X Grab My Y — Three-panel comic: blonde girl tells Angie to grab her boobs, Angie honks them, then both fly along a rainbow shouting 'Adventure!'

X Grab My Y

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Published October 8, 2026

In January 2009, DeviantART artist Angela Dunn posted a one-page comic where she yelled at a friend to grab her boobs before the pair rocketed into the sky under the word ADVENTURE. The simple two-panel setup turned into an exploitable template that spread across DeviantART, Tumblr and Reddit for years as fans swapped in their own characters and body parts.

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Overview

X Grab My Y is an exploitable two-panel comic built around one character ordering another to grab a specific body part so the pair can blast off into the sky, usually trailed by a rainbow and a single shouted word like ADVENTURE2. The gag depends on the mismatch between the crude command in panel one and the giddy, triumphant lift-off in panel two, which is why fans swap in any pairing of friends, cartoon duos or fandom characters without changing the beats1.

The format is open enough that both halves of the title are variables: the X is whoever is being told to grab, and the Y is whatever body part the shouter wants grabbed. That slot-filling structure is what pushed it into the same lineage as other character-swap exploitables, and it is why search results for simple strings like "grab my boobs" or "grab my" on DeviantART return pages of derivative edits1.

Origin & Background

Platform
DeviantART
Creator
Angela Dunn
Date
2009

On January 23rd, 2009, DeviantART user angelaArt (artist Angela Dunn) uploaded a one-page comic titled ADVENTURE starring herself and fellow DeviantART artist Lizcakes2. In the original panels, Angela shouts "Angie grab my boobs" before the two of them rocket upward with the word ADVENTURE splashed across the sky2.

The comic was not framed as a meme template, it was a quick personal gag between two artist friends, but the simple two-panel structure made it trivially editable. Within days other DeviantART members were rebuilding the same joke with their own friends and body parts, which is how the "X, grab my Y" phrasing became the recognizable shorthand2.

How It Spread

The first derivative landed fast. On January 28th, 2009, only five days after the original, DeviantART member Shadren4ever posted a redraw titled ADVENTURE2 that again paired an artist with a friend (in this case Cheri) following the same grab-and-launch beats2. From there the format settled into DeviantART's fan-art ecosystem, where searches for "grab my boobs" and plain "grab my" still return long lists of user-made versions1.

The comic drifted off DeviantART over the next couple of years. Edits showed up under grab-my-boob tags on Tumblr and in r/funny threads on Reddit, mostly as fandom crossovers rather than original character work2. On July 21st, 2011, a single-topic Tumblr blog called F Yeah X Grab My Y was launched to collect the edits in one place, which gave the format a dedicated archive beyond DeviantART's search index2.

Because the setup works with almost any two-character pairing, X Grab My Y aged into a long-tail exploitable rather than a short viral spike. Know Your Meme compares it to Ooh Mister X for exactly that reason: both formats drop any franchise's characters into a fixed two-panel gag with minimal redrawing required2.

Timeline

2009-01-23

DeviantART user angelaArt (Angela Dunn) uploads ADVENTURE, the original comic with the line "Angie grab my boobs."

2009-01-28

DeviantART member Shadren4ever posts ADVENTURE2, the first known derivative, five days after the original.

2011-07-21

The single-topic Tumblr blog F Yeah X Grab My Y launches to collect edits of the comic.

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