# Earth Chan Earth Chan is an anime-style personification of the planet Earth, drawn as a young girl with blue and green hair modeled on a satellite photo. The character started as a Twitter joke in late 2017 and blew up through image macros that riff on the flat-earth conspiracy as a flat-chest gag. ## Overview Earth Chan is an anime-style anthropomorphic take on the planet Earth, drawn as a young girl whose blue and green hair is meant to echo a satellite photo of the globe[1]. She debuted as a throwaway Twitter joke in late 2017 and quickly turned into a full image macro series across DeviantArt and Reddit[2]. Most Earth Chan pictures ride a single running gag: other characters call her 'flat,' which doubles as a jab at the flat-earth conspiracy theory and at the anime trope of girls being self-conscious about their chest size[3]. Later fan art added a surgical mask and pleas to stop polluting, giving the character a lightly environmental edge on top of the original joke[4]. ## How It Spread The character jumped platforms fast. On December 7, 2017, DeviantArt user DatWeirdoWhoLuvsMilk[4] posted a set of Earth Chan drawings with a surgical mask, grafting a pollution angle onto the flat-chest joke. Reddit picked it up next. On December 10, Redditor M4DHouse posted an image macro captioned 'When someone says Earth-Chan is flat,' paired with a screenshot from the anime Blend S of Mafuyu Hoshikawa declaring 'It seems you require a hard education'[5]. Two days later, on December 12, Redditor WatBoi19 posted a comic in which Earth Chan complains to a man in a NASA shirt that 'everybody call me flat,' and he answers 'Don't believe what they said, senpai. You are not flat!' The post pulled over 5,900 points and 280 comments on /r/animemes within a day[3]. Once it landed on /r/animemes, Earth Chan settled in as a stock reference character for any flat-earth joke on the anime side of Reddit and became a small cottage industry of fan art and Rule 34 riffs[6]. ## How to Use An Earth Chan image typically shows the character upset about being called flat, with a defender, often a NASA fan, scientist, or anime senpai, reassuring her that the planet is round[1]. Common conventions include the blue-and-green pigtails, a green jacket, and the 'I'm not flat!' line. Environmental spins often add a surgical mask or a message about pollution[4]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Earth Chan? An anime-style personification of the planet Earth, drawn as a young girl with blue-and-green hair modeled on a satellite view of the globe[5]. ### Where did Earth Chan come from? Twitter user @Trinimmortal joked about the concept on November 30, 2017, and @felipecunhaeloi drew the first illustration on December 4, 2017[1][2]. ### What does Earth Chan mean? She is a visual pun on the flat-earth conspiracy, using the anime trope of girls being teased about a flat chest to insist that the real Earth is not flat[3]. ### How do you use Earth Chan? The format is an image macro where Earth Chan complains about being called flat and another character defends her, often with an anime reaction shot like the Blend S 'hard education' panel[5]. ### Is Earth Chan still popular? She became a fixture of /r/animemes fan art and a stock reference whenever flat-earth jokes come up in anime spaces[3][6]. ## References 1. [https://twitter.com/Trinimmortal]() 2. [https://twitter.com/felipecunhaeloi]() 3. [https://www.reddit.com/r/animemes/]() 4. [https://www.deviantart.com/datweirdowholuvsmilk]() 5. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/earth-chan]() 6. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Earth%20Chan]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/earth-chan Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library