# Malfoid origin and timeline | Malfoid Wiki

Canonical page: https://malfoid.wiki/origin
Last updated: 2026-10-09

The Malfoid origin is a drawing by artist @redteneri posted on September 22, 2026: a girl Draco Malfoy mocking Harry. It passed 100,000 likes and hundreds of artists followed.

## Key facts
- Malfoid origin point: September 22, 2026, 14:03 UTC
- The post: @redteneri on X
- Trending on X: September 29 and October 5
- First fan game: October 1, 2026

## The Malfoid origin in one paragraph

The Malfoid origin has three layers, and most retellings mix them up. Girl versions of Draco have existed since at least 2011. The word Malfoid first showed up in January 2026, with no drawing attached. The trend itself, the thing everyone saw, started on September 22, 2026, when artist @redteneri posted a girl Draco mocking Harry in the corridor [2]. Every date in this Malfoid origin story comes from the posts themselves, in UTC.

> @redteneri: (image) (https://x.com/redteneri/status/2102398387194626330, 171K likes as of 2026-10-09)

## Malfoid origin timeline

The early steps of the Malfoid origin come from Know Your Meme's research [1]. From September on, every time is the post's own timestamp in UTC, and the like counts beside the cards refresh every day.

- **Nov 9, 2011** The earliest known girl Draco: Tumblr user maariaaargh posts a female Draco drawing, fifteen years before the Malfoid origin. It collects a few hundred likes and stays a niche joke.
- **Mar 10, 2024, 10:21** If malfoy was a girl: @grizz056 posts two drawings, one smug and one flustered. It now has about 96,000 likes, and still nobody has a name for her.
  > @grizz056: If malfoy was a girl (https://x.com/grizz056/status/1766771258178613565, 96K likes as of 2026-10-09)
- **Jan 10, 2026** The word appears: X user @swag_chaser writes Malfoid in a text-only post, the earliest known use, with no drawing attached.
- **Sep 8, 2026** Shut up malfoid: A TikTok animation uses the phrase about Draco himself, still a boy.
- **Sep 22, 14:03** The Malfoid origin point: @redteneri posts a girl Draco asking since when Potter is a top student. It now has about 170,000 likes.
  > @redteneri: (image) (https://x.com/redteneri/status/2102398387194626330, 171K likes as of 2026-10-09)
- **Sep 26, 21:44** Training for the ballet, Potter?: @redteneri follows up four days later, about 45,000 likes, and the joke becomes a running character.
- **Sep 27, 14:36** The love triangle: @spaz141 adds Hermione. Other artists start treating the idea as a format they can join.
- **Sep 29, 21:11** The three-pose sheet: @masoq095 posts a smirk, a pout and a blush on one page. It now has about 124,000 likes.
  > @masoq095: malfoid (https://x.com/masoq095/status/2105042738517295257, 124K likes as of 2026-10-09)
- **Sep 29, 21:54** First X trending topic: X opens “Fans reimagine Draco Malfoy as anime girl Malfoid”, 43 minutes after the masoq095 post.
- **Oct 1, 12:17** The first fan game: COCOLEMON announces Pureblood & Prejudice, a free Malfoid dating sim. That evening masoq095 posts the golden trio comic, about 112,000 likes.
- **Oct 2** Comics and a second game: avrana releases Draconia, fully voiced in twelve languages. Janggondan, Sachi_Hwa and xin_cere_art post comics and an animation that become some of the most shared pieces.
- **Oct 3 to 5** The backlash: A thread on r/AO3 questions the name, and artist Yunayu is reported to have deleted her Bluesky account after harassment.
- **Oct 5, 19:57** Second X trending topic: This time the topic is “flirty” Malfoid, the same day sigmman starts the Patronus comics.
- **Oct 6, 11:52** Yunayu posts on X: Her drawing passes 120,000 likes, one of the biggest posts of the whole Malfoid trend.
  > @yunayuispink: (image) (https://x.com/yunayuispink/status/2107438962075980257, 120K likes as of 2026-10-09)
- **Oct 7, 14:14** 女体化マルフォイ: Japanese artist naohrw7 tags a quiet portrait with the Japanese name, and sigmman posts the third Patronus comic.

The two trending topics are X's own summaries [3] [7], the game dates come from their itch.io pages [4] [5], and the Yunayu story is told in detail by Cybernews [6]. Every source behind this Malfoid origin timeline is listed at the bottom of the page.

## What caused the Malfoid trend?

Three things lined up, and the Malfoid origin makes more sense once you see them together.

