About

Thin Hair Chin Man, also referred to as Le Thin Hair Chin Man or THCm is a meme created on the Finnish imageboard Ylilauta in 2012, revolving around an Icelandic teenager. With beautifully thin hair and a magnificent, vigorous chin, Thin Hair Chin Man became an instant classic among the users of Ylilauta. It has since spawned many spin-offs.

Origin

While there are many versions of the story about how this meme was created, the correct one is:

A Brazilian poster created a thread on Ylilauta's /int/ board, asking people to suggest memes he could force on Krautchan's /int/ board, since that board is hated by most Ylilautan posters due to the posters there being "Assburgers".

THCM's personal friend (under an anonymous Icelandic poster name and icon) posted THCM's picture on that thread,telling the OP and other posters to force it as much as they could. Since the posters liked that picture so much, they immediately started doing so on Krautchan's /int/. However, it wasn't successful. A German poster from Krautchan (under the name "that Singen autism",), that people suspected was one of Krautchan's admins, went to Ylilauta's /int/, and started forcing THCM's picture there (along with other spin-offs he created himself) as much as he could, probably as "payback" for the raids Ylilauta had done on Krautchan in the past.

The meme actually caught on in Ylilauta, thus leading to most users embracing it, and naming it "Thin Hair Chin Man". Nowadays, the meme spawns many spin-offs, and is one of the most popular memes in Ylilauta. It has also been spread around 4chan and the wider interwebs.

Aftermath

After the meme had become a success, some posters decided to try and find out who was the person behind all these pictures, and perhaps contact him. Even though they weren't successful, many Finnish posters started leaking multiple personal photos of Chin Man onto Ylilauta's /int/, along with his real name, thus exposing his true identity. In fact, one Icelandic poster recognized him from the street.

After many months of searching for THCM, they finally found his Facebook page on July 23-24, 2013, after he had accepted many friend requests from Ylilautan posters ^[1] Sadly, when they tried to contact him and tell him he was a huge meme, he revoked all friendship acceptances, stating that he "knew about the chin", and that he wanted people to respect his privacy.

On the 9th August, 2013, he finally appeared in Ylilauta, posting for the first time after he posted his picture, much to posters' joy.

On 5th October, 2013, by 23:00 GMT, a raid (a.k.a. "enrichening") called Operation Thin Chin, that had a premise of exposing the meme to 4chan's /b/, took place. ^[2] The raid was not quite successful, since many /b/tards refused to accept the meme. However, at one point in time, over 70% of all /b/ was THCm

Krautchan 20 Million GET

On the 20th of November 2013, after intense planning^[4], Ylilauta users successfully acquired the hotly contested Krautchan 20000000 GET by posting Thin Hair Chin Man, posted by an anonymous Norwegian poster. This caused many Krautchan users to experience butthurt and they had to reside in the fact that they could continue to discuss haplogroups. A sticky was created, and everyone who posted THCm was banned; in total, 88 users were banned. Since then, the 20th of November is known as "World Chin Day"^[3].

External References

^[1] Ylilauta – YES! YES! / Posted on 23/07/2013

^[2] Ylilauta – r we doing this? / Posted on 4/10/2013

^[3] 20M get – butthurt / Posted on 20/11/13

^[4] Ylilauta – THE KRAUTCHAN 20000000 GET Posted on 20/11/13