Spiders Georg

English

Etymology

From a 2013 Tumblr post by Max Lavergne inventing a satirical explanation for a popular urban legend claiming the average person swallows three spiders a year: "Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 [spiders] each day, is an outlier adn[sic] should not have been counted."[1][2]

Proper noun

Spiders Georg (plural Spiders Georgs)

  1. (Internet slang, humorous, statistics) A notional extreme outlier in a population, originally characterized as a cave-dwelling hermit who eats 10,000 spiders per day and thus skews the statistical average for all humanity.
    • 2020 June 3, Lissa Harris, Phillip Pantuso, Roger Hannigan Gilson, “Coronavirus Roundup: Superspreaders May Account for Most COVID-19 Transmission”, in The River‎[1]:
      “The consistent pattern is that the most common number is zero. Most people do not transmit,” said Jamie Lloyd-Smith, another infectious disease specialist, sounding a bit like the statistics meme Spiders Georg.
    • 2023 August 15, Madison Hall, “The average US president has been charged with 2 felonies now, thanks to Trump”, in Business Insider‎[2]:
      He's officially become the "Spiders Georg" of world leaders.
    • 2024, Kai Jac Cordes, “How Many Spiders Would Spiders Georg Have To Eat?”, in Journal of Interdisciplinary Science Topics‎[3], volume XCI, number 24:
      On the day the post was made, the world population was 7,252,764,262 [9]. That would mean that Spiders Georg would have to eat approximately 2.176x1010 spiders per day.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Spiders Georg.

Usage notes

  • Also merged with other phrases as necessary to fit a certain situation, such as Indictments Georg describing American president Donald Trump: see Georg.

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Gavia Baker-Whitelaw, "The itsy bitsy saga of Tumblr’s Spiders Georg", The Daily Dot, 17 November 2013
  2. ^ Sara Roncero-Menendez, "This Meme Is A Reminder You Really Can't Trust Facts You Read On The Internet", Huffington Post, 3 June 2014
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