# Garloid

Garloid is a nonsense term 4chan posters applied to an image of a man filling a pig stomach with tap water, pretending the fleshy blob is a known livestock animal. The joke caught on after an anonymous /pol/ post on October 31, 2020 warned readers not to feed their garloids tap water because of fluoride. By June 2021, webcomic artist Flork of Cows was drawing garloid cartoons on Twitter.

## Origin
The source photo predates the meme by nearly a decade. On April 26, 2012, Pete, the home cook behind the WordPress blog "The Pete Is On," published a post titled "Weird Crap I Cook: Ponce" documenting a Cajun recipe that stuffs a pig stomach[1]. One photo shows Pete testing his stitching by holding the stomach under a running kitchen tap, with the opening of the organ engulfing the faucet as if it were drinking[1].

Catalyst event: on October 31, 2020, an anonymous 4chan user uploaded that photo to /pol/ as garloid.png with a caption warning other garloid owners that tap water hurts milk quality because of fluoride[6]. The post is no longer available, but a screenshot titled "Anon deosn't even know what a garloid is LMFAOO" hit /r/4chan the same day and picked up over 250 upvotes and 34 comments in nineteen days[2].

- **Platform:** 4chan /pol/ (origin), Reddit and Twitter (viral spread)
- **Creator:** Unknown
- **Date:** 2020

## Overview
The garloid bit works through confident, uninitiated authority. Posters write about the creature the way a hobby farmer might write about livestock, offering feeding tips and milk quality warnings, while the attached photo shows a gnarled pink mass that reads as an organ rather than an animal[2]. The humor sits in the gap between the matter-of-fact husbandry tone and the fact that no such creature exists.

A common convention involves mocking anyone who asks what a garloid is. Reddit comment chains under the earliest screenshot were full of users pretending the term was common knowledge and scolding the asker for ignorance instead of explaining it[2]. Urban Dictionary doubled down on the bit with a fake definition calling a garloid a bulbous, hairy gut that hangs like a sack[3].

## How to Use
Typical garloid posts caption the pig stomach image with deadpan livestock advice, often warning about feeding, water quality, or breeding conditions. The format also works as a gotcha in replies: when a confused user asks what a garloid is, the common convention is to insult them for not already knowing[2].

## Frequently Asked Questions
### What is Garloid?
Garloid is a nonsense word 4chan posters applied to a photo of a man filling a pig stomach with tap water, pretending the organ is a known livestock animal[6].

### Where did Garloid come from?
The source photo is from an April 26, 2012 Cajun cooking blog post by home cook Pete on the WordPress site "The Pete Is On"[1]. The joke itself started on 4chan's /pol/ on October 31, 2020[2].

### What does Garloid mean?
Nothing literal. The bit is that no such animal exists, and posters pretend otherwise while mocking anyone who asks what a garloid is[3].

### How do you use Garloid?
Caption the pig stomach image with fake livestock husbandry advice, often about feeding or water quality, and insult replies that ask for an explanation[2].

### Is Garloid still popular?
Activity peaked between late 2020 and mid 2021 across 4chan, Reddit, and Twitter; the image lives on as a cursed-image classic in compilations like /r/Cursed_Images[7].

## References
1. [https://peterisadb.wordpress.com/tag/creole/](<https://peterisadb.wordpress.com/tag/creole/>)
2. [https://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments/jlqciq/anon_doesnt_even_know_what_a_garloid_is_lmfaoo/](<https://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments/jlqciq/anon_doesnt_even_know_what_a_garloid_is_lmfaoo/>)
3. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=garloid](<https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=garloid>)
4. [https://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments/jm8iws/anon_gives_a_warning_about_joe_biden/](<https://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments/jm8iws/anon_gives_a_warning_about_joe_biden/>)
5. [https://imgur.com/gallery/VfUOnqn](<https://imgur.com/gallery/VfUOnqn>)
6. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/garloid](<https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/garloid>)
7. [https://www.reddit.com/r/Cursed_Images/comments/nnrvip/cursed_garloid/](<https://www.reddit.com/r/Cursed_Images/comments/nnrvip/cursed_garloid/>)
8. [https://twitter.com/AutoTemplar/status/1405926071489359872](<https://twitter.com/AutoTemplar/status/1405926071489359872>)

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