About
Tendies Stories are green text stories featuring a twenty-something man who lives at his mother’s home and constantly demands “tendies” (chicken tenders) in exchange for “good boy points” he has earned by doing chores and taking care of himself. The stories are often accompanied by images of Smug Pepe.
Origin
In October 2014, posters in the /r9k/ (robot 9000) board on 4chan began submitting green text stories featuring an autistic, overweight son who terrorizes his parents into getting him specific foods and frequently complains about “normies” (shown below).[1]
On January 19th, 2015, an /r9k/[7] user submitted a thread asking for posts “putting normies in their place,” to which several users replied with various stories about an adult man who lives with his parents and earns “good boy points” by doing household chores and practicing good hygiene. Other stories contained mentions of the son referring to chicken tenders as “tendies.”
Spread
On January 22nd, a 4chan user submitted a green text story to /r9k/[6] complaining about his mother cleaning his waifu pillow and raising the price of tendies from five “good boy points” to 10 (shown below).
On January 25th, Mumsnet[2] user Janice1975 submitted a post to the parenting message board asking for advice on how to deal with her 22-year-old son who exchanges “good boy points” for “tendies.” The post was subsequently deleted. On January 26th, a screenshot of the Mumsnet thread was submitted to the /r/4chan[3] subreddit, where it gained over 1,000 votes (92% upvoted) and 70 comments in 48 hours.
The same day, a green text story was submitted to the /r9k/ board about a son who urinates all over his mother and her boyfriend in order to acquire tendies (shown below). On January 26th, a screenshot of the post was submitted to the /r/4chan[5] subreddit, where it received more than 1,300 votes (93% upvoted) in the first 24 hours. On January 26th, an anonymous 4chan user submitted a “Chicken Tendies General” thread to the /ck/[4] (cooking) board.
Search Interest
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External References
[1]Imgur – Fucking normies
[3]Reddit – Robots mom and the GBP
[4]Warosu – Chicken Tendies General
[5]Reddit – Robot gets his revenge
[6]4chan – tell mom not to clean my waifu pillow
[7]Archive.moe – Can we get a thread about putting normies in their place?