Lobsterism

Lobsterism is a and  centered around  which originated on Boxread's b/nothing board in 2023. The religion was created by webcartoonist and b/nothing "veteran" Max Berkhoff, better known online as GoodM4x, who has been a b/nothing moderator since 2011.

On March 2, 2023, Berkhoff linked a of a sixteen-paragraph essay outlining its purported beliefs and practices, along with its supposed relationship with politics. It was initially "self-contained", with the post quickly engendering 8.7 million views, and became fairly popular on the website after members of the board began spreading it to other parts of Boxread such as b/stupid and b/OK. Berkhoff created b/Lobsterism, a board dedicated to the fictitious religion, later that month.

Lobsterism made its way off Boxread around April 2023—particularly on, , and —and subsequently went viral, with large numbers of online users claiming to be "Lobsterists", the religion's followers. It since has been praised and referenced by various fiction writers and social media personalities.