. The sentence was reused at 3:42pm by Expand Dongle [6]. The ASCII was copied three times by BlueFox, first at 4:15pm and Vimy at 4:18pm [7][8]. From 2012 up to now, people created over 25 variantions of ‘Valve, Add this please!’ and wrote over 1 000 related comments.
Derative: Mega Ultra Epic
This ASCII is originating from Steam Workshop. It shortly after leaked out to Steam Greenlight, generally used in combination of ‘Mega Ultra’ and ‘Valve, Add this please! And give me one!’. However, it got bad reception from Team Fortress 2 and Dota 2 players [9][10].
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Notable Examples
Search Interest
External References
[2]Steam – Greenlight
[3]Steam – 8MitMMO:: Comments
[4]Steam – McPixel:: Comments
[5]fb-fun.de – coole Pinnwand ASCII Bilder / Posted on 1-19-2011
[6]Steam – Organ Trail: Director’s Cut:: Comments
[7]Steam – Towns:: Comments
[8]Steam – Gnomoria:: Comments
[9]Steam – What is up with these “SUPERMEGAULTRAEPIC” on the workshop ? / Posted on 10-19-2014
[10]Reddit – Why do people spam “mega ultra epic” under Workshop admissions? / Posted on 8-9-2014