Blue Waffle: Difference between revisions

'''Blue Waffle''' is term for a fake disease, internet hoax, and [[Shock site|shock image]] coined in 2008. Because of this meme, many people believed that "blue waffle" was an actual [[wikipedia:Sexually_transmitted_infection|STD]] like HIV or gonorrhea (sometimes referred to as "the clap"). Trolls would tell victims to search for an image of a blue waffle on Google's Image Search, only to be surprised by a close-up shot image of a diseased vagina.  

Shock sites were made in response to the popularity blue waffle was getting. Most mirrors consisted of just the image with a small description. The original picture originated on Documenting Reality.

The pictures show a yeast infection stained with an antibacterial triarylmethane dye known as crystal violet. In Trenton, New Jersey, a councilwoman named Kathy McBride fell victim to the hoax during a City Council meeting in 2013, when she received a concerned call from a resident asking what Trenton was doing to combat blue waffle disease.<ref><nowiki>https://www.nj.com/mercer/2013/04/trenton_councilwoman_falls_pre.html</nowiki></ref>

There are many variations of this site, including "Red Pancake" and "Giant Cheese Taco", showing a picture of a diseased anus, possibly infected with anal warts/HPV, and a picture of a diseased ulcerated vagina covered in yellow pus and blood respectively. All of these sites have shut down.

*'''Mirror Link''': web.archive.org/web/20220430190031/bluewaffle.biz