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Cock Is One of My Favorite Tastes or John Green Text Post Editing Scandal is a notorious copypasta and Tumblr meme originating from a 2010s text-editing prank involving author John Green. The copypasta is associated with a Tumblr post by now-deleted user @katara, who replaced the text of one of Green's posts with a sexually explicit monologue beginning with the phrase "Cock is one of my favorite tastes."

The edit circulated widely within Tumblr's fandom and meme communities in the latter half of the 2010s, with users jokingly presenting the altered post as though Green had written the text himself. The incident became one of the best-known examples of Tumblr's practice of editing the text of reblogged posts to create deliberately absurd or provocative versions of the original, with rumors claiming the feature was disabled in direct response to the incident circulating on the platform.

Origin

The copypasta appears to predate its widespread association with John Green. Tumblr user @heritageposts later reported finding a web capture of a Green post edited with the monologue dating to December 19th, 2012.

In discussing the archived post, another user identified the text as having been written by @ehjovan, an account associated with comedian and influencer Jovan Hill (formerly Tumblr user @katara),^[1] though Hill has identified^[6] Tumblr blog @k1mkardashian as the source of the text.

I just wanted to say Cock is one of my favorite tastes. Not only that, but balls smell amazing. It makes me go a little crazy on it to be honest. Like, I cannot get it far enough down my throat to be satisfied. I’m only satisfied when I feel those intense, powerful, salty, hot pumps of cum down my throat. When I sit back on my heels, look up at you with cum all over my mouth and slobber running down my neck, hair all fucked up and wipe my mouth with the back of my arm and ask you if I did a good job and you cannot even speak because I’ve drained all of your energy out the tip of your dick….. That’s when I’m satisfied.

On April 11th, 2015, Green published a Tumblr post titled "On Discourse," in which he addressed a hateful message sent by someone identifying as a "nerd fighter" and condemned the use of racial slurs and other abusive behavior within online communities. The post was subsequently reblogged and edited by Tumblr user @katara, who replaced Green's text with the copypasta.^[1][2]

Tumblr^[2] blog @heritageposts archived a preserved thread containing the edited version of a post originally published by John Green on his blog, @fishingboatproceeds, with the edited version replacing his text with a sexually explicit copypasta. The archive identifies the post's date of origin as 2015.^[2]

Spread

The copypasta's spread is closely associated with Tumblr's text-editing culture of the early 2010s. Initially conceptualized as a blogging website, the platform allowed its users to fully edit reblogged posts to their liking.

By 2015, users frequently edited the text of reblogged posts by other users, sometimes altering them to make the original poster appear to have said something bizarre or controversial.^[1] John Green, who had a prominent but increasingly controversial presence on Tumblr, became a frequent target of this practice.^[1]

On May 6th, 2015, John Green reblogged the edited post with a response. Rather than deleting the altered text, he changed the title to "NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW" as a warning and explained that he had not written the text.^[1] Tumblr^[3] blog @tyleroakley reblogged Green's response to the edited post, preserving the now-deleted thread. As of 2026, the post has received approximately 266,100 notes.

The incident also became associated with Tumblr's removal of the ability for users to edit the text of other users' posts around August 2015. Some Tumblr users jokingly claimed that the feature had been removed because of what the community had done to Green, particularly the widespread editing of his posts.

On November 5th, 2015, Tumblr^[4] blog @kingofthevastwasteland preserved a post by @jimmyjuniors mocking Green's response, joking about the bestselling author becoming upset after a teenager edited one of his Tumblr posts.

On February 28th, 2016, Reddit^[5] user u/jfb1337 inquired about the incident on r/OutOfTheLoop, generating discussion over the copypasta and John Green's standing on Tumblr at the time.

The copypasta became an enduring fixture of early Tumblr culture, with the Green incident in particular referenced years later as part of the website's extensive lore. The copypasta also continues to resurface periodically.

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