Chonk Oh Lawd He Comin

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Chonk Oh Lawd He Comin is a 2018 internet catchphrase from a photoshopped chart that ranked cats by body fat with cutesy names, topping out at 'OH LAWD HE COMIN' as the final tier. The chart spread from a Facebook cat group to Twitter and Reddit that August, and the top-tier line broke off into a standalone caption for oversized animals and objects.

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Overview

Chonk Oh Lawd He Comin is an internet catchphrase that came from a photoshopped cat body-fat chart circulated in August 20181. The chart replaced medical terms with cutesy slang, ranking cats from 'A fine boi' on the slim end to 'OH LAWD HE COMIN' at the extremely overweight end4. That final label broke out of the chart on its own, turning into a caption slapped on any oversized cat, animal, or object online7.

The 'Chonk' scale itself pushed a broader vocabulary of 'chonky' and 'chonker' into internet English as affectionate terms for chubby cats1. Fans started rating pets by the chart's tiers on Twitter and Reddit within days of the image going viral2.

How It Spread

Twitter user @dreamlandtea posted the chart on August 10th, 2018, pulling in more than 37,000 retweets and 94,000 likes and inviting replies where she rated followers' cats on the scale1. The image reached Reddit within days, hitting /r/Delightfullychubby on August 13th2 and /r/fatcats three days later3. A dedicated subreddit, /r/chonkers, picked up nearly 400 subscribers inside a month5.

Reposts kept the chart moving through late summer and fall. A Pikachu-tiered edit hit /r/me_irl for over 1,200 points, and a September 29th submission to /r/pics about a coworker who printed the chart for a vet clinic office cleared 13,000 upvotes6.

By October the 'OH LAWD HE COMIN' line had broken away from the chart entirely. On October 4th, 2018, Twitter user @dgahk paired it with a kitten photo and racked up over 64,000 retweets and 171,000 likes7. User @homo_cidal put it on a lizard8, and @TheJWittz applied it to a Snorlax clip that cleared 10,000 likes in under a week9.

How to Use This Meme

The chart format is typically edited by swapping the cat photos for other subjects (Pokémon, celebrities, snacks) while keeping the tier labels intact. The 'OH LAWD HE COMIN' caption is often used on its own, pasted over any image of something enormous rolling into frame, sincerely or as a joke7.

Frequently Asked Questions

Chonk Oh Lawd He Comin

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Chonk Oh Lawd He Comin is a 2018 internet catchphrase from a photoshopped chart that ranked cats by body fat with cutesy names, topping out at 'OH LAWD HE COMIN' as the final tier. The chart spread from a Facebook cat group to Twitter and Reddit that August, and the top-tier line broke off into a standalone caption for oversized animals and objects.

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Overview

Chonk Oh Lawd He Comin is an internet catchphrase that came from a photoshopped cat body-fat chart circulated in August 20181. The chart replaced medical terms with cutesy slang, ranking cats from 'A fine boi' on the slim end to 'OH LAWD HE COMIN' at the extremely overweight end4. That final label broke out of the chart on its own, turning into a caption slapped on any oversized cat, animal, or object online7.

The 'Chonk' scale itself pushed a broader vocabulary of 'chonky' and 'chonker' into internet English as affectionate terms for chubby cats1. Fans started rating pets by the chart's tiers on Twitter and Reddit within days of the image going viral2.

How It Spread

Twitter user @dreamlandtea posted the chart on August 10th, 2018, pulling in more than 37,000 retweets and 94,000 likes and inviting replies where she rated followers' cats on the scale1. The image reached Reddit within days, hitting /r/Delightfullychubby on August 13th2 and /r/fatcats three days later3. A dedicated subreddit, /r/chonkers, picked up nearly 400 subscribers inside a month5.

Reposts kept the chart moving through late summer and fall. A Pikachu-tiered edit hit /r/me_irl for over 1,200 points, and a September 29th submission to /r/pics about a coworker who printed the chart for a vet clinic office cleared 13,000 upvotes6.

By October the 'OH LAWD HE COMIN' line had broken away from the chart entirely. On October 4th, 2018, Twitter user @dgahk paired it with a kitten photo and racked up over 64,000 retweets and 171,000 likes7. User @homo_cidal put it on a lizard8, and @TheJWittz applied it to a Snorlax clip that cleared 10,000 likes in under a week9.

How to Use This Meme

The chart format is typically edited by swapping the cat photos for other subjects (Pokémon, celebrities, snacks) while keeping the tier labels intact. The 'OH LAWD HE COMIN' caption is often used on its own, pasted over any image of something enormous rolling into frame, sincerely or as a joke7.

Frequently Asked Questions