Tendies Stories

About

Tendies Stories are green text stories featuring a twenty-something man who lives at his mother's home and constantly demands "tendies" (chicken tenders) in exchange for "good boy points" he has earned by doing chores and taking care of himself. The stories are often accompanied by images of Smug Pepe.

Origin

In October 2014, posters in the /r9k/ (robot 9000) board on 4chan began submitting green text stories featuring an autistic, overweight son who terrorizes his parents into getting him specific foods and frequently complains about 'normies' (shown below).^[1]

On January 19th, 2015, an /r9k/^[7] user submitted a thread asking for posts "putting normies in their place," to which several users replied with various stories about an adult man who lives with his parents and earns "good boy points" by doing household chores and practicing good hygiene. Other stories contained mentions of the son referring to chicken tenders as "tendies."

Spread

On January 22nd, a 4chan user submitted a green text story to /r9k/^[6] complaining about his mother cleaning his waifu pillow and raising the price of tendies from five "good boy points" to 10 (shown below).

On January 25th, Mumsnet^[2] user Janice1975 submitted a post to the parenting message board asking for advice on how to deal with her 22-year-old son who exchanges "good boy points" for "tendies." The post was subsequently deleted. On January 26th, a screenshot of the Mumsnet thread was submitted to the /r/4chan^[3] subreddit, where it gained over 1,000 votes (92% upvoted) and 70 comments in 48 hours.

The same day, a green text story was submitted to the /r9k/ board about a son who urinates all over his mother and her boyfriend in order to acquire tendies (shown below). On January 26th, a screenshot of the post was submitted to the /r/4chan^[5] subreddit, where it received more than 1,300 votes (93% upvoted) in the first 24 hours. On January 26th, an anonymous 4chan user submitted a "Chicken Tendies General" thread to the /ck/^[4] (cooking) board.

#4tendies

On January 29th, 2015, the subreddit /r/4chan was renamed #4tendies in reference to the numerous tendies threads and images being uploaded to the site.

Pretty Princess Points

Pretty Princess Points (also known as PPP) is variation from the tendies threads that feature a twenty-something woman who lives at her parents home and terrorizes her family to fulfill her whims, in addition to perform sexual favors to her father to get "pretty princess points". The first reference to pretty princess points comes from a post on a /rk9/ thread created on January 25th, 2015, featuring an edited version of Smug Pepe with a bow and lipstick, where a users mention "good girl points", and a reply talks about "pretty princess points".^[8] The same day, a similar thread was submitted to the same board that featured a greentext story about a 26 years old woman who had racked up 50 "pretty princess points" and asks her father for a golden bracelet while he responds that the bracelet it's 100 points (shown below).^[9] The same thread featured another greentext story where the same woman demands her brother to see his penis in exchange of 5 "pretty princess points".

On February 1st, 2015, a greentext story was submitted on /r9k/ featuring a girl who got 100 "pretty princess points" by taking a shower with her father.^[10] On February 13th, 2015, a thread submitted on /r9k/ featured a drawing despicting the bracelet story (shown below).^[12] On February 26th, 2015, a /r9k/ user posted more drawings depicting other PPP greentext stories, that would be later used on the "pretty princess points" threads.^[11]

A Plate of Chicken Nuggets

On April 19th, 2016, an anonymous user posted a lengthy rant in a discussion thread about the United States presidential primaries on 4chan's /pol/ (politically incorrect) board^[13]:

Holy shit. My mom came into my room to bring me a plate of chicken nuggets and I literally screamed at her and hit the plate of chicken nuggets out of her hand. She started yelling and swearing at me and I slammed the door on her. I'm so distressed right now I don't know what to do. I didn't mean to do that to my mom but I'm literally in shock from the results tonight. I feel like I'm going to explode. Why the fucking fuck is he losing? This can't be happening. I'm having a fucking breakdown. I don't want to believe the world is so corrupt. I want a future to believe in. I want Bernie to be president and fix this broken country. I cannot fucking deal with this right now. It wasn't supposed to be like this, I thought he was polling well in New York???? This is so fucked.

Search Interest

External References