Americans love a comeback story. We lift the obscure to mega-stardom only to cheer their downfall, then, years later, herald their “redemption.” Take Mike Tyson—the incredibly talented yet profoundly flawed boxer experienced the highest of highs and the ultimate lows. Now, Kid Dynamite is a beloved celebrity shilling weed gummies.

Microsoft’s virtual assistant Clippit, or Clippy as it’s commonly known, hasn’t had quite the arc that Tyson’s lived, but Clippy was, for a long time, a much-maligned feature of Microsoft’s Office suite. Introduced in 1997, at a time of mass home PC adoption, Clippy only wanted to help folks write a resume or a letter, but consumers weren’t having it. Microsoft eventually removed the feature, starting with Office XP, but Clippy returned after the Redmond-based tech giant proposed bringing back the assistant as a paperclip emoji.