You Won't Get Anything Done Hoeing Like That

Submission 42,353

About

You Won't Get Anything Done Hoeing Like That is a reaction image macro based on a subtitle from the 2012 Japanese anime Wolf Children. The image has been used to criticize the behaviors and stereotypes of women online, expressing the belief that acting a specific way will not attract sexual partners.

Origin

On June 25th, 2012, the film Wolf Children premiered in France.^[1] In the film, the character Hana attempts to garden, when Grandpa Nirasaki approaches and corrects her technique (clip below). However, while the line "you won't get anything done hoeing like that" does not appear to be included in the English dub of the film, it may still be in the English subtitles of the Japanese version of the film.

The earliest known usage of the scene with the subtitle was published by iFunny ^[2] user BoneOfKenneth_2016 on August 21st, 2016 (shown below). They captioned the post "When your sister says she's tired of having shitty boyfriends."

Spread

Over the next week, others on iFunny shared the meme, adding new captions that criticize and mock perceived female behavior online. For example, on August 25th, iFunny^[3] user Astor shared a variation with the caption "When you see a girl posting her nudes on Twitter trying to perpetuate women's rights" (shown below, left).

The following week, on September 3rd, Twitter^[4] user @NikoWavy may have tweeted a variation that went viral, but because the image has since been removed, it could not be verified. Following the tweet, others shared variations that had the caption "When you see her going out every weekend on snapchat".

However, the following day, Imgur ^[5] user HaxylForce shared the tweet and received more than 49,000 views and 1,400 points in about three years (shown below, center).

People on Twitter^[7] continued to share the meme, spreading it further. On November 27th, the WorldStarHipHop Twitter^[6] account shared the meme, receiving more than 6,900 likes and 3,100 retweets in less than three years.

The image was also used as a reaction image to various online comments. For example, on January 9th, 2017, Twitter^[6] user @bk17__ replied to a tweet by Tomi Lahren with the image (shown below, right).