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In the following years, the joke continued to flourish on video game-related forums and message boards such as Ars Technica^[7] and 4chan^[1][12], where it evolved into a photoshop meme that entails placing an exploitable image of Xbox or Xbox controllers over any oversized object in the base image.

Soon enough, XBox became synonymous with hugeness in general, as encapsulated in the grammatically incorrect phrase "Xbox is hueg." Between 2004 and 2005, at least two articles defining the phrase "lol xbox is huge" were submitted to Urban Dictionary.^[13]

On September 21st, 2005, Control + Alt + Del published a comic strip making fun of the console and the large controllers.

On July 30th, 2007, the meme was referenced in