Poop Fartious

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About

Poop Fartious is an insulting nickname given to Twitter user @tomathius by user @MevansOdyssey after the two had a falling out on the website in early 2022. The nickname stuck to @tomathius for over a year, causing him to angrily lash out at any social media users who said it, which in turn led to an increased usage of the nickname in an example of the Streisand Effect. This led the term to trend in March 2023.

Origin

On February 16th, 2022, Twitter user @tomathius made a post criticizing user @MevansOdyssey after the two had an apparent falling out. MevansOdyssey responded, "Who even are you, bro? YOU leave. Tomathius? More like poop fartious"^[1] (shown below).

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Over the following year, several tweeters began responding to @tomathius' tweets with "poop fartious" jokes and memes. On February 17th, 2022, Twitter user MrSuperGuyMan69^[2] joked about the exchange with a LEGO GIF, gaining 25 retweets and 103 likes in a year (shown below, left). On January 30th, 2023, Twitter user @MangoJarritos^[3] posted a SpongeBob scene while referencing "Poop Fartious" in response to a @tomathius tweet, gaining over 1,100 retweets and 6,200 likes (shown below, right).

On March 18th, 2023, @tomathius made a dramatic post announcing that he would shut down his Twitter account (shown below, left). According to a screenshot from a Discord server apparently run by Tomathius, he announced he would ban anyone who used the phrase (shown below, right).

The unfolding drama led to a surge of memes and discussion, causing "Poop Fartious" to trend on Twitter. On March 20th, Twitter user @ruggyscruggy^[4] made a Biggus Dickus joke about the name, gaining over 50 retweets and 220 likes in less than a day (shown below, left). On March 18th, user @milkystar64^[5] posted a SpongeBob still about the developing drama, gaining over 530 retweets and 3,200 likes in two days (shown below, right).

On March 20th, Tomathius posted a Twitlonger^[6] admitting that he'd been overreacting to the "Poop Fartious" jokes, along with an apology for previous controversies he'd been embroiled in from the past.