One format of the Dick Butt joke is showing a popular character, like Captain Jack Sparrow or Luke Skywalker, beholding or presenting something, only to reveal a picture of Dick Butt. Into the 2010s, Dick Butt was popular a meme in the more ridiculous corners of the web. This led Gawker to hail Dick Butt as the next rickroll in a 2008 article, referencing the 2007 internet joke where people trick others into clicking links to Rick Astley’s song “Never Gonna Give You Up.” Sometimes people simply posted images of Dick Butt, but then others started randomly commenting Dick Butt on completely unrelated content. Dick Butt first took off as an obscure but viral meme in places like 4chan and deviantART. He didn’t let us down, as his answer was Dick Butt, a humanoid penis-butt with a penis-butt in his butt. I thought, What is the stupidest thing? And then I had my answer.” In a 2014 interview with The Daily Dot, Green said “the joke was that I wanted to honor trees for what they gave up. Green in 2006 for his webcomic Horribleville.