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Remember Clippy? Your Favourite Office Assistant Is Pregnant

Even the creator thinks it's odd.

It's certainly been a while since the the early noughties but it would be hard to forget everyone's most hated and useless Microsoft Office assistant, Clippy, who has recently resurfaced...pregnant.

Your timeline has now been blessed by mpreg Clippy pic.twitter.com/Hcgepu2v83

— Katie Notopoulos (@katienotopoulos) April 21, 2017'

For those not in the know, the reincarnation of clippy falls under the 'mpreg' genre of art where a male is depicted as being pregnant.

Perhaps the most disturbed by mpreg Clippy is the original creator, Kevan Atteberry, who recently spoke to Motherboard about the expectant paperclip.

"I've not seen anything weirder," he said.

"There's no volume in a paper clip, and to use the paper to make him pregnant...The fact that I've always considered Clippy a male... How did he get pregnant?"

Atteberry obviously hasn't seen the other fan-made artwork depicting exactly how Clippy got pregnant. If your heart desires, go and have a google for it -- don't worry, we'll still be here when you get back.

But believe it or not, pregnant Clippy isn't even the weirdest Clippy out there.

Someone's even gone to the effort of writing erotic literature about Clippy...

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"Christie Aackerlund doesn't need help with anything. So when the world's biggest technology company offers to fly her to a remote location and investigate an alien artefact, all by herself, she's all like "I'll do it!"" the book's description reads.

"But the artefact isn't what it seems, and soon an overly helpful giant living paperclip is getting her all bent out of shape."

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That might be enough internet for today we think.

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