Milksack

Submission 5,598

About

Milksack refers to a comment submitted by YouTuber Yohana Velasquez as a reply to YouTuber Madhu Mohan asking to "guess the word" for the emojis :glass_of_milk: :handshake:. In March 2019, a screenshot of the exchange gained prominence on the r/comedyheavenheaven subreddit, spawning memes and debate about the subreddit admins.

Origin

On March 12th, 2019, Redditor carterbixler created r/comedyheavenheaven^[1] with the tagline "It's so bad it's ascended twice." That caterbixler posted a screenshot of the Milksack correspondence to r/comedyheavenheaven^[2] (shown below). The post gained 32 points (98% upvoted) in seven months.

Spread

Following the March 12th, 2019 creation of the subreddit, members began commenting milksack on almost every post. On May 26th, Redditor bushi_the_log posted another milksack comment screenshot to r/comedyheavenheaven^[3] and received 369 points (100% upvoted) in five months. (shown below, left). On June 16th, admin carterbixler began getting frustrated with the milk sack content and posted:

This sub isn't limited to milksack it'd pretty cool if we added verity. Verity does not mean posts from comedy heaven. This sub isn't comedy heaven this is its own thing. So if I see any comedy heaven reposts I will remove them. Comedyheavenheaven isn't a karma farm That's all gotta go kill some soy farmers because soy milk is a hoax^[4]

Many Redditors ignored the post or posted nonsensical images with the subject line "not milksack" like Redditor Anthropomorphic's post to r/comedyheavenheaven^[5] on June 29th (shown below, right).

On July 15th, Redditor BigHugeWider gained over 300 points (100 upvoted) for their milksack post to r/comedyheavenheaven^[6] in three months (shown below, left). On July 28, Redditor Lord_Zord posted another milksack image to r/comedyheavenheaven^[7] which accumulated over 270 points (100% upvoted) in three months (shown below, right). On August 26th, Redditor carterbixler became more frustrated with milksack content and threatened to delete the subreddit.^[8] The next day admin carterbixler posted "Hey thank you everyoneI really am loving some of the content on this sub today. Keep up the good work! I think we can declare milksack as dead but it'll forever be remembered and will always be a part of this sub's past."^[9]

On October 12th, 2019, Redditor DontEatTheChapstick posted a documentary about the history of milksack content to r/comedyheavenheaven and in the end pleaded that the admins allow milksack to be posted (shown below). The video received over 180 points (99% upvoted) in 17 days and led DontEatTheChapstick to be made an admin and for miksack content to be unbanned.