User blog:The CookieRunner/October 2016 - 6th Issue

Issue #6 - The Internet Special

Published 18 October 2016

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{| style="padding:12px; margin:auto; border:2px solid #723FAD; background-color:#D5CEFB; " cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3";"valign="middle"; width="100%"} == All About Cookie Run Memes ==
 * By T And J Kids.

What's the 21st century to be without parodies of viral trends spreading around the Internet? There are millions of them within the Internet, some funny, some surprising. Even Cookie Run is involved with memes. They are the foundation of the Cookie Run fandom, which the well-known fans being the most knowledgeable about memes.

There is no major meme (like Pen Pineapple Apple Pen) related to Cookie Run. Rather, there are existing memes with Cookie Run added to it. Most of them involve a screenshot of a funny incident in the game with a caption added to it, or an image macro with Cookie Run screenshots as the main image. Even the photo edits that I made are considered memes.

Do You Know Where to Find These Memes?
I'm glad you asked. The Cookie Run fandom on Tumblr and Twitter are the hub of Cookie Run memes. However, I'll be using Tumblr most of the time. Here are some examples of the fandom applying Cookie Run to memes.


 * The Arthur clenched fist meme, but with Roll Cake Cookie instead.
 * A remake of the Wonder Drug Miracle Medicine meme with Alchemist and Vampire Cookie.
 * The Do It For Her meme, but with Vampire Cookie involved. A similar post was made with Pink Choco Cookie a year ago.
 * The Tag Yourself meme featuring Cookies.
 * "Who Are You?" says Ovenbreak. "I'm you but stronger," says LINE Cookie Run. Same for the old and new Banana Cookie.
 * That Cookie Run as Spongebob meme. Another version is made here.
 * And many more!

Here are some examples of memes that I have created. Most of them are image macros.


 * The Baby Steven meme. With Cookies involved of course.

Memes are so popular that the official Cookie Run Facebook page had once hosted a meme contest with merchandise as the prizes. However, since the Facebook page is now discontinued, there is no solid proof that a meme contest has existed. However, that event is still fresh in my memory, so I'll explain everything here.


 * 1st place: a picture of Vampire Cookie is accompanied with a caption saying "Wine? Wine not."
 * 2nd place: Angel Cookie and Devil Cookie replace Buzz Lightyear and Woody respectively. I forgot what the caption was though.
 * 3rd place: there are two winners in this position.
 * Muay Thai Cookie replaces the Computer Kid in this image macro, and the caption is "Hit any key to continue."
 * Nyan Fluffy Cheese Cat! Cheesecake Cookie makes a cameo appearance.

OK, Got It.

Got it? Good. This is one of the many ways that you can get along with the Cookie Run fandom, with the better your understanding of memes and jokes, the better you reputation in the fandom may be. I don't know actually, but I hope you will understand more about these funny images that circulate around the Cookie Run fandom on the Internet.
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{| style="padding:12px; margin:auto; border:2px solid #723FAD; background-color:#D5CEFB; " cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3";"valign="middle"; width="100%"} == The Benefits of Sprite Sheets (and in HD!) ==
 * By T And J Kids.

You may notice that, here in the Cookie Run Wiki, we upload the sprite sheets of every single Cookie and Pet. Before September 2015, I did not understand what were the sprite sheets for and how they can be used. After that month, I finally understood some various purposes of sprite sheets, besides just laying down every single motion of the Cookie on a .png file.

What Are Sprite Sheets?
The sprite sheets are .png files of every single movement the Cookie or Pet makes in the game. Using that file as well as a .plist code file, the Cookie or Pet can then come to life.

Sprite sheets are very important to the game. If there is a bug regarding the visual game play, the misalignment of sprite sheets and/or miscoding of the code files are to blame. If a sprite sheet is missing, it may not appear in-game. Therefore, any of these bugs will end up with the game not working properly.

What Are the Benefits of It?
Aside from setting the structure of the game, there are other benefits of having them outside of the game. These include sprite edits, photo edits, reference guides, and, to a lesser extent, sprite sheet animations.

Make Sprite Edits Out of Them

This the most popular way of using sprite sheets at the moment. People gather some Cookie sprite sheets to create edits that mostly symbolize their relationship towards each other. In other words, sprite edits are used to emphasize certain "ships." The cover photo of this issue is an example of a sprite edit.

Some complex sprite edits also include the background taken from the episode articles here in the wiki. Other issues include these kinds of sprite edits. The sprite edit can also further be more complex using effects from Photoshop.

I have created some of these, but I am not sure whether I still have them or not. Maybe I should check afterwards...

If you are interested in making a sprite edit, Tumblr user nyasshole has created a very informal tutorial on sprite edits here.

Make Photo Edits Out of Them

This one of the most common ways I use sprite sheets. Most people would A more complex version is using the Cookie's sprite sheet and placing that on top of someone else's face, which I normally refer to as "face edits."

My photo edits are not that popular, but they will also not mean a thing if you have not/are not a fan of the original source of the screencap. Some of the photo edits that I am most proud of are one of the most complicated to execute include the following:


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