The story
From corn + cob. The Internet slang sense emerged from a 2011 absurdist tweet by Weird Twitter personality dril in which a man furiously denies being owned as he transforms into a corncob.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
corncob
corn·cobToday it means: The central cylindrical core of an ear of corn (maize) on which the kernels are attached in rows. Full definition →