Grain Entrapment

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About

Grain Entrapment refers to when a person gets submerged in grain when the pile of grain they were standing on, like quicksand. The phenomenon has been joked about online for several years before growing in popularity in late 2017.

Precursor

Before becoming a meme, the concept of Grain Entrapment had seen some popular spread online. For example, On April 23rd, 2011, YouTube channel PioneerRescueLLC posted a simulation of grain entrapment, gaining over 280,000 views (shown below).

On September 23rd, 2013, Tumblr user @aglaja,^[1] since deactivated, posted an illustration of the grain entrapment phenomenon, gaining over 70,000 notes (shown below).

Crusted Grain Surface It takes only two to three seconds to become helpless in flowing grain Void Illustration of grain engulfment hazard

Origin

Jokes about grain entrapment began appearing several years later. Meme Documentation^[2] traces the first humorous reference to grain entrapment to a September 3rd, 2015 post by Tumblr user worm^[3] titled "the last thing my enemies see before succumbing to the grain," which gained over 87,000 notes (shown below).

the last thing my enemies see before succumbing to the grain gettyimages Monty Rakusen

Spread

The meme saw some spread in niche communities over the following two years. On November 1st, 2015, Facebook page ＬＳＤ：ＭｅｍｅＥｍｕｌａｔｏr^[4] posted the PioneerRescueLLC video to their page, where it gained over 1,000 likes and shares. On May 16th, 2016, YouTube channel Scrapple TV uploaded a video in which they predicted Grain Death would be the next big meme of 2016, including some examples of image macros referencing Grain Entrapment. The video gained over 1,500 views (shown below).

On October 13th, 2017 a Tumblr devoted to shitposting about grain entrapment, grain-entrapment,^[5] launched. Meme Documentation cites this as the spark which made Grain Entrapment shitposts more popular on Tumblr. Some used the image posted by aglaja as an exploitable. For example, a post by imgayjokes gained over 1,500 notes (shown below, left). A post by positively-lgbtq^[6] labeled grain "That Gay Shit," gaining over 600 notes.

I1 ONLY TAKES 3 OR 4 SECONDS TO BECOME GAY N FLOWING IM GAY IM GAY im gay im gay im gay im gay im gay im gay imgay im gay im gay

Various Examples

Grain silo (old design) Literal death trap just waiting to murder men Grain silo (new design) Safe. Family friendly. A grair silo you can take home to mom grain-entrapment @grain-entrapment No!!! What the f---!!! new concept: very tall n slim too slim for a person to fall in but same volume You asked for it. You got it Grain silo (old design) Literal death trap just waiting to murder men Grain silo (new design) Tall. Majestic. Phallic. Safe

ONE QUICk READING OF CAMUS IT ONLY TAKES ONE OR TWO READINGS OF EXISTENTIALISTS TO BECOME HELPLESSLY ENTRAPPED BY ANGST AGAIN Void Illustration of angst engulfment hazard

Search Interest

External References

^[1] Meme Documentation – aglaja

^[2] Meme Documentation – Explained: Grain Entrapment Meme

^[3] Tumblr – worm post

^[4] Facebook – LSD Meme Emulator

^[5] Tumblr – grain-entrapment

^[6] Tumblr – positively-lgbtq

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Jill Moderator

Oct 31, 2017 at 12:35PM EDT

one thing to note: while the article says "like quicksand" grain entrapment, though much less common, is more likly to directly kill you. Wet quicksand is mostly water. The human body will float in water, and so you will float in wet quicksand. Granted you can still die of exposure but the quicksnd itself won't kill you unless you jump in head first.

Sinking in grain is worse. There is no water to keep you buoyant. As you get deeper (even if your head is above the grain) the weight of the grain increases on your body. It constricts a persons body, making it more and more difficult for the chest cavity to expand to breathe, and each time it does, you sink more exacerbating the problem. Unlike quicksand, you cannot get free under your own power.

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