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Pig Poop Balls refers to an image of a pig having just defecated with the feces resting on its large testicles. After appearing online, it was used as a reaction image in forums and on Twitter to show one's utter distaste and disregard for another's opinion.

Origin

The image was posted to Imgur by Jeffrey Reardon on September 1st, 2011^[1] (shown below). The same day, it was posted to Reddit's /r/pics by user steinamo, where it gained over 420 points.^[6]

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That day, the image was tweeted by Twitter user @fart, though the tweet has since been deleted, saying it was "a hit" at the office.^[2] Deadspin put up a piece about the photo on September 8th, 2011.^[3] They later included it as a sardonic nominee into their "hall of fame."^[5] On February 24th, 2012, the photo was shared to Reddit's /r/WTF.^[4]

On March 24th, 2013, Buzzfeed's^[2] Katie Notopoulos interviewed Jeffrey Reardon to hear the backstory behind the photo. Reardon stated:

I was at The Minnesota State Fair…. we were in the pig barn and I had noticed this guy was very clean for a pig (probably had just been washed for competition?) and had his butt facing us with gigantic balls.
My friends and I had just noticed him and were all looking at his gargantuan balls for no more than 3 seconds when all of a sudden he poops out this huge turd. It fell out his ass, onto his balls and sat on top of them for about 30 seconds before slowly sliding off. I think he made it fall off by taking a couple steps.
We were horrified and couldn't believe what we just saw. It was a very random and coincidental thing for us all to see. I just happened to have my phone out when it happened, felt compelled to document the nastiness, and there you have it. I sent it to Brandon and he posted it up on Reddit for the world to see.
The picture is disgusting but I still think it's hilarious. I had some lucky timing.

Additionally, Notopoulos inquired about the state of the pig's health, and swine physician Dr. Larry Rueff stated:

Actually the pig is healthy. The fact is the pig is an example of a typical male that is used for breeding. He is extremely lean (little fat) and heavily muscled. The fact that he is tilted a little to his left makes it look like his ribs are showing when actually it is just his skin rolled together.
He has just had a bowel movement and because he has large testicles it had a little difficulty falling to the ground. That would have worked it's self out in a few minutes. He is rather well developed but not unhealthy. In fact the sows(females) would consider him quite healthy!

The photo was also used to troll others on Twitter. For example, in 2016, in response to rude remarks made to user pattymo by user Stephen Lee (@steleeemancman), @pattymo encouraged his followers to send the image to Lee with the phrase "Pizzagate is fake," which several did (shown below).

The photo also saw use in forum threads such as that for Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal fans as a means to make moderators lock what some considered bad threads. For example, the image appeared in a July 2016 thread complaining about the amount of homosexual couples in the comic, resulting in the thread being locked.^[7]

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