A Statue of the Forums : The Return

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Nineball is a reference to “⑨: Idiot”, Cirno’s label in the manual of the game which she first appeared in[1]. Using a nineball instead of a nine is therefore an internet-wide tradition originating from the Touhou community[2].

  1. Touhou: Embodiment of Scarlet Devil ↩︎

  2. This community is also the source of a large quantity of memes commonly seen across today’s internet, making allusions to it commonplace ↩︎

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