On September 8th, 2007, Urban Dictionary user Michaels V posted a definition of 'trap' (shown below).Ī man who dresses like a woman and is somewhat feminine in appearance. According to user coleopterist on the website Stack Exchange, the first trap character comes from Osamu Tezuka's 1949 manga, Metropolis features the first male-to-female 'trap' character.
Beginning in 2004, the Admiral Ackbar quote spawned hundreds of parody sites featuring the soundbite of Admiral Ackbar’s quote on YTMND, with the most notable instance uploaded by user MultiKoopa on June 2nd, 2005, which has garnered more than 313,000 views (as of April 2016).Īround the same time, shortly after the launch of the imageboard community 4chan, the phrase became closely associated with traps, a slang term for a photograph of a model or illustration of an anime character wherein the gender of the subject seems to be ambiguous or androgynous in appearance.Ĥchan users, in addition to creating the internet theme day 'Trap Thursday,' described androgynous anime characters as 'traps,' a long tradition within anime and manga.
