Spiders Georg

English Etymology From a 2013 Tumblr post by Max Lavergne inventing a satirical explanation for a popular urban legend claiming that 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 should not have been counted."en 2023-11-17 Gavia Baker-Whitelaw The itsy bitsy saga of Tumblr’s Spiders Georg w:The Daily Dot https://www.dailydot.com/pop-culture/fandom/spiders-georg-tumblr-post-meme/ https://web.archive.org/web/20250810235104/https://www.dailydot.com/pop-culture/fandom/spiders-georg-tumblr-post-meme/ 10 August 2025en 2013-06-03 Sara Roncero-Menendez This Meme Is A Reminder You Really Can't Trust Facts You Read On The Internet w:Huffington Post https://www.huffpost.com/entry/spiders-georg-meme_n_5412861 Proper noun Spiders Georg s en Internet slang humorous 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. en 2020-06-03 Lissa Harris; Phillip Pantuso; Roger Hannigan Gilson Coronavirus Roundup: Superspreaders May Account for Most COVID-19 Transmission The River https://www.chronogram.com/river-newsroom/coronavirus-roundup-superspreaders-may-account-for-most-covid-19-transmission-18194473 “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. https://web.archive.org/web/20251126125553/https://www.chronogram.com/river-newsroom/coronavirus-roundup-superspreaders-may-account-for-most-covid-19-transmission-18194473/ 26 November 2025 en 2023-08-15 Madison Hall The average US president has been charged with 2 felonies now, thanks to Trump w:Business Insider https://www.businessinsider.com/average-us-president-charged-with-2-felonies-now-trump-2023-8 He's officially become the "Spiders Georg" of world leaders. https://web.archive.org/web/20260817174835/https://www.businessinsider.com/average-us-president-charged-with-2-felonies-now-trump-2023-8 17 August 2026 en 2024 Kai Jac Cordes How Many Spiders Would Spiders Georg Have To Eat? Journal of Interdisciplinary Science Topics XCI 24 https://journals.le.ac.uk/index.php/jist/article/view/4659 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. en Usage notes Also merged with other phrases as necessary to fit a certain situation, such as en Indictments Georg describing American president Indictments against Donald Trump Donald Trump: see en Georg. Derived terms en Georg References en Fictional characters Statistics Tumblr