Crawlingflour
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About
CrawlingFlour is a 9GAG user who gained celebrity status on the platform after asking for context for a Megxit meme. Starting in mid-January 2020, multiple memes about CrawlingFlour complaining about being upvoted and being hailed by 9GAG as a messiah were posted on the platform, similar to WaterGuy12 memes on Reddit.
Origin
On January 13th, 2020, a meme about Megxit made by an unknown user was reposted to 9GAG,[1] gaining over 9,800 points in one week (shown below, left). In the comment section, 9GAG[2] user crawlingflour inquired about the context for the meme by typing "Cap?" (Captain Obvious). After the comment acquired a significant number of points, crawlingflour[3] complained about the upvotes and repeated his request, with more comments by crawlingflour[4][5] complaining about his comments being upvoted being posted in the same thread (shown below, left and right). As of January 20th, 2020, the initial comment received over 1,000 points.
Spread
On January 13th, 2020, a screenshot of crawlingflour's comments was posted on 9GAG,[6] with the post gaining over 8,200 points in one week (shown below, top). On the same day, crawlingflour[7] commented "Fucking hell, my notification keeps adding up," with the comment accumulating over 5,700 points as of January 20th (shown below, bottom).
On January 16th, 2020, a screenshot of that post, with the highly-upvoted comment by crawlingflour included in the screenshot, was posted on 9GAG[8] (shown below, top). The post received over 4,800 points in four days, with crawlingflour[9] commenting "Seriously another post about me?" The comment received over 8,800 points in four days as of January 20th (shown below, bottom).
Starting on January 16th, 2020, multiple of memes about crawlingflour and his comments being mass-upvoted by 9GAG[10][11][12] users were posted on the platform (examples shown below).
On January 20th, 2020, 9GAG[13][14] posted a blog entry about crawlingflour's fame on the platform. On the same day, 9GAG added a crawlingflour sweatshirt to its merchandise store (shown below, top left).
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Search Interest
External References
[1] 9GAG – Future complicated
[2] 9GAG – crawlingflour
[3] 9GAG – crawlingflour
[4] 9GAG – crawlingflour
[5] 9GAG – crawlingflour
[6] 9GAG – Crawlingflour hasnt a good day
[7] 9GAG – crawlingflour
[8] 9GAG – Crwalingflour hasn't a good day-Reloaded
[9] 9GAG – crawlingflour
[10] 9GAG – Crawlingflour has no chill
[11] 9GAG – IN @CRAWLINGFLOUR WE TRUST
[12] 9GAG – All hail the Messiah, crawlingflour!
[13] 9GAG – Meet Crawlingflour, The First 9GAG User Turned 'Celebrity'
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