Citations:triforce

English citations of triforce

Noun: "a shape composed of three equilateral triangles arranged in such a manner that a fourth triangle of equal shape could be fit in between them"

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• 2009 July 17, 流星99. Run-Feed2News, “Google Removes Triforce From Logos”, in cn.edu.lang.english‎^[1] (Usenet):

  As it fits a good conspiracy, Google now removed the triforce from the logo doodles
  (I did not check for every logo, but it's gone for at least the two which I did check). I wonder why?

• 2010 October 1, Brian Bender, Farming Around the Country: An Organic Odyssey: A Year with WWOOF (World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms), NorLightPress (2010), →ISBN,page 43:

  Then someone else arranged the triangles into a larger triangle — a pinecone triforce. From that point, it took off. By day four, someone had constructed a labyrinth below the triforce, adorned with yellow flower petals, red berries, and colorful rocks gathered from the woods.

• 2011 September 1, Cole Stryker, Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4chan's Army Conquered the Web, The Overlook Press (2011), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  The only way to properly display the triforce is by using a complex set of Unicode characters.

Verb: "(Internet slang) to successfully post three Unicode triangles (▲) arranged in this configuration"

• 2011 April 28, David Thorne, The Internet is a Playground: Irreverent Correspondences of an Evil Online Genius, Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin (2011), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  All I could work out is that I am apparently a “newfag” and cannot “triforce” but am unsure as to why I would need to triforce in the first place. I asked some of the people on there for their advice regarding triforcing, but the only answer I seemed to get was "nigger."

• 2011 July 17, Michael S. Bernstein, Andrés Monroy-Hernández, Drew Harry, Paul André, Katrina Panovich, & Greg Vargas, "4chan and /b/: An Analysis of Anonymity and Ephemerality in a Large Online Community", Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, →ISBN, pages 50-57:

  Newcomers will be taunted by a challenge that "newfags can't triforce."

• 2011 September 1, Cole Stryker, Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4chan's Army Conquered the Web, The Overlook Press (2011), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  Oldfags will post the symbol along with "Newfags can't triforce."