First, a template. Redteneri's drawing, the Malfoid origin point, was easy to copy: one character, one insult, one face. Every artist could add their own pose and line and still be part of the same joke.

Second, a ship with a long history. Fans have paired Harry and Draco for twenty years. A girl Draco turned that old enemies-to-lovers story into something even casual readers got at a glance.

Third, timing. Harry Potter was back in the news with the HBO series in production, so a lot of people who barely remembered Draco were seeing his name again.

Video: [Draco Malfoid Meme EXPLAINED!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCY_BJ5NeO8)

The video above retells the Malfoid origin from the meme side, with the incel slang explained along the way. Our [Malfoid meaning](/meaning.md) page covers the word in more detail.

## Who really started Malfoid?

Ask three people about the Malfoid origin and you can get three names. maariaaargh drew a girl Draco first, in 2011. @swag_chaser typed the word first, in January 2026. @redteneri drew the picture that made people care, in September 2026. A fair telling of the Malfoid origin credits all three and then the hundreds of artists who redrew her in the two weeks after.

## How the Malfoid origin spread beyond X

The first week was English-speaking X. By the second week the format had spread in every direction. Comics took over from single drawings, with Sachi_Hwa's robe-shop story and sigmman's Patronus series. Animations followed, with xin_cere_art's POTTTAH loop. Then came the two games, then fan fiction on AO3 and Wattpad, then Reddit threads arguing about the name.

The spread across languages is part of the Malfoid origin too, and it is visible in the posts. matsuryun posted on October 3 with the single caption マルフォイ, and naohrw7 tagged a portrait 女体化マルフォイ on October 7. sigmman, who writes in Korean and English, posted a thank-you drawing for 5,000 followers on October 8. The order is the point: English first, then Korean and Japanese artists within about ten days.

> @matsuryun: マルフォイ (https://x.com/matsuryun/status/2106365958449422729, 2.2K likes as of 2026-10-09)
> @sigmman: Malfoy's Patronus 3 #malfoid (https://x.com/sigmman/status/2107840564897198545, 16K likes as of 2026-10-09)

## Is the Malfoid origin still growing?

On October 8, about two weeks after the Malfoid origin, new drawings were still going up every day, and the most-liked posts kept gaining likes. We update this Malfoid origin timeline as new milestones land; the [fan art gallery](/fan-art.md) shows the latest posts, and [the Malfoid controversy](/controversy.md) covers the argument that grew alongside it.

## FAQ
### Who started Malfoid?
No single person. Girl Draco art goes back to 2011 and the word to January 2026, but the wave started with @redteneri's drawing on September 22, 2026.

### When did Malfoid start?
The viral part started on September 22, 2026 and took off between September 27 and 29, when X made it a trending topic.

### Why is Malfoid trending?
Each new drawing gave other artists a template to copy, and comics, animations and two fan games kept new posts coming every day.

### What was the first Malfoid art?
The earliest female Draco drawing Know Your Meme found is from Tumblr in 2011. The first drawing of the Malfoid trend itself is @redteneri's, from September 22, 2026.

## Sources
1. [Know Your Meme: Malfoid / Female Draco Malfoy](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/malfoid-female-draco-malfoy) (accessed 2026-10-08)
2. [@redteneri on X (September 22, 2026)](https://x.com/redteneri/status/2102398387194626330) (accessed 2026-10-09)
3. [X trending: Fans reimagine Draco Malfoy as anime girl Malfoid](https://x.com/i/trending/2105053744685777090) (accessed 2026-10-08)
4. [itch.io: Malfoid Dating Sim: Pureblood & Prejudice by COCOLEMON](https://ruizukun-dev.itch.io/malfoid-dating-sim) (accessed 2026-10-08)
5. [itch.io: Draconia: Malfoid Dating Sim by avrana](https://avrana.itch.io/malfoid) (accessed 2026-10-08)
6. [Cybernews: Why Harry Potter's viral Malfoid trend triggered a toxic online feud (October 6, 2026)](https://cybernews.com/entertainment/harry-potter-malfoid-backlash-anime/) (accessed 2026-10-08)
7. [X trending: Fans reimagine Draco Malfoy as flirty female Malfoid](https://x.com/i/trending/2107198469379121428) (accessed 2026-10-08)

## Related
- https://malfoid.wiki/female-draco-malfoy.md
- https://malfoid.wiki/who-is-malfoid.md
- https://malfoid.wiki/controversy.md
- https://malfoid.wiki/fan-art.md

## More
- https://malfoid.wiki/llms.txt