▼ SURFACED FROM 1,200 M/r9k/ · No.26118303

BLOBO

Normal fish at 1,200 m. Meme at the surface.

First posted on /r9k/ on 29 January 2016, named three days later, confirmed by Know Your Meme. Now on Ethereum, the chain that literally runs on blobs.

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Anonymous 01/29/16(Fri)22:17:19 No.26118303

Blobfish's are litteraly the omega males of the animal kingdom

THE RECEIPTS

No made-up lore. These are the real posts, archived in 2016, typos and all.

Archived /r9k/ post No.26118303 with the first Blobo image
/r9k/ · 29 Jan 2016No.26118303

A thread pitches a snail as the next meme. An anon answers with a blobfish: "the omega males of the animal kingdom." The first Blobo ever posted.

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Archived /r9k/ post No.26186233 reading BLOBO IS NEW MAYMAY
/r9k/ · 1 Feb 2016No.26186233

Three days later, in a thread about a meme called "morzo", the name lands: BLOBO IS NEW MAYMAY.

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/b/ post No.671000000 with Blobo and the caption BLOBO IS NEW MEME
/b/ · 26 Feb 2016 · 15:32:41
No.671000000

On 4chan, a round post number is called a GET, and a GET means the post was meant to be. Post number 671,000,000 on /b/ was Blobo with one line: BLOBO IS NEW MEME. Check 'em.

THE PAPER TRAIL

Know Your Meme only confirms a meme once its origin is documented. Popo and Wofl, the two that already have coins, are still waiting. Blobo has the stamp.

Blobo
CONFIRMED

Origin traced to two archived /r9k/ threads, post numbers and all.

 Popo
SUBMISSION

Still being researched.

 Wofl
SUBMISSION

Still a work in progress.
Even the dictionary

Dictionary.com's entry for "blobfish" names Blobo: the cartoon blobfish that 4chan made popular in 2016.

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Statuses as of November 2026. Click any card to check for yourself.

THE LORE

For two years 4chan tried to replace Pepe with a badly drawn animal. Most sank. One was already at the bottom.

  1. NOV 2014 · /r9k/

    Popo the turtle

    The first try: a sad turtle to replace a frog the normies took.

  2. 2015 · /b/ /r9k/ /s4s/

    Wofl, Fefe

    A wolf in MS Paint. A scorpion with a face. Each one "the new meme."

  3. 28 JAN 2016 · /r9k/

    Frail Snail

    A snail gets pitched as the next big meme. Anons aren't buying it.

  4. 29 JAN 2016 · /r9k/

    The blobfish arrives

    An anon posts a pink blob: reclusive, unattractive, the omega male of the animal kingdom. Exactly what the board needed.

  5. 1 FEB 2016 · /r9k/

    BLOBO IS NEW MAYMAY

    In a thread about "morzo", someone names him. It sticks.

  6. FEB 2016 · EVERYWHERE

    The edits

    Angel Blobo, wizard Blobo, octo Blobo, snowman Blobo. Hundreds of posts across /r9k/, /b/ and /s4s/.

  7. 26 FEB 2016 · /b/

    The 671 million GET

    Post No.671000000 on /b/ is Blobo. The board takes note.

  8. 24 MAR 2016

    Confirmed

    Know Your Meme confirms the entry. Then the internet moves on and Blobo sinks back down.

  9. MAR 2024 · ETHEREUM

    Dencun ships blobs

    EIP-4844 brings "blobs" to Ethereum. Every L2 starts posting data in them. Nobody calls Blobo.

  10. NOW

    Blobo resurfaces

    Ten years at the bottom of the ocean. Same face. Same omega energy. Now onchain.

ETHEREUM RUNS ON BLOBS

This part isn't a joke. Since the Dencun upgrade in March 2024, rollups post their data to Ethereum as "blobs" (EIP-4844). If you've used an L2, you've touched a blob.

EIP-4844

The upgrade that brought blobs to Ethereum. Blobo got there first, by eight years.

Every L2

Base, Arbitrum, Optimism. All of them post their data in blobs. All of them pay rent to the blob.

0 mascots

Ethereum has blobs and no blob mascot. That's the job opening. Blobo applied in 2016.

BLOBO MAKER

Make your own Blobo for your PFP. Every anon needs one.

HEAD

FACE

EXTRA

BACKGROUND

PNG is 1000×1000.

Your Blobo

THE CLASS OF '14–'16

Every "new meme" that tried to follow the frog. Blobo went deepest.

Popo

Turtle · Nov 2014

Sad, slow, a shell to hide in.

Wofl

Wolf · 2015

"and on this day wofl was invented."

Fefe

Scorpion · Apr 2015

A scorpion with a face. Blobo once dressed as her.

Frail Snail

Snail · Jan 2016

Pitched. Rejected. Lost to a fish.

Blobo

Blobfish · Jan 2016

The omega. Lives at 1,200m. Nowhere left to fall.

WHY HE LOOKS LIKE THAT

Real biology. At home, a blobfish looks like a normal fish: it has almost no bones or muscle, and the water pressure holds it together. Pull it to the surface and it collapses into the face you know.

AT 1,200 MAT THE SURFACE
Looks like a normal fishTurns into Blobo
Pressure holds him togetherNo pressure. Falls apart.
Waits on the seabed, barely movesVoted the world's ugliest animal (2013)
Nobody's watchingEveryone's watching

The pressure was never the problem. The surface was.

ROV-02 · DEPTH 1,200 M · 2°C · ● REC
PAPER HANDS?
BLOBO HAS NO HANDS.

TOKENOMICS

Readings go live at launch. Until then, every gauge says TBA.

Supply[TBA]

Posted here at launch. Every number on this site is checkable. This one will be too.

Tax[TBA]

Announced at launch. Blobo has no hands to take it.

Liquidity[TBA]

Details at launch, verifiable on-chain. Same rule as the lore: receipts or it didn't happen.

Contract[TBA]

Goes at the top of this page the day it exists. Not a day before. Anything else is fake.

HOW TO DIVE IN

Four stops on the way down.

Suit up

Get a wallet: MetaMask or Rabby. The seed phrase lives on paper. Not in a screenshot, not in a DM.

Bring ETH

Buy ETH and keep it on Ethereum mainnet. That's where the blobs are.

Swap

On Uniswap, swap ETH for $BLOBO. Copy the contract from the top of this page and nowhere else.

Settle

Rest on the bottom. Blobfish survive by barely moving. Take notes.

OPEN UNISWAP

FAQ

Is Blobo real 4chan lore?

Yes. The first Blobo was posted on /r9k/ on 29 January 2016 (No.26118303) and named on 1 February 2016 (No.26186233). Both posts are archived, and the meme has a confirmed Know Your Meme entry. The archive links, the Know Your Meme status and the full source list are on this page: see Receipts, the Paper Trail and Sources.

Why a blobfish?

Because the anon who posted it said so: reclusive, unattractive, the omega male of the animal kingdom. /r9k/ wanted a mascot that looked like it felt.

Why Ethereum?

Ethereum literally runs on blobs since the Dencun upgrade (EIP-4844). It's the only chain where the mascot is also part of the protocol vocabulary.

Is there a team or a roadmap?

No roadmap. There's an archive, a fish and the anons who post him. $BLOBO is a memecoin with no utility and no promise of anything.

Can I use the Blobo art?

Blobo was drawn anonymously on 4chan and edited by hundreds of anons. Make your own, use the maker above, post them everywhere.

SOURCES · CHECK EVERYTHING