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TradCath E-Girl Summit refers to a series of parodies about a meeting between five women self-described as "TradCath" (a portmanteau of "traditional Catholic" that is associated with the Red Scare podcast) "E-girls" at a Catholic church. The combination of controversial, internet-centric aesthetics prompted jokes imagining alternative iterations of a "TradCath E-Girl Summit."

Origin

On January 11th, 2023, Twitter @Actually_Lia^[1] posted an image of herself and Twitter users @p8stie, @bIiccy, @DollPariah and @nastiapasta attending Catholic church, writing, "At the TradCath E-girl Summit." The post was ratioed, gaining only 86 retweets next to 1,500 quote tweets and 1,600 likes.

Spread

The post was widely mocked for its combination of two controversial aesthetics, and jokes about the "TradCath E-Girl Summit" soon spread on Twitter. For example, on January 15th, 2023, Twitter user @Tyler02020202^[2] posted an image of a woman in squalor, writing "I'm at the tradcath e-girl summit," gaining over 30 retweets and 1,400 likes in ten days (shown below, left). User @GeneralSlug^[3] joked the only way to defeat a tradcath e-girl summit was a "german mystic protestant e-girl reformation," gaining over 70 likes in one week (shown below, right).

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