Zombietwt

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Cuke edtwt @cukencayenne Baby's first ground apple #zombietwt Feat. worm hole (?) :) 1:27 PM - Aug 4, 2024. 10.9 Views ...

KRAAAZE @DOPAMINE HITZ 90% full energy drink let's f------ go!! #zombietwt 4:36 AM - Aug 3, 2024 21.6K Views

half eaten sandwich roll u found or ground lollipop w the dirt lol 13:17 03.08.24 From Earth 894 Views

Cruddy Mary..... @CruddyMary the classic GREEN bread mold. tastes dusty even if the breads wet and you can feel the spores hit the back of your throat. tastes kinda like dirt and rot and the bread turns alcoholic. mold taste permeates through the whole bread. 5 stars 7:02 AM - Aug 1, 2024 - 12.2K Views

Cruddy Mary @CruddyMary #zombietwt look how ripe my bread is omfgggg non infected say this is a health hazard

rot @DIGITALPRINCESS so i just found out theres a thing called zombietwt and basically they eat moldy things or find things like opened beers or like other stuff people just abandoned on ghe street or dropped. and they eat it. and i wish i was kidding 6:43 PM - Aug 6, 2024 - 3.5M Views

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About

Zombietwt is an X / Twitter community collected under the hashtag "#zombietwt" for users who eat moldy or otherwise traditionally undesirable food, such as discarded food. Frequently, these users also roleplay as zombies. Some have eating disorders that lead them to eat this type of food, including pica, which is a condition denoted by the desire to eat things that are not considered food. The trend was purportedly started by X user @CruddyMary. While the hashtag "#xombietwt" has existed since as early as August 2020 among people roleplaying as zombies, it was popularized in relation to people with eating disorders in March 2024.

Origin

The earliest known use of the hashtag "#zombietwt" was posted by X^[1] user @neroenjoyers, with numerous other X^[2] users using the tag over the following years, although they seem to be in relation to simply roleplaying as zombies rather than eating traditionally undesirable food.

The earliest known post relating to #zombietwt in regards to eating disorders was posted by X^[3] user @CruddyMary on March 20th, 2024, in which she responded to a video of someone making a questionable dish captioned, "Mealspo for my zombie oomf," and writing, "I've had this twice w increasing amts of choc biscuits," garnering over 35 likes in five months. On March 27th, she made one of the earliest posts to X^[4] to use the #zombietwt, in which she roleplays as a zombie (shown below).

Cruddy Mary @CruddyMary calling card thing 4 #zombietwt zombified for 2 yrs now zombie food influencer. i do NOT make food for alive tastebuds Imao. i like rotting brains more than fresh ones i find victims by smell and sound, my eyesights s--- rtwt to b moots or if you wanna offer ur brain. 10:14 AM Mar 27, 2024 6,840 Views

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Over the following months, X user @CruddyMary continued to post using the hashtag #zombietwt, often posting about her meals. For example, on April 11th, 2024, she posted a "this or that" thread to X^[5] consisting of choices for zombietwt users regarding what they'd rather eat, claiming she ate a plate of raw fish, garnering over 1,100 likes in four months (shown below).

Cruddy Mary a whole fish head, @CruddyMary Apr 11 or this half eaten (and wet) candy you found on the ground 15 HARIN 173 47 25K 1 Cruddy Mary @CruddyMary choose fish head germy ground candy 8,136 votes - Final results 25% 75%

***Cruddy Mary..... kinda molding parsnip, or tea made with rotten milk @CruddyMary - Apr 11 also FUN FACT! when milk curdles n rots the protein kinda break away frm the rest of the milk giving it a cool pattern? A 175 39 lil 19K ㅁ Cruddy Mary @CruddyMary choose molding parsnip bad milk tea 6,217 votes - Final results 12:53 AM - Apr 11, 2024 18.2K Views 82.3% 17.7%

The community grew throughout 2024. On April 14th, X^[6] user @_cottagecals_ posted a thread further explaining zombietwt for people out of the know, explaining that some members have eating disorders and listing some members of the community (shown below, left to right).

