Slapping Bags of Soil

About

Slapping Bags of Soil refers to a series of memes that feature expressions of enjoyment over hitting full bags of gardening topsoil (similar to Slapping Bags of Rice).

Origin

On February 11th, 2019, a Redditor, ^[1] who has since deleted their account, posted the earliest available usage of the format. They posted a picture of the SpongeBob SquarePants character Patrick. They captioned the image "when you find soil bags at the supermarket that are ready to be slapped" (shown below).

Precursor

Slapping Bags of Rice

On November 20th, 2013, Twitter user @stephie34^[1] posted the first known reference to the urge online by tweeting, "Slapping a bag of rice is rather therapeutic" (shown below).

On May 28th, 2018, YouTubers Mely and Gabe posted a video of themselves slapping large bags of rice at the supermarket (shown below). The video gained over 700 views in a year.

Spread

The following year, the meme went viral following a post on Rreddit. On March 30th, 2020, Redditor^[2] SharpLemon56 posted a picture of bags of topsoil. They captioned the image, "brain: slap them me: why brain: just do it." The post received more than 113,000 points (95% upvoted) and 1,000 comments in less than two weeks (shown below, left).

The following day, iFunny ^[3] user Yeah_Im_That_Guy posted an image of a woman's buttocks with the caption "what girls think guys want to slap" and a picture of bags at a supermarket with the caption "what guys really want to slap." The post received more than 78,000 reactions and 1,700 comments (shown below, center).

Days later, Redditor^[4] wishe308 posted a similar variation of the meme on the /r/memes subreddit. The post received more than 30,000 points (96% upvoted) and 400 comments in less than 24 hours (shown below, right).

Various Examples

Search Interest

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External References