# Cock And Ball Torture Cock and Ball Torture, or CBT, is a copypasta and audio meme built around the Wikipedia article describing the sexual practice of the same name. The joke leans on incongruity, using a clinical encyclopedia entry as a punchline, and picked up major traction from 2015 through 2019 across Reddit, Twitter, iFunny, and Instagram. ## Overview Cock and Ball Torture, usually shortened to CBT, is a copypasta and audio meme centered on the Wikipedia entry for the sexual practice of applying pain or constriction to male genitals[1]. The comedic engine is pure incongruity, a straight faced encyclopedia article about a taboo topic dropped into unrelated conversations or read aloud in a calm, professorial voice[3]. The joke took hold in the late 2010s across Reddit, Twitter, Instagram, iFunny, and YouTube, powered by an audio narration hosted on Wikipedia and a dedicated Twitter bot that tweets excerpts every day[2]. By 2019, the phrase itself was being deployed as a stand alone punchline in image edits and captions[4]. Urban Dictionary entries from the same era define CBT colloquially as the act of punishing the genitals, which mirrors the deadpan tone of the Wikipedia source text[5]. ## How It Spread On February 22, 2015, a Coub user going by idiot joke teen posted a clip of teenagers playing the Wikipedia audio out loud in an elevator, one of the earliest documented prank uses of the recording[4]. Around the same time, the article text itself started circulating as a Reddit copypasta. On July 26, 2016, the @cockandballbot Twitter account launched, tweeting a fresh quote from the entry every day, and eventually posting more than 32,700 tweets pulled from the article[2]. YouTube user Tanyathsus reuploaded the audio narration on January 24, 2017, where it drew over 18,000 views within two years[3]. An upvoted comment under the video reminisced about kids blasting the recording on random middle school computers[3]. In May 2017, Instagram user seth.v.2 posted a four panel meme featuring Minecraft's Steve character, which another user re edited to include a shot of Steve stabbing Herobrine over the Wikipedia entry. Redditor PKNessStorm reposted that edit to r/4PanelCringe on June 2, 2017, where it pulled more than 900 upvotes[4]. Momentum grew through 2018 with image macros like an anonymous Imgur user's Crash Team Racing cover that swapped "CTR" for "CBT: Cock and Ball Torture," and a Peter Griffin edit posted by The_Great_Curve to r/okbuddyretard on June 5, 2018. Starting in December 2018 and peaking in January 2019, the phrase saw a fresh surge as a rug pull punchline across iFunny, Instagram, and Reddit's ironic humor subs[4]. ## How to Use The template is usually a bait and switch. Common conventions include dropping the Wikipedia excerpt as a copypasta reply, playing the audio narration as a public prank, or swapping a familiar acronym for CBT in a logo edit (CTR to CBT being the most cited example)[4]. Caption memes often set up a mundane scenario and reveal cock and ball torture as the punchline, mimicking the deadpan register of the source text[5]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Cock And Ball Torture? As a meme, it is a copypasta and audio joke built around the Wikipedia article on the sexual practice, used as a deadpan punchline online[1]. ### Where did Cock And Ball Torture come from? The Wikipedia entry was written in July 2004, but the meme really began in March 2010 when a narrated audio version was uploaded to Wikipedia by user FSII[1]. ### What does Cock And Ball Torture mean? In meme use, it works as an incongruity gag, quoting or referencing a clinical Wikipedia article about male genital pain as a shock punchline[5]. ### How do you use Cock And Ball Torture? People typically drop the Wikipedia text as a copypasta reply, play the audio narration as a prank, or edit CBT into logo swaps and caption bait and switches[4]. ### Is Cock And Ball Torture still popular? The biggest surge came in January 2019 across iFunny, Instagram, and Reddit, and the @cockandballbot Twitter account kept posting daily excerpts long after that peak[2]. ## References 1. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cock_and_ball_torture]() 2. [https://twitter.com/cockandballbot]() 3. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h79nFjdyigo]() 4. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cock-and-ball-torture]() 5. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Cock%20And%20Ball%20Torture]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/cock-and-ball-torture Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library