{{Short description|Fictional Brazilian creature}}{{Distinguish|Chupacabra}}{{Infobox character | creator = TV Maresol | based_on = [[Slenderman]] }} {{italic title}} '''Chupa-Cu''' ('''Ass-Sucker'''), also known as '''Chupa-Cu de Goianinha''', is a fictional creature akin to the [[chupacabra]] and [[Slenderman]].<ref name="Sacis"/> Created in February 2017 by Renan Ribeiro, owner of the TV Maresol profile, the character he invented quickly gained repercussion in the Brazilian internet scene.<ref name="UFPB">{{cite web |title=O Estranho Caso do Chupa-Cu|url=https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/bitstream/123456789/26768/1/IFA13042023.pdf |access-date=15 October 2024 |website=Federal University of Paraíba |date=2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240409160204/https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/bitstream/123456789/26768/1/IFA13042023.pdf |archive-date=9 April 2024 }}</ref>
==Origins== Renan Ribeiro first concocted the idea of the Chupa-Cu in February 2017.<ref name="Brechando">{{cite news |last1=Paiva |first1=Lara |title=O Brechando entrevistou o criador do Chupa-Cu da Goianinha |url=https://brechando.com/2017/02/22/o-que-e-o-chupa-cu-de-goianinha-e-uma-trollagem/ |work=Brechando |date=February 22, 2017 |language=pt-br}}</ref> The creature is defined as a "sort of extraterrestrial being mixed with a porn actor" who attacked people in the inland village of [[Goianinha]], [[Rio Grande do Norte]], abusing the population in unconventional ways, by sucking the anuses of the victims.<ref name="UFPB"/> The first reference to Chupa-Cu emerged on February 17, 2017, on TV Maresol's [[Twitter]] profile. TV Maresol is a fictional television channel in Rio Grande do Norte which was created due to the rise of other satirical Twitter profiles, among them Jornal Metrópole, to which TV Maresol is affiliated to.<ref name="Brechando"/>
Renan chose Goianinha as the first thing that came from his mind, and the Chupa-Cu helped increase the number of followers on his profile; in two days, TV Maresol went from 150 followers to 1200, and other websites such as [[BuzzFeed]] Brazil started talking about the subject.<ref name="Brechando"/> The creature is also correlated with the Tupi-Guarani myth of the [[Kurupi|Kurupí]], a creature with a large penis, who had a similar function to the Chupa-Cu, and the Ataíde of [[Bragança, Pará|Bragança]]. A similar indigenous narrative, the {{lang|pt|diabo sem cu}} (Assless Devil) circulated on social media in 2016, as means of debauchery.<ref name="Sacis"/>
Fictionally, as soon as the Goianinha Chupa-Cu sightings began to viralize, reports of sightings in other parts of Brazil becan to circulate on Twitter.<ref name="Sensacionalista">{{cite web |title=Saiba tudo sobre o Chupa-cu de Goianinha, uma história que nem o Sensacionalista conseguiria inventar|url=http://www.sensacionalista.com.br/2017/02/20/saiba-tudo-sobre-o-chupa-cu-de-goianinha-uma-historia-que-nem-o-sensacionalista-conseguiria-inventar/ |access-date=15 October 2024 |website=Sensacionalista |date=20 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190423005641/http://www.sensacionalista.com.br/2017/02/20/saiba-tudo-sobre-o-chupa-cu-de-goianinha-uma-historia-que-nem-o-sensacionalista-conseguiria-inventar/ |archive-date=23 April 2019 }}</ref>
On October 22, 2017, a Twitter profile impersonating UOL Notícias posted a story about a supposed sighting in [[Manaus]], causing collective hysteria in Manaus.<ref name="Sacis">{{cite web |title=O imaginário e o cu – a anatomia dos mitos para além dos memes do "Chupa Cu de Goianinha"|url=https://colecionadordesacis.com.br/2017/10/24/anatomia-dos-mitos/ |access-date=15 October 2024 |website=Colecionador de Sacis |date=24 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325114323/https://colecionadordesacis.com.br/2017/10/24/anatomia-dos-mitos/ |archive-date=25 March 2022 }}</ref>
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