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What's Up With All The Memes Pitting Bart Against Onions? The NCAA Football Trend Explained
If you've been seeing a sudden influx of Bart profile pictures in certain college football-associated corners of the internet, you may have stumbled onto a brewing rivalry between Barts and Onions.
What began as a lighthearted way for people to display their B12 team affiliations turned into a trend where people share images of Bart fighting against humanoid onion creatures.
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Here's how one X (former Twitter) user's goal to turn the world over to the "Bart" side resulted in Barstool's The Yak giving the Bart Cult a shoutout.
Where Did The Bart vs. Onion Rivalry Originate?
On November 15th, X user @SteadyE69 made a series of posts encouraging his followers to "join the movement" by changing their profile picture to one of Bart Simpson with an NCAA football logo edited onto his hat. The post is the earliest known mention of the "Bart Cult," with many X users crediting @SteadyE69 for starting the trend.
Join the movement pic.twitter.com/YOIjy2YlNd
β Eddy π£πΊπΈ (@SteadyE69) November 15, 2023
On the same day, X user @CycloneRetroSN posted a photo of the Iowa State football logo slapped onto an Onion, in reference to a match between the @SteadyE69's Texas Longhorns and the Iowa State Cyclones.
![Bart vs. Onion J-Shmurda Head Onion @CycloneRetroSN Stand up to the liberal Bart left. Join the movement #NewProfilePic STATE 1:26 PM Nov 15, 2023 8,631 Views](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/702/166/68e.png)
How Did The Bart vs. Onion Rivalry Spread?
Various X users changed their profile picture to one of Bart wearing a hat featuring a football team of their choice on November 15th, 2023, with @SteadyE69 noting the influx of engagement from Bart profile picture users.
This is my legacy pic.twitter.com/TkntNYzhHF
β Eddy π£πΊπΈ (@SteadyE69) November 16, 2023
X user @_the_kyle posted a meme about the trend on November 15th, soon followed by the gimmick page "No Context College Football" posting a Bart vs. Onion meme as well.
![Bart vs. Onion Kyleβ’ @_the_kyle : "yeah so like everyone started changing their pfp to bart simpson but with their team's logo cause of this guy steady eddy and then other people started doing onions and then there was a war between the onions and the barts and then im a bart because-- oh? you... you have to go? can i get your number first? no?" 9:04 PM . Nov 15, 2023 810.2K Views](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/702/064/2e0.png)
![Bart vs. Onion no context college football @nocontextcfb 11:39 PM . Nov 15, 2023 362.6K Views β’ :](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/702/052/535.png)
How Did The Bart vs. Onion Rivarly Make It To Barstool's The Yak?
The Barstool's Yak discussed the Bart vs. Onion trend on November 16th after a hoard of Bart and Onion loyalists flocked to the replies of their tweets on November 15th and 16th.
BANNNNGGGGG WE HERE W BART CAT! @BarstoolYak #BartUp pic.twitter.com/R0myUVsLF8
β Reagan Huggins (@ReaganHuggins12) November 16, 2023
For the full history of Bart vs. Onion, be sure to check out Know Your Meme's encyclopedia entry for more information.
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