Pee Your Pants

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About

Pee Your Pants is a catchphrase on Tumblr akin to Delete Your Account or Kill Yourself used as a simple way to express disgust at another person. It originally was used as a means of spamming neo-nazi and trans-exclusionary radical feminist (TERF) blogs but has expanded to be used against other certain subcultures on the site.

Precursor

Before becoming a means to spam bloggers one doesn't like, the phrase "pee your pants" was referenced in a pair of popular Sandsverse posts. On November 26th, 2016 Sandsverse poster sandsvendor100^[1] posted a dialogue post with the phrase, gaining over 600 notes (shown below, left). On December 5th, fruitsoftheape100^[2] published an image macro that read "pee your pants" in a post that gained over 53,000 points (shown below, right).

Origin

The earliest known reference to using "Pee Your Pants" as a way to spam neo-nazis appeared on June 20th, 2017 in a post by nazicallout,^[3] who mentioned inflitrating a neo-nazi Discord chat with the phrase "Pee Your Pants" (excerpt shown below).

Spread

Shortly after the term began spreading, discourse about the practice and whether it was in fact encouraging people to kill themselves began spreading on the website, largely to the chagrin of many posters. On June 25th, user Targuzzler^[4] reblogged a conversation including such discourse which gained over 2,700 notes (shown below, left). On July 4th, Tumblr user userboxed^[5] explained the origin of the meme, while mentioning it had been perceived as ableist to people with bladder control problems (shown below, right).

Many of the popular posts regarding the phrase in the ensuing months expressed confusion as to how "pee your pants" became code for "kill yourself" to some Tumblr users. A post by thepillgrums^[6] asking about the phrase's power gained over 39,000 notes (shown below, left). A post by cheercaptain^[7] sarcastically suggested that any phrase using the "(Verb) your (noun)" template was actually Tumblr code for "kill yourself," gaining over 21,000 notes.