About

What's In Your Pants refers to a text manipulation meme where a person tries to figure out if another person is a boy or a girl, and gets unexpected answers.

Origin

The earliest known usage was by Tumblr user cr333333p, on January 1st, 2015.^[1] It gathered over 175,000 notes in about a year.

“Are you a man or a woman?”
“I’m a villain.”
“What gender are you?”
“Evil.”
“Yeah, but what’s in your pants?”
“Doom.”

Spread

The next earliest known usage (shown below) was by Tumblr user meowvgonsplenger on January 19th, 2015, in a drawing of Stevonnie from Steven Universe. While the original post was taken down, surviving reblogs indicate that it gathered over 60,000 notes in just over a year.^[2]

Another early usage was by Tumblr user charlesoberonn. While the original post was removed, the earliest known surviving reblog was on March 19th, 2015,^[3] and garnered over 230,000 notes in 11 months.

“Are you a Mr. or a Ms.?”

“Dr.”

“But are you a man or a woman?”

“I’m a scientist.”

Around April 2015, iFunny user SU_Randomness_and_Junk uploaded an image (shown below) of Jasper from Steven Universe with the text from the original quote on top.^[4]

Various Examples

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