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Delete, A Lot Of People Are Asking You To Delete, also known as the Delete Copypasta, is a copypasta depicting a user begging for a poster to delete their content because it is triggering to them or others. The copypasta was popularized on Twitter throughout 2020, becoming increasingly prevalent online over the following years.

Origin

The earliest known use of a version of the copypasta was posted to Twitter^[1] by @netflixado on February 18th, 2020. It is unclear if this is the earliest iteration of the copypasta. The exