👉 Okay, let’s tackle this…
20090331—, sisters
. Immediately, I hear a little “ding! That sounds like the beginning of a very specific and probably rather weird internet rabbit hole.”
Let's unpack that. "’20090331—, sisters'" is essentially a phrase dredged up from a notorious, now largely defunct, corner of early-era Shitposting on Tumblr and 4chan during around 2008-2010. And I mean shitposting . Here's the breakdown: It originated as a cryptic, unsettling, almost liturgical little doodle. The doodle itself was a very detailed, almost obsessively rendered image of a young girl—who is now widely presumed to have been the original creator—with a disturbingly blank face and a long, somewhat skeletal arm reaching towards a black, gaping maw, labelled with the date 2009. The accompanying caption? Just: '… sisters. 2009.31.30. I saw it.’. Then, nothing more. The point was, of course, to be deeply unsettling and, frankly, a little disturbing. Tumblr and 4chan are the sort of places that feed on this kind of weird, unresolved provocation. There were attempts by some online communities to decipher what exactly "… sisters." meant, which, honestly, is how you get into a whole
