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Guy Throwing Rocks at an Elephant meme.

Guy Throwing Rocks at an Elephant

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Updated Mar 31, 2025 at 08:16PM EDT by Philipp.

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Guy Throwing Rocks at an Elephant refers to a two-panel cartoon in which a person is throwing rocks at an elephant, who ignores him. Originally posted on Tumblr in August 2023, the image saw spread online, inspiring edits, including the viral version in which the dialogue is altered to the visitor calling the elephant gay.

Origin

On August 8th, 2023, webcomic artist Crawfish Comic posted a two-panel cartoon in which a visitor at a zoo is throwing rocks at an elephant to get a reaction to Tumblr.[1] The elephant ignores him, replying that there is no answer greater than silence and no punishment greater than forgiveness, adding, "bitch." The post (shown below) gained over 51,100 likes and reblogs in eight months.


why isnt it doing anything because there is no answer greater than silence and no punishment greater than forgiveness bitch

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On August 20th and August 29th, 2023, X[2][3] / Twitter users @ThanksThoth and @Amanseeks both posted the image with the word "bitch" removed (shown below). The posts received over 260 reposts and 2,300 likes, and 1,900 reposts and 15,000 likes, respectively, in eight months.


why isnt it doing anything because there is no answer greater than silence and no punishment greater than forgiveness

The latter post was followed by the initial edits[4] of the image; most notably, on August 30th, X[5] user @Ankroma1 posted an edit of the first panel in which the man called the animal gay, which received over 10 reposts and 570 likes in eight months (shown below, left).


gaaaayyyyyyyy why isnt it doing anything because there is no answer greater than silence and no punishment greater than forgiveness

On November 7th, 2023, X[6] user @GoombaShroomba used the edit as a reaction image, gaining over 470 reposts and 4,100 likes in five months. On November 7th, artist Fallenchungus quoted[7] the post, writing, "I would trade all my genuine art talent just for the ability to draw like this only." The post (shown below) received over 3,000 reposts and 33,000 likes on X, helping popularize the meme.


fallenchungus @fallenchungus i would trade all my genuine art talent just for the ability to draw like this only ballsjimmy @GoombaShroomba Nov 7, 2023 Replying to @fallenchungus 9:49 AM Nov 7, 2023 963.6K Views gaaaayyyyyyyy ...

On February 27th, 2024, X[8] user @neorouxls made a thread of images of Undertale characters throwing rocks at character Flowey and calling him gay. The thread received multiple submissions, with the opening post (shown below, left) gaining over 3,500 reposts and 36,000 likes in two months.


TE * gaaaayyyyyyyy TE * gaaaayyyyYYYY

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There's no end, there's no glor There's a slow resounding story There's no place to feel certain There's nobody waiting for me There's no stand (There's no l es, no n gaaaayyyyyyyy why isnt it doing anything because there is no answer greater than silence and no punishment greater than forgiveness THIS ELEPHANT IS F------ STUPID I think chainsawing off your balls would be a greater punishment gaaaayyyy9999 * 2
+ gaaaayyyyyyyy d nial @monkey_d_nial You guys throwing rocks at me if I were a gay elephant 11:49 PM Nov 26, 2023 2,779 Views . gaaaayyyyyyyy ...

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