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Why Shouldn’t You Google ‘Car Dragon?’ The TikTok Trend And Meme Explained
Most people, it should be safe to say, never fantasize about dragons having sex with cars. Most people, however, were not on the DoodleDraw.com imageboard in 2007. On that imageboard, a hefty spawn of images featuring dragons and cars in intimate circumstances blossomed and then spread across other imageboards, including 4chan, often shared as an ironic meme by people who did not share that fetish.
This early meme left its trace on the internet and car dragon imagery remains easily accessible in 2022. Zoomers have since begun recording themselves responding to the often-explicit Google results for “dragon car” on TikTok since last spring, resurrecting a meme that had passed into obscurity by revamping it into the increasingly prevalent Don't Google series of memes.
So why shouldn't you Google "Car Dragon?" Allow us to explain the finer details of this meme and TikTok trend.
Where Does Car Dragon Come From?
The dragon and car fetish were supposedly invented by John Martello, a furry artist interested in dragons. He created the first three dragon car intercourse images from May to June 2004. Nobody knows the website they were first posted on.
In February 2007, Martello's pictures were reposted to DoodleDraw.com by an anonymous user and inspired many imitations. From there, car and dragon imagery spread to 4chan, where it became a fairly common meme. Many joked about how the meme served as proof of Rule 34, the maxim which says that if you can think of it, online pornography of it exists.
Search interest for dragons and cars peaked in spring 2011 and then declined, but recently, this trend has had a resurgence thanks to the explosion of "Don't Look Up" and "Don't Google" memes.
On March 24th, 2022, TIkToker @graygrayisgaygay posted a video of herself before and after googling the term "car dragon." She filmed her surprised reaction and challenged others to do the same, lip-synching along to Soulja Boy's 2007 song “Yahhh!” Enough people took her up on her challenge to bring car dragon memes back from the grave.
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7078433637825400106
Car Dragon Usage In Memes
To put it bluntly, most dragon car images feature cartoony images of dragons with male body parts having sexual intercourse with automobiles. Here's a relatively SFW example.
The TikToks generally feature users reacting with disgust, some expressing mere disapproval of the bizarre NSFW imagery, and others appearing to be shocked and scandalized by what they have witnessed.
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7080637555728928046
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7080604552243744005
Where Did the "Car Dragon Song" Come From?
The song featured in most TikTok videos related to the trend use a remixed sample of "Yahhh!” by rapper Soulja Boy, a track he recorded early in his career in 2007. The song was panned by critics at the time, such as Alex Fletcher's review for Digital Spy, who said it sounded like a “Nokia ring tone” and was full of “incomprehensible gibberish.”
If you want to learn more about this topic, check out our entries on Dragons Having Sex With Cars and Before And After Looking Up 'Car Dragon' for more.
