About

"Blobo" refers to an exploitable MS Paint image of a blobfish^[1] frequently posted on 4chan and other forums with the sentence, "BLOBO IS NEW MEME". The image is often presented as a forced meme, similar to WOFL and Fefe.

Origin

The first known use of the image was in a post in a January 28th, 2016 /r9k/ thread about a new meme, "frail snail." The post suggested that the blobfish would be a much better animal for a meme than the snail, because "Blobfish's are litteraly the omega males of the animal kingdom."^[2]

The first known use of the image accompanied by the word "blobo" is in a February 1st, 2016 /r9k/ post in a thread about a new meme called "morzo." The post stated that "BLOBO IS NEW MAYMAY".^[3]

Spread

A search for the phrase "blobo" brings up over 40 results on Desustorage^[4], over 130 results on 4plebs^[5], and over 500 results on fgts.jp^[6]. On March 1st, the YouTube channel "Nashnul gographick" post a video entitled "Blobo (new meme 2016)", which presented the image as a new meme; the video has received 170 in 25 days. The video has since been taken down, but was later reuploaded on April 17th, 2016. A subreddit was later created for Blobo on February 27th, 2016; as of a month later, it has 3 readers.^[7]

Various Examples

Search Interest

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