Poorfag

poorf-g or poorf-g-chan is a character inspired by the anime puella magi madoka magica.

on january 28th, in a discussion topic on 4chan’s website about the fourth episode of the series, one anonymous user noticed that during a clip showing madoka’s cl-ss, everyone in the cl-ssroom had laptop computers except for one girl.

the first reply to this post was, “f-cking poorf-g writing on paper.” which led to a huge discussion of the character and thus poorf-g-chan was born. the same day, her macro was created. despite her being a character seen only in the background of a few episodes and frequently being left out of artbooks, poorf-g-chan gained her own popularity as a character.

there’s a lot of various theories, stories, comics, and fanworks crafted around poorf-g-chan. she is generally depicted as an innocent character who makes the best of her circ-mstances. a lot of poorf-g-chan threads also depict her as an orphan with her often telling stories to her mother in heaven. another popular claim is that she lives in a cardboard box and were she to become a puella magi and later on a witch, her outfit would consist mostly of garbage.

though this was originally a trend that started on 4chan, it also gained the attention of j-panese fans who call her call her 貧乏ちゃん (binbō-chan, translated as poor-chan).
poorf-gs gonna poor.