Pearl Hates the Irish

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cloveblog not to be that person but i'm really tired of "pearl hates the irish" memes because Pearl's dad is heavily irish-coded and the show has gone out of its way to display the loving father-daughter relationship between pearl and mr krabs, there have been so many episodes about mr krabs doing selfless acts for his daughter but y'all still say "pearl hates the irish" because u don't want to see healthy family relationships in media, you just want to demonize the only well written and complex characters psychoboy777 Look, when a character literally says, and I quote, "the Irish should just f------ die out already" I think it's safe to say that they hate the Irish. Anyway, sure Mr. Krabs does a lot for his daughter Pearl, but we've seen nothing but contempt from Pearl's side, hence the popular fan theory that Pearl's hatred of the Irish stems from her hatred of her father.

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Do you think pearl had girl power? Yes, of course Do you think she effectively utilized girl power by funneling money into illegal paramilitary death squads in Northern Ireland?

VGH. ITs ONE OF THEM THOSE SCUM ONE OF WHAT? WHATS WRONG ITH HEIISH THEY'RE A PLAGUE ON THIS PLANET WHTHTS ROTTING ITTOTHE RIND. AND WTTCH MUST BE O-U-18

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Pearl Hates the Irish refers to a fictional episode of Steven Universe in which the character Pearl expresses intense distaste for the people of Ireland. The joke started with a sarcastic Tumblr post about how the episode was racist, prompting Steven Universe fans to reblog the post saying it wasn't real. The original post was reblogged by several others supporting the hoax.

Origin

On June 21st, Tumblr user peteseeger^[1] posted:

Whatever your political beliefs, I think we can all agree that that episode of Steven Universe where Pearl calls the Irish “a plague on this planet which is slowly rotting it down to the rind and which must be excised” was NOT okay

Whatever your political beliefs, I think we can all agree that that episode of Steven Universe where Pearl calls the Irish "a plague on this planet which is slowly rotting it down to the rind and which must be excised" was NOT okay 3

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This sparked a lengthy Tumblr thread where Steven Universe fand attempted to point out such an episode didn't exist, but the original poster, supported by several users getting in on the joke, never admitted it (examples of the thread shown below).

What episode was that??? peteseeger "Pearl Hates the Irish" edgeprole say what you will but at least it wasn't another Steven's Knife episode howdareyou there wasn't an episode where she said that, I would appreciate y'all not making false accusations

peteseeger "Pearl Hates the Irish" was the highest rated episode in the show's history gOtdamb 29 Elle Michalka Hilary Florido and Katie Mitroff October 16, 2014 2.4 030 Pearl reveals her extreme prejudice against the Irish to Steven and the other gems while responding to a distress alert at Claire's. H-------- you're right! adios-aoidos This is a dark chapter in the history of Steven Universe

captainstrawb This is fake peteseeger No it isn't blackdalek this is fake, using google you can check it. Idk why people hate steven universe so much, but what i really would like to know is why so many queer people are spreading this s---.

On October 4th, 2018, the entire thread was posted to Reddit's /r/tumblr by user derpazard,^[2] gaining over 190 points. YouTube user Cosmocalllucia posted a animation for the episode's title card, gaining over 3,500 views (shown below).

On Tumblr, the meme continues to see use, as people create art and photoshops about the episode and Pearl's hatred for the Irish (examples shown below).