# Thicc Thicc is slang for curvy, hourglass-shaped bodies that jumped from African American Vernacular English into online hip hop talk, then flipped into an ironic meme by mid-2015 when Twitter and 4chan users started slapping the label on cartoon characters and chubby video game NPCs. The joke snowballed through 2015 and 2016 into one of the defining shitposting formats of that stretch of the internet. ## Origin The word "thicc" is African American Vernacular English, in regular street use since the early 2000s. The earliest documented online appearance flagged by Know Your Meme is an Angelfire tribute page for hip hop artists dated November 4th, 2004[1]. The ironic internet meaning took another decade to arrive. On October 13th, 2015, Urban Dictionary user thiccbitchrivermonster posted what is cited as the first definition of the spelling, framing it as slang for "a very seductive female with a large ass"[7]. Nine days later, on October 22nd, 2015, Twitter user @miliondollameat posted a screenshot of SpongeBob SquarePants character Bubble Bass with the caption "lowkey thicc," and that tweet, roughly 3,200 retweets and 4,200 likes deep, is usually treated as the moment the ironic version broke containment[6]. - **Platform:** AAVE slang / Twitter and 4chan (ironic meme spread) - **Creator:** Unknown - **Date:** 2004 ## Overview Thicc is a respelling of "thick," used to describe a woman with wide hips and a pronounced rear in the same spirit as "dat ass"[1]. The double-C spelling started as straight hip hop slang but got lifted into shitpost territory around 2015, when posters began applying it with heavy irony to cartoon characters, video game NPCs and anything else with a visible silhouette[2]. The meme version works on contrast. Posters attach "thicc" to subjects that are not supposed to be sexualized at all, like SpongeBob side characters or Dark Souls enemies, and let the mismatch do the comedic work[3]. On 4chan's /v/ board the term got welded to a running bit about "Thick Thursday" porn threads and the Big Beautiful Woman fans who filled them, producing a set of reaction comics that became exploitable templates for teasing anyone who thirsted after chubby fictional characters[4]. By early 2016 the word was common enough that Redditors were asking what it meant on /r/OutOfTheLoop, and YouTubers were building entire videos around the gag[5]. The spelling stuck because the extra C flagged the usage as a joke rather than a sincere compliment, letting people deploy it on Bubble Bass without sounding like they meant it[6]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Thicc? Thicc is a joking respelling of "thick," slang for a curvy, hourglass-shaped figure with wide hips, used online as both a compliment and an ironic reaction label[7]. ### Where did Thicc come from? The word is African American Vernacular English dating to the early 2000s, with an Angelfire hip hop tribute page from November 4th, 2004 cited as the earliest documented online use[1]. ### What does Thicc mean? It describes a voluptuous body with a large rear and large thighs, per the Urban Dictionary entry filed on October 13th, 2015[7]. ### How do you use Thicc? Online it is typically slapped onto curvy or chubby subjects, often fictional characters like Bubble Bass or video game NPCs, where the mismatch is the joke[6]. ### Is Thicc still popular? The ironic meme peaked in late 2015 and 2016 with viral posts and the Dark Souls III "Thicc Souls" video, and the word is still in common slang use since then[1]. ## References 1. [https://www.angelfire.com/oh4/dranazpage/sexyniggaz.html]() 2. [https://twitter.com/miliondollameat/status/657297509405052928]() 3. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Thicc]() 4. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/thicc]() 5. [https://twitter.com/larcenous/status/685498941559959552]() 6. [https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/4gr8g5/what_does_thicc_mean/]() 7. [https://web.archive.org/web/20170519080914/https://boards.fireden.net/v/thread/316033830/#316044530]() 8. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2efQKVlkwc]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/thicc Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library