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dub3's pixel tribute to Subservient Chicken in 2004: a Web 2.0-era home page
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2004 page

dub3 card · www.subservientchicken.com

Subservient Chicken (2004)

Type a command, and a man in a chicken suit in a living room does it.

Cost
5 RAM
Power
8
Rarity
Common
Family
Commerce
Era
Web 2.0 (2003 to 2008)
Collection
Meme Machine

What it does

On reveal: Enemy cards cost 2 more to play here.

On reveal happens once, when the card flips.

It costs 5 RAM to play and brings 8 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.

Commerce cards grow every round and make your opponent pay more to play.

The site, in 2004

A Burger King website where a man in a chicken suit seemed to obey anything visitors typed, using pre-filmed clips of over 300 actions.

Made by The Barbarian Group for the agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky to sell the TenderCrisp sandwich, it launched on 8 April 2004. ClickZ reported over 46 million visits in its first week.

In 2004: Launched on 8 April; one of the costume's designers wore the suit after the actor hired for it found it too claustrophobic.

Web 2.0 era, 2003 to 2008. Rounded corners, reflections and drop shadows. Everything was social, and everything was in beta.

Meme Machine: Where the jokes everyone repeated got started.

Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2004 page.

Put it on your site

Run Subservient Chicken, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1999. Paste this into your page:

Subservient Chicken is a dub3 card

In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2004, then plays a short scene. Want Subservient Chicken in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.