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Thirsty Boy refers to jokes made about a tweeted scenario in which a presenter at a conference accidentally leaves his microphone on while using the bathroom, resulting in the entire conference hearing him call the urinal "thirsty boy."

Origin

On February 17th, 2016, @bea_ker tweeted^[1] "Just went for a piss while still wearing my microphone and the whole conference heard me call the urinal a 'thirsty boy.'" The tweet gained over 5,300 retweets in one year.

Spread

The tweet was fairly popular outside of Twitter as well. It was posted to Tumblr by dinugan,^[2] whose account has since been deleted or altered. There, it gained over 185,000 notes. On October 26th of that year, Twitter user @TheTomSka^[3] posted a joke about the incident that gained 262 retweets.

The tweet became extremely popular on me_irl on March 1st, 2017. On the 28th of February, hi_im_cj^[4] posted a screenshot of the tweet and gained over 20,400 karma in less than a day. This led to the creation of several image macros where a urinal assumed the character "thirsty boy." One popular example gained over 13.2 karma points.^[5]

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