Memebridge’s Amatey Doku game takes banter to the next level
The most rogue personality cult since Richard Dawkins took another sensational twist this week with the launch of ‘Amatey. The Game’
When he was elected CUSU President a year ago by just one 10th of the Cambridge student body, the standard response was “Amatey Dok-who?” Twelve months on, the Students’ Union Commander-in-Chief and everybody’s favourite Facebook friend has developed a curious cult following. Promoting a low-key, piecemeal kind of politics that warrants the nickname Reality Doku, smiley Amatey is not someone you would expect to be the first port of call for internet banter at Cambridge.
But then, the meme supremo themselves, Memebridge, weighed in… The Amatey hullabaloo began with a photograph entitled ‘SuDoku’. There has since been such a bountiful stream of memes that your humble reporter could not track it down, but you get the drift.
Now, the hilarity has reached a whole new dimension with the unveiling of Memebridge’s online game, ‘How Amatey Are You Anyway?’ A simultaneous parody of a) Amatey Doku, b) ‘How Old Are You Anyway?’, the theme for this year's Clare College’s May Ball, which features a similar game on its website, and c) the National Student Survey, which appears in the Memebridge edition, the application challenges users to click on as many Amatey balloons as possible within 60 seconds.
Memebridge posted a link to the game on its Facebook page yesterday, with the caption: “Got a treat for you tonight thanks to the wonderful work of David, enjoy [heart emoji].” In a status, the CUSU President wrote: “Words fail me.” Right. Okie Doku…
The wildly-addictive game has received a positive response from the procrastinators of Cambridge. “Legit the best thing to have come from the Internet,” gushed one on Facebook. Another online commenter screamed: “People have scores of over 300? My God we have too much time on our hands.”
That, or CompSci students are too good at exploiting bugs. The Clare May Ball committee has also chimed in, describing the game as “the greatest gift to mankind”. What next? Amatey Haiku? (Ha, no)
