Jrescargot

**Jrescargot** is an internet meme created by Lord Applesauce, also known as Fetus Boy and as one-half of Jreg Heffley.

Jrescargot consists of two images, both of them depicting at least one snail or slug with Jreg's face edited on them. Both images were created by Fetus in October of 2020, possibly along with Jrtatue, a similarly edited photo which the writer of this article is unable to describe.

Both Jrtatue and Jrescargot were used by Jritter users in their uprising against the r/Jreg subreddit, which they criticized for taking down Fetus Boy's "Jrtatue" for being apparently unrelated to Jreg and his content according to the subreddit moderators despite both Jrtatue and Jrescargot literally having Jreg's face on them.

## Jrtatue and Jrescargot

**Jrtatue**, along with Jrescargot, was originally created by Fetus and was uploaded to both the Jreg Heffley's Twitter account and the r/Jreg subreddit with the intent of acquiring clout on both platforms.

However, despite its popularity on Twitter (37 likes as of January 2021), both it and Jrescargot were taken down from r/Jreg, and Jreg Heffley was temporarily banned from participating in the subreddit. The moderators' justification for this decision was as follows:

> "You can't post snails, cheese, or escargot and claim that they remind you of Jreg. It's too low effort."
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Jritter users were outraged, pointing out that r/Jreg hosted hundreds of political memes that made no mention of Jreg and that Jrtatue and Jrescargot were much more reminiscent of Jreg than the average r/Jreg post.

This led to the Jrescargot Uprising.

## The Uprising

Following the removal of his post, Fetus reposted Jrescargot on the r/Jreg subreddit three more times under various titles, one of them being "*Jrescargot (Fuck you mods statist scum)*".

Jritter users, sympathizing with Jrescargot and its mistreatment, decided to raid r/Jreg with Jrescargot as an act of retaliation. The call to arms was met with enthusiasm, and dozens of Jritter users, many of them being Jreg fans subscribed to the subreddit, began posting the Jrescargot image en masse, some making multiple accounts in order to post more Jrescargot.

r/Jreg moderators began taking down these Jrescargot posts one by one, permanently banning each account that posted it from the subreddit. This did not deter Jritter from posting Jrescargot, and soon the act of posting Jrescargot on r/Jreg with the intent of getting banned from the subreddit become known as an "r/Jreg ban speedrun", due to the promptness with which r/Jreg moderators reacted to Jrescargot posts at the time. u/Nabulangi, a prominent member of Jritter and jrartist (Jreg fanartist) was permanently banned from r/Jreg within 1.5 minutes of posting Jrescargot, while Marcus, the other half of Jreg Heffley, claimed to have gotten banned within 40 seconds of posting Jrescargot. An apparently exasperated r/Jreg moderator claimed that the Jritter users posting Jrescargot were "worse than right wing trolls", despite the content of Jrescargot being harmless compared to the hateful, offensive content typical of "right wing trolls".

## Aftermath

The Uprising eventually died down, and Jrescargot became a symbol of resistance against the tyranny of Reddit moderators while also creating a meme called "snail fascism" as an allusion to the words of the r/Jreg moderator describing Jritter users.

To commemmorate this event, Nabulangi created and posted an artwork with the words "Jritter vs r/Jreg! Jrescargot in the Revolution!". The artwork depicted several Jritter users who participated in the Uprising.

A small resurgence of Jrescargot in r/Jreg occurred on December 21, 2020.

## References

1. ↑ https://twitter.com/JregHeffley/status/1312548641777868801?s=20
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/JregHeffley/status/1312564886342455298?s=20
3. ↑ https://twitter.com/JregHeffley/status/1312765536439341057?s=20
4. ↑ https://twitter.com/JregHeffley/status/1312797526450466817?s=20
5. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/Jreg/comments/j4q08b/jrescargot\_fuck\_you\_mods\_statist\_scum/
6. ↑ https://twitter.com/cezico06/status/1312807655078072321?s=20
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 https://twitter.com/margejritter/status/1313130098736926720?s=20
8. ↑ https://twitter.com/JregUniverse/status/1341157853617373188?s=20