Ideal GF

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About

Ideal GF is an exploitable MS Paint illustration which is altered to depict different types of girlfriends (GFs), which initially gained popularity on 4chan's /r9k/ board.

Origin

On September 29th, 2016, an anonymous 4chan user submitted a post to /r9k/^[2] inviting viewers to submit edited versions of a MS Paint illustration depicting different kinds of GFs (shown below). Prior to being archived, the post gathered upwards of 500 responses.^[2]

Your Ideal Partner

On August 30th, 2015, a thread was submitted to 4chan's /fa/^[1] (fashion) board featuring an exploitable MS Paint image, which many users altered to depict variations of themselves followed by their "ideal partner" (shown below).

Spread

On September 30th, 2016, Redditor Dawk19 submitted a gallery of illustrations from the original /r9k/ thread to the /r/4chan^[4] subreddit. On May 5th, 2017, Twitter user @idiot_teen^[7] tweeted a "Robot GF" illustration, which gathered upwards of 1,600 likes and 700 retweets within three weeks (shown below, left). The same day, @idiot_teen posted a version of the illustration titled "Princess GF" (shown below, right).

On May 17th, the template image was submitted to the TeamFortressTV Forums.^[5] On May 20th, a "perfect GF thread" featuring variations of the image was submitted to /r9k/.^[6] On May 24th, a "Ideal GF" thread was launched on the /bant/ (international/random) board (shown below).^[3]