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My Therapist Gave Me This and Said, "That's You," also known simply as the Bird in Cage Meme, refers to a viral post of a printed-out image shared by X user @charizardavis, which was supposedly given to them by their therapist. The image, which depicts a bird sitting in a cage that it can easily escape from, was used as the source material for memes in September 2024, while the caption itself has also been used in memes.

Origin

On September 12th, 2024, X^[1] / Twitter user @charizardavis posted a printed-out image of a plump bird looking through bars of a cage that it could easily escape from, captioned, "My therapist gave me this and said, 'that's you.'" The post (shown below) received over 68,000 reposts and 720,000 likes in one day.

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Later on September 12th, 2024, X^[2] user @_jwigz quoted the post, writing, "LMAO would've pissed me tf off." The post (shown below) received over 21,000 reposts and 246,000 likes in one day.

In the following hours, the image spread on social media as it was used in various memes. For example, on September 12th, X^[3] user @PercussionSamp1 posted a Notejak meme that received over 14,000 reposts and 229,000 likes in one day (shown below).

The caption from the original post has also been used in memes as it was paired with various images. For example, on September 13th, 2024, X^[4] user @danielbolivarm posted an Esnupi meme that received over 1,400 reposts and 10,000 likes in one day (shown below).

The post has inspired comparisons with the Depicted as a Soyjak meme.

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