About

"Anything's / Everything's A Dildo If You're Brave Enough" is a phrase often used in reaction to misshapen or phallic shaped objects and is easily associated to cacti. The phrase is also attributed to Abraham Lincoln as a trollquote.@

Origin

The earliest known rendition of the phrase was uploaded to Joyreactor^[1] on April 24th, 2011, by an anonymous user, tagging it with 9gag (shown below).

Spread

Circa 2013, Tumblr user pizzanist^[2] posted the phrase and has gained upwards of 140,000 notes. In December, 2014, Reddit user -Veritas-Aequitas^[3] uploaded an image of a phallic cactus (shown below, left) to r/funny using the phrase and gaining over 2,000 upvotes. And in 2014, imgur user whiplashfzxkk^[4] uploaded a screencapped tumblr post with a large icicle titling it with the phrase (shown below, right) gaining over 7,000 points.

On 9gag^[5], user Surprise_Buttsex uploaded an image (shown below) of two large women and a short man with the saying and receiving over 40,000 upvotes.

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