O RLY?

Taking a break today from suspicious looking games, it’s time for another meme.
PROTIP: It’s an owl!

YA RLY!

Sometimes called ORLY owl, this meme had the same origin from several other memes: the SomethingAwful.com forums.

Similar to Lolcats, O RLY? is also an image macro, a image with superimposed text.

This meme can be used in several situations, but mainly to display a lack of surprize.
For instance, when someone states something obvious, or that is obviously a lie.
Also, as a way to ignore something that has been said, usually people offending or ranting, or texts too long or too boring to read.

“O RLY?” is a corruption of “Oh, really?”.
It became so famous with lots of people posting on forums that eventually, came a reply:

“YA RLY!” is a corruption of “Yes, really!”.

Like most memes, this one also deserved some different versions:

Quite Rly:

Cosplay:

O LOLI:

Scarf (???)

And finally, the reply to the reply: NO WAI!!

There’s also a mix with another meme which I already posted on this very blog.
The Dramatic Prairie Dog:

If you wanna see some more different versions, point your browser to hjo3.net. RLY