Mouth asset
The Mouth asset originated from the Battle for Dream Island Adobe Animate assets created back in 2010 before evolving to what it is now, a meme in the Object Show Community. It has become a trend and a staple of comedy due to its usage
Name[edit | edit source]
The mouth asset is mostly called "Mouth". Search engine results claim that the Mouth, without knowing the origin, calls it either Cartoon Mouth or Clipart mouth. The file for the mouth was called Open Mouth 4 (A) as according to the Battle for Dream Island Fandom wiki. The Mouth asset name was first used in a popular way by HyperCrystal.[1]
Appearance[edit | edit source]
Origin[edit | edit source]
Prototypes of the Mouth asset originated between 2007 and 2008 with the production of the "I Can Make a Difference! "school project, by Michael Huang. The Mouth's earliest version, being the Open Mouth 4 (A), first appeared in "Take the Plunge".
Use[edit | edit source]
The original usage of the Mouth was to represent happiness or screaming of object show characters, mainly BFDI ones.
Most likely, when the show became open-source in 2012, people flocked and published it through free PNG image websites to be used. This is possibly why there are so many places like Roblox games and real life locations or random YouTube videos such as Danno Cal Drawings' short on breathing wrong.[2] Roblox games are common to have the Mouth asset, especially in "Cart Ride into" genre-styled games, which are repetitive.
Sadly, channels like LankyBox, had used the Mouth assets inappropriately to their clickbaity and terribly addictive content, sometimes even rotating vertically to appear (similar to the first two episodes of Inanimate Insanity), looking very ugly.
