About
Cure-chan is a female anime-style character designed to be the anthropomorphic representation of good health, prosperity and overall medical need. She was designed as a response to the rise of Ebola-Chan and made to oppose her nature of infecting and killing off the human race, where Cure-Chan lectures good health, and vaccines.
Origin
On October 13th, 2014 three users from the /f/lockdraw board Skycow.us created Cure-Chan. The idea of Cure-Chan was simple, to promote the usage of vaccines, and to create tension between Ebola-Chan posters and people who opposed Ebola-Chan. She was designed to be the opposite of Ebola-Chan, with long flowing light blue hair, taller, and a older, more robust figure.
Spread
While Cure-Chan had a relatively slow spread at first, she caught on towards January of 2015 and beyond when the /ebola/ board on 8chan was stolen by a member of the Cure-Chan board, /cure/, on 8chan. The member of /cure/ simply e-mailed 8chan’s admin asking for the board since the owner of the board wasn’t logged into his admin account for 2 weeks. This allowed the member of /cure/ to easily spread her name to new heights by changing the images to more of a Cure-Chan theme such as a re-imagining of the infamous Ebola-Chan picture holding the bloody skull but with Cure-Chan holding Ebola-Chan’s head.[1] It is now a ban worthy offense to talk about Cure-Chan in a good light on /ebola/.
Cure-Chan in recent times has become more of a rival than a nemesis to Ebola-Chan, demonstrated in the official Ebola-Chan Tumblr Ask Blog[2].
Various Examples
References
[1]8chan – oh no, someone else claimed the board! / Posted on 2-21-2015
[2]Tumblr – STRAIGHTOUT OF AFRICA / Posted on 10-1-2015