About

Piccolo Aura Farming refers to a series of memes about the character Piccolo from Dragon Ball aura farming, often using scenes of him standing in one place with his arms crossed as the wind blows his cape as an example. Memes about Piccolo aura farming date back to as early as November 2024 and grew increasingly popularized throughout 2025. That year, TikToker @truedreams_21 began posting videos and doing TikTok LIVE streams dressed in Piccolo cosplay with a fan blowing his cape, drawing comparisons to NPC streams.

Origin

On November 29th, 2024, Instagram^[1] user mister__manik posted a scene from Dragon Ball Super showing Piccolo standing calmly with his arms crossed as others panic, writing in the description, "aura farming till death," garnering ovr 11,000 likes in nine months. This is one of the earliest known posts to link Piccolo and aura farming.

Spread

Memes about Piccolo aura farming and being the "ultimate aura farmer" continued to spread over the following months.

On December 7th, 2024, TikToker^[2] @tdboyy posted a video compiling footage of Piccolo from the Dragon Ball series fighting, along with a clip of him standing on top of a building with his cape blowing in the wind, captioned, "Top ranked Aura Farmer," garnering over 3.2 million views in eight months.

On December 22nd, YouTuber^[3] goodrichdbs posted a video titled "PICCOLO AURA FARMING" compiling clips of Piccolo aura farming, garnering over 129,000 views in eight months.

On December 25th, 2024, a post about Piccolo aura farming was made to the /r/whowouldcirclejerk^[4] subreddit, garnering over 1,100 upvotes in the same span of time.

On January 9th, 2025, Redditor u/Gokugeta141 posted a screenshot of a tweet to the /r/DragonBallZ^[5] subreddit, writing, "Piccolo is the biggest aura farmer," garnering over 6,500 upvotes in seven months.

On February 24th, X^[6] user @PiccoloGrill posted a GIF of Piccolo's cape blowing in the wind, writing, "Alright, guys. This is how you aura farm," garnering over 71,000 likes in six months.

On August 5th, 2025, TikToker^[7] @r_man9 posted a recorded video of TikToker^[8] @truedreams_21 during a live stream where he dresses as Piccolo and stands still with his back facing the camera as his cape blows, captioning the video, "We really went from npc live streams to mfers aura farming for hours on stream," garnering over 950,000 views in a day.

The meme was reposted by X^[9] user @9372828329a later that day, garnering over 155,000 likes in a day.

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