Gibby Requires Soil — Shirtless bald man leaning on a wooden door with text 'Gibby requires Coochie'

Gibby Requires Soil

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Published November 9, 2026

Gibby Requires Soil / Coochie is a surreal shitpost showing a bald, limbless cutout of Gibby from iCarly floating in a dark hallway asking for soil. Redditor shy_louie uploaded the original image to /r/me_irl on November 19th, 2018, and within weeks the template spawned coochie edits, Windows XP sequels and vaccination jokes across /r/surrealmemes and /r/PewdiepieSubmissions.

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Overview

Fans use Gibby's strange demand as a Mad Libs slot, swapping 'soil' for whatever absurd noun suits the joke1. Variants include 'coochie,' 'that you vaccinate your offspring' and narrative extensions where Gibby actually locates the dirt he was looking for23.

The base image strips Noah Munck's iCarly character of hair, arms and legs, leaving a bald torso suspended in a dim hallway with an angry expression4. That combination of a bare Nickelodeon face and a cryptic one-sentence request fits the house style of /r/surrealmemes, where low-effort cutouts and non-sequitur captions are the whole point2.

Origin & Background

Platform
Reddit (/r/me_irl, /r/surrealmemes)
Creator
shy_louie
Date
2018

Redditor shy_louie uploaded the original 'Gibby requires soil' image to /r/me_irl on November 19th, 2018, where it collected more than 3,300 upvotes over the three years that followed1. The picture shows an angry-faced Gibby, lifted from iCarly screenshots and stripped of hair, hands and feet, suspended in front of a closed door.

Nine days later, on November 28th, 2018, user The_Slav_Superstar uploaded a sequel to /r/surrealmemes titled 'SöïL has been found,' placing Gibby on the Windows XP 'Bliss' hillside beside an open door, a heap of soil and shovels, earning over 900 upvotes2.

How It Spread

On December 13th, 2018, a now-deleted Redditor cross-pollinated the format with another subculture by uploading a photoshopped version reading 'spare coochie ma'am' to /r/PewdiepieSubmissions3. That edit is the earliest documented appearance of the coochie variant, which eventually rivaled the original soil joke in reach4.

The coochie version left Reddit when Instagram page cursedvideoz reshared it in September 2019, racking up more than 13,000 likes over the following two years5. Other offshoots stayed on smaller platforms: on July 9th, 2019, iFunny user Basedbuzzlightyear swapped the caption for 'Gibby requires that you vaccinate your offspring' and gave Gibby a banana to hold and a face on his stomach6.

Sticker and shirt shops picked up the format once the coochie line went viral, with Red Bubble listings selling 'Gibby Requires Coochie' prints that still used shy_louie's original cutout4.

Timeline

2018-11-19

Redditor shy_louie uploads the original 'Gibby requires soil' image to /r/me_irl.

2018-11-28

The_Slav_Superstar posts the Windows XP 'SöïL has been found' sequel to /r/surrealmemes.

2018-12-13

A now-deleted Redditor shares the 'spare coochie ma'am' edit on /r/PewdiepieSubmissions, the earliest known coochie variant.

2019-07-09

IFunny user Basedbuzzlightyear uploads the 'Gibby requires that you vaccinate your offspring' variant.

2019-09

Instagram page cursedvideoz reshares the coochie edit, drawing over 13,000 likes.

How to Use This Meme

A typical edit keeps the original cutout of bald, limbless Gibby and the structure 'Gibby requires ___,' swapping the final noun for something absurd or lewd1. Common conventions include stylized or misspelled captions ('SöïL,' 'cOoChIe'), Windows XP backgrounds for resolution panels, and mild Photoshop surgery on Gibby's body such as moving his face onto his torso26.

Frequently Asked Questions