Shitter's Clogged

About

Shitter's Clogged refers to a viral photograph of a young girl covered in black marker featuring the caption "Shitter's clogged," indicating that a toilet has malfunctioned.

Origin

On January 19th, 2014, Redditor incurableinsomnia submitted a photograph of a young girl with a face covered in black marker ink to /r/funny^[3] in a post titled "Watcha lookin at" (shown below, left). Prior to being archived, the post gathered upwards of 1,800 points (88% upvoted) and 80 comments. On March 15th, Redditor Ginner88 submitted the picture to /r/funny^[2] with the caption "Shitter's / Clogged," gaining more than 1,900 points (83% upvoted) and 120 comments prior to being archived (shown below, right).

Precursor

In the 1989 comedy film National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, the character Cousin Eddie (played by Randy Quaid) loudly proclaims "Shitter was full" while emptying his chemical toilet (shown below).

Spread

On May 12th, 2017, Redditor FisterRobotOh posted a photograph of a child covered in mud to /r/funny with the title "Shitter's clogged" (shown below, left). On October 16th, Imgur user GeckoBro uploaded a photograph of a dog covered in mud with the title "Shitter's clogged" (shown below, right).

On August 22nd, 2018, Redditor Ericohs submitted a photoshopped version of the original image with a joke about RTX technology developed by the graphics card company NVidia (shown below). Within 24 hours, the post gained more than 37,500 points (91% upvoted) and 560 comments on /r/pcmasterrace.^[1]

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