About

I Think It Can Digging In The Ground For Tubers refers to a viral Tumblr post consisting of an image of an echidna with a nonsensical quote about how the animal looks funny but "you have to take it seriously eventually," ending with the sentence, "I think it can digging in the ground for tubers." The post was made in August 2019 and inspired numerous memes referencing it over the following years, with the catchphrase itself becoming a copypasta.

Origin

On August 5th, 2019, Tumblr^[1] user worm-suggestion reblogged an image of an echidna from Tumblr^[2] user Crownshrine and added an absurd string of text. The text reads: "It looks funny, right? You think it looks funny. I do too. But it lives its whole life. So you have to take it seriously eventually, right? And be respectful and shit. I think it can digging in the ground for tubers." The post gained over 149,000 notes in two years (shown below).

Spread

The phrase has since become a copypasta, used without context alongside images of different characters. On July 26th, 2021, Gianni Matragrano posted a voiced-over version of the meme to YouTube, gaining over 600,000 views in five months (shown below).

On October 19th, 2021, Twitter^[3] user @RANK10YGO posted the quote with an image of Yu-Gi-Oh creature MogMole, gaining over 500 likes in two months (shown below, left). On November 28th, Twitter^[4] user @ilikerobloxyeah used the copypasta with an image of the Pokemon Ditto in response to a tweet reading "Tweet like Pokémon were real" (shown below, right).

On October 26th, Tumblr^[5] user slabime posted Don't Starve fan art featuring Wilson looking at an echidna and saying the lines, gaining over 110 notes in just under two months (shown below).

Copypasta

It looks funny, right? You think it looks funny.

I do too. But it lives its whole life. So you have to take it seriously eventually, right? And be respectful and shit.

I think it can digging in the ground for tubers.

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