About

Country Girls Make Do is a catchphrase based on an a sexual illustration of a woman and a corncob, implying she masturbated using an ear of corn. The picture is often coupled with the caption "City women buy vibrators/country women make do." While the image itself has been used on numerous social media platforms, the phrase has mostly been associated with Tumblr.

Origin

On August 19th, 2014, the Facebook ^[1] account for German artist and illustrator Toni Greis posted the original image of a woman walking away from a dripping ear of corn, implying that she used it for masturbation. The image (shown below) received more than 860 reactions, 180 shares and 45 comments in three years.

Spread

On August 3rd, 2017, Facebook^[2] user MoreMindlessBullshit posted the earliest known version of the picture with the caption "City girls buy vibrators/Country girls make do" (shown below).

Several days later, on August 7th, Redditor ^[3] TeBeroDerp posted the image to the /r/gatekeeping subreddit. The post received more than 2,300 points (92% upvoted) and 230 comments. That day, Tumblr^[5] user earthdad posted the image with the comment "country girls out here truly shucking corn." The post received more than 1,500 notes.

One week later, on August 14th, Tumblr^[4] user weedflavoredcornchip posted a variation, placing a McDonald's french fry container over the corn and the words "nald's "McDo" over the words "Girls Make Do" in the caption. The post (shown below, left) received more than 163,000 notes.

On August 17th, Tumblr^[6] user postmaxed captioned a picture of a pair of triceratops corncob holders "Country girls make do." The post (shown below, right) received more than 8,300 notes.

Four days later, the Tumblr^[7] Meme Documentation archived the spread of the meme.

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