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There is no original to identify: this spread through many separate posts at once rather than from a first one. ViralWorld holds no copy of it either — what it was, when it spread and what people called it is the record.

Nothing here is claimed to be the first version of this, because research established there was not one — it appeared in many places at once.

Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.

What happens

A blogging service whose defining mechanic was the reblog: sharing meant appending, so a post accumulated a visible chain of additions by strangers. That single decision produced a culture no other platform reproduced, and its 2018 adult-content ban emptied a great deal of it overnight.