The Navy Seal copypasta, also sometimes known as Gorilla Warfare due to a misspelling of ' guerrilla warfare' in its contents, is an aggressive but humorous attack paragraph supposedly written by an extremely well-trained member of the United States Navy SEALs (hence its name) to an unidentified 'kiddo', ostensibly whoever the copypasta is directed to. Usage of the word can be traced back to an anonymous 4chan thread from 2006, and Merriam-Webster record it appearing on Usenet and Urban Dictionary for the first time that year. The term copypasta is derived from the computer interface term ' copy and paste', the act of selecting a piece of text and copying it elsewhere. Copypasta containing controversial ideas or lengthy rants are often posted for humorous purposes, to provoke reactions from those unaware that the posted text is a meme. Copied and pasted text across the InternetĪ copypasta is a block of text copied and pasted to the internet and social media.
