Catholics vs. Seedless Watermelons

About

Catholics vs. Seedless Watermelons refers to the online rivalry between the "Catholics Against Seedless Watermelons" and the "Watermelons Against Seedless Catholics" Facebook pages.

Origin

On July 23rd, 2012, the Catholics Against Seedless Watermelons Facebook^[1] page was launched, which describes itself as a "unification against seedless watermelons, a tasteless representation of abortion, birth control, and genetic modification" (shown below, left). On May 17th, 2016, the Seedless Watermelons Against Catholics^[5] page was created, which contains the mission statement "If Catholics are allowed to hate on us, we as seedless watermelons shall fight back" on the About page (shown below, right).

Spread

On August 12th, 2018, Redditor Hegemon_Alexander submitted a post titled "Seedless watermelons unite," which contained the message "WWII was the most devasting war in human history" followed by a screenshot of the two Facebook pages to the /r/memes^[2] subreddit (shown below).

On October 20th, Redditor dankbob_memepants_ submitted an object-labeled screencap from the anime Naruto in which the protagonist is shown hiding a watermelon from Catholics to /r/MemeEconomy^[3] (shown below). Within 24 hours, the post gained over 17,400 points (90% upvoted) and 1,100 comments.

On October 21st, Redditor jzdb submitted a post asking "What's up with those 'catholics and seedless watermelon' memes?" to /r/OutOfTheLoop.^[4] On October 22nd, Redditor Davman8 submitted an object-labeled stock photo to /r/MemeEconomy^[6] titled "Proof that seedless watermelon memes have potential beyond what we’ve seen already" (shown below).

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