When you gaze long into a Yo Dawg...

...the Yo Dawg will gaze back into you.

The preceding link is to a 65-deep recursive "Yo Dawg yo-yo" meme, generated by the Yo Dawg Generator. For a more complete experience, you can scroll through the depths 0-65 (this page is ~10mb to load).

What exactly is this? Once upon a time there was the Xzibit Yo Dawg meme, and the people of the internet were amused. Then somebody came up with the clever idea of making the meme about a yo-yo and a dog:

Original "Yo Dawg yo-yo" meme

And the people of the internet were again amused. But this was not enough, and somebody came up with the further idea of sticking the yo-yo/dog meme on a yo-yo:

Yo Dawg/Inception Face off

And the people of the internet were confused/amused (for a good explanation, see this Reddit comment). But then, I came along and asked "why stop there?"

And so, I present to you the fruit of the Yo Dawg Generator:

Yo dawg, we herd you like yo-yos and yo-yo Yo Dawg yo-yo Yo Dawg yo-yo Yo Dawg yo-yo Yo Dawg yo-yo Yo Dawg Yo Dawgs so we put the yo-yo Yo Dawg yo-yo Yo Dawg yo-yo Yo Dawg yo-yo Yo Dawg yo-yo Yo Dawg yo-yo Yo Dawg in a yo-yo so you can yo-yo yo' yo-yo Yo Dawg yo-yo Yo Dawg yo-yo Yo Dawg yo-yo Yo Dawg yo-yo Yo Dawg yo-yo Yo Dawg while you yo-yo yo' Yo Dawg yo-yo Yo Dawg yo-yo Yo Dawg yo-yo Yo Dawg yo-yo Yo Dawg yo-yo Yo Dawg yo-yo Yo Dawg yo-yo dawg while yo' yo-yo Yo Dawg yo-yo Yo Dawg yo-yo Yo Dawg yo-yo Yo Dawg yo-yo Yo Dawg yo-yo Yo Dawg yo-yo dawg yo-yos, dawg.

Mind you, that's only to depth 5. At depth 0, it perfectly reproduces the "Inception Face-Off" version of the meme (e.g. the one with DiCaprio above). The version I linked to at the opening was 65 deep, and you can run it as deep as you want, though if you're generating images rather than text it does run out of space in the 60s.

"But that's just gibberish!" you must be thinking. Well, yes, but if you want you can translate the output into something slightly more intelligible. Here is the same depth "clarified":

Yo dawg, we herd you like yo-yos and an Xzibit meme featuring a yo-yo toy about an Xzibit meme featuring a yo-yo toy about an Xzibit meme featuring a yo-yo toy about an Xzibit meme featuring a yo-yo toy about an Xzibit meme featuring a yo-yo toy about the Xzibit meme so we put the Xzibit meme featuring a yo-yo Xzibit meme featuring a yo-yo Xzibit meme featuring a yo-yo Xzibit meme featuring a yo-yo Xzibit meme featuring a yo-yo Xzibit meme featuring a yo-yo in a yo-yo so you can yo-yo yo' Xzibit meme featuring a yo-yo Xzibit meme featuring a yo-yo Xzibit meme featuring a yo-yo Xzibit meme featuring a yo-yo Xzibit meme featuring a yo-yo Xzibit meme featuring a yo-yo while you yo-yo yo' dog featured on an Xzibit meme yo-yo on an Xzibit meme yo-yo on an Xzibit meme yo-yo on an Xzibit meme yo-yo on an Xzibit meme yo-yo on an Xzibit meme yo-yo on an Xzibit meme yo-yo while yo' dog on a yo-yo in an Xzibit meme about yo-yos in an Xzibit meme about yo-yos in an Xzibit meme about yo-yos in an Xzibit meme about yo-yos in an Xzibit meme about yo-yos in an Xzibit meme about yo-yos yo-yos, dawg.

"Well now it's too easy to understand!" you probably aren't thinking, but I'll pretend you are. Why then there's the obfuscation option, which removes that pesky punctuation and capitalization to make all the "yos" the same:

YO DAWG, WE HERD YO LIKE YO YOS AND YO YO YO DAWG YO YO YO DAWG YO YO YO DAWG YO YO YO DAWG YO YO YO DAWG YO DAWGS SO WE PUT THE YO YO YO DAWG YO YO YO DAWG YO YO YO DAWG YO YO YO DAWG YO YO YO DAWG YO YO YO DAWG IN A YO YO SO YO CAN YO YO YO YO YO YO DAWG YO YO YO DAWG YO YO YO DAWG YO YO YO DAWG YO YO YO DAWG YO YO YO DAWG WHILE YO YO YO YO YO DAWG YO YO YO DAWG YO YO YO DAWG YO YO YO DAWG YO YO YO DAWG YO YO YO DAWG YO YO YO DAWG YO YO DAWG WHILE YO YO YO YO DAWG YO YO YO DAWG YO YO YO DAWG YO YO YO DAWG YO YO YO DAWG YO YO YO DAWG YO YO DAWG YO YOS, DAWG.

But wait, there's more! The Yo Dawg Generator also creates pictures, admittedly some room for improvement here but they're at least as functional as most Xzibit meme pictures. To wit:

"Yo Dawg yo-yo" to depth 5

And there you have it - a rather silly extension of a rather silly thing. I've actually come up with a whole todo list for future development, so if you're at least half as amused by this as I am check it out. The Yo Dawg Generator is written in Python and licensed under the GPL v3 with the source hosted at Google Code.

Thanks for reading, dawg.