Ari @_cottagecals_ • Apr 14 WHAT THE HECK IS ZOMBIETWT??? a thread for edtwt (and others who are totally lost) (this thread contains O grosspo) 35 240 899 ill 58K ☐ 1 Ari @_cottagecals • Apr 14 By now, a lot of edtwt has noticed the formation of zombietwt, and there are a lot of misconceptions about it that I'd like to clear up :) Q1 Ari 27 76 @_cottagecals - Apr 14 Il 11K ☐ 1 I'll start at the big one: why so much GROSSPO!! For those of us with sensitive stomachs (myself included, actually) it can be easy to write all of zombietwt off as a grosspo community- but this misconception comes from our primary founder @CruddyMary (The OG Zombie) Q1 91 Ari ***. @_cottagecals_ . Apr 14 11K ធ Mary is suffering from a condition we have collectively termed "reverse arfid". She commonly eats just about any food/nonfood combination- mold, candy from the ground, leftovers from the trash, etc. This disorder stems from a fear of food waste. She is also a murder survivor. Ari 178 113 @_cottagecals_ . Apr 14 lil 14K Due to her own life experiences, she resonated with a "zombie" persona, and when she posted about it, it caught the attention of others who had similar feelings or stories. Thus, zombietwt was born! 173 89 11K

Ari ****.. @_cottagecals_ . Apr 14 Mary's popularity and status within zombietwt means that a lot of her posts are people's first exposure to the community- but not every zombie eats grosspo (or even has interest in grosspo in general) ○ 2 271 77 ill 10K 1 Ari *****.. @_cottagecals_ Zombietwt is made up of people who identify in some way with zombies, for several different reasons. Most commonly, our zombies have pica, an ed which causes the eating of inedible materials (mold, bugs, plastic). Other zombies (like myself) are murder survivors. 12:24 PM Apr 14, 2024 - 10.8K Views 3 179 Post your reply 103 ☐ 11 1 Reply Ari @_cottagecals_ • Apr 14 A lot of our zombie community struggles with other food related issues, like BED or intense fears of food waste. These cause the very zombielike feeling of being always hungry and/or unable to resist. Ari 172 @_cottagecals 88 Apr 14 ili 9.3K A few of us suffer from cotards syndrome, or other mental illnesses which make us feel like the walking dead. Still more just like the unique vibe and friendly community provided by their fellow zombs :)

Ari ***. @_cottagecals_ . Apr 14 There is a major overlap between zombietwt and edtwt due to the grosspo aspect, the pica havers, etc. but not all zombies even HAVE an ed! Several zombies don't interact with edtwt at all outside of other zombies, so its a very unique and diverse community :) 221 77 7.5K ធ Ari @_cottagecals_ · Apr 14 There can be an rp aspect to zombietwt but its not actually as common as you may think, though many of us do have an OC (original character) or zombiesona (zombie character meant to represent us) that we reference or share with one another just because it's fun :) Q1 27 53 ill 6.7K Ari **@_cottagecals_ • Apr 14 Zombies are kind, supportive, unique and very welcoming, so if you read this and found yourself thinking about the community being a good fit, feel free to stick around! (We might bite you though, no promises!) 75 ill 6.3K 1 Ari @_cottagecals • Apr 14 Zombies @CruddyMary @girlthingloves @genitalgash @Al3xd1d1t @jules_bones @xzombabex @braineaterchan 4 27 3 35 ill 6.8K 1 ...

On August 6th, 2024, X^[7] user @DIGlTALPRINCESS posted, "so I just found out there's a thing called zombietwt and basically they eat moldy things or find things like opened beers or like other stuff people just abandoned on the street or dropped. and they eat it. and I wish I was kidding," garnering over 96,000 likes in two days (shown below).