About

Awesome Lesbian Couple is a ship dynamic drawing of a hugging female couple captioned "awesome lesbian couple," posted by X / Twitter user @slushyisdead in May 2023. In August 2024, the image achieved virality as a meme format when a third person was added to the image, with versions adding an "evil and intimidating horse" gaining popularity in September 2024.

Origin

On May 26th, 2024, X^[1] user @slyshyisdead posted a ship dynamic drawing of a hugging female couple and a man standing next to them, captioned "awesome lesbian couple" and "himbo happy to be with his friends." The post (shown below) garnered over 8,400 reposts and 69,000 likes in one year.

Spread

The image did not achieve virality as a meme format until August 10th, 2024, although some standalone examples of fan art based on it did appear.^[2]

On August 10th, 2024, X^[3] user @Hanaussydevil posted an image that replaced the himbo character with Doctor Doom from Marvel Comics, which garnered over 2,900 reposts and 30,000 likes in one month.

The post was followed by other users adding Fantastic Four characters to the image, building upon the joke. For example, on August 10th, X^[4] user @MilkPls68 posted a version that added Reed Richards to the image and garnered 1,300 reposts and 16,000 likes in one month (shown below).

On September 11th, 2024, X^[5] user @rllyhungryhorse posted a version of the meme that added an "evil and intimidating horse." The post (shown below) received over 13,000 reposts and 130,000 likes in two days.

In the following days, this version of the meme achieved viral popularity, with users on X / Twitter replacing the couple and the horse with characters from various fandoms.

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