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See You Later Virgins

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Published September 27, 2026

See You Later, Virgins is a 4chan greentext format from January 2018 where anons brag about the flimsiest possible indirect contact with a woman, then sign off with the titular catchphrase. The bit spread through /r/greentext and pairs with sunglasses-Pepe reaction art, becoming a durable template for absurd Chad-cope jokes.

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Overview

See You Later, Virgins is a greentext template built around a punchline of manufactured male superiority. An anonymous poster describes some barely-there brush with a woman, sharing a bus seat, breathing air she also breathed, using the same brand of mouthwash, then closes the story with the sign-off 'see you later, virgins,' as if the interaction just promoted them out of the incel tier1. The joke reads as self-aware Chad cosplay: the flimsier the contact, the funnier the bravado.

On 4chan the stories are frequently paired with edits of Pepe the Frog wearing sunglasses, a visual shorthand for the smug 'I'm out' exit2. The Wojak-in-a-Chad-mask image that launched the format is another common accompanying illustration, since it visually literalizes what the jokes do textually2. Tone matters more than plot in these posts, the delivery mimics greentext bragging conventions while the underlying encounter is almost nothing.

Origin & Background

Platform
4chan / Reddit (viral spread)
Date
2018

The format traces back to January 4th, 2018, when a 4chan user posted an image of Wojak in a Chad mask captioned with the greentext line '>existing in a timeline that has women' followed by 'See you later, virgins'1. A screenshot of the thread was reposted the same day to Reddit's /r/greentext, where it pulled in more than 11,200 points at a 94% upvote rate within a year1.

The original 4chan poster is not publicly identified, which is standard for anonymous imageboard posts2. Later variants dropped the Chad-mask Wojak in favor of sunglasses-Pepe art, but the closing catchphrase stuck as the load-bearing element of the joke2.

How It Spread

Timeline

2018-01-04

A 4chan user posts the Chad-mask Wojak image with the 'See you later, virgins' sign-off; a screenshot hits /r/greentext the same day and clears 11,200 points.

2018-04-11

Redditor Topud submits a mouthwash-themed 'Later Virgins' greentext to /r/greentext, pulling over 1,900 points at 95% upvoted.

2019-01-23

LG_Shala posts the 'neurons' variant to /r/greentext, which climbs past 41,200 points and 200 comments.

2019-02-11

A 'See You Later Virgins' entry riffing on gender fluidity is posted to /r/greentext and breaks 11,400 points at 93% upvoted.

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