00:00Is Robophobia on the rise?
00:03I ain't gonna let no Clanker take a drink from my fountain.
00:07AI haters are going viral for cursing out robots with the term Clanker,
00:11an insult that comes directly from Star Wars.
00:13Clanker was coined in the 2005 video game Star Wars, Republic Commando,
00:17where the character Delta-07 can be heard yelling,
00:19Lousy Clanker.
00:21The term became a joke in the Star Wars fandom and started inspiring memes in 2013.
00:25Then, in 2018, the Prequel Memes subreddit turned it into one of their most popular memes.
00:31Prequel Memes helped popularize the term's ironic use as a slur,
00:35inspiring countless memes using it in that context.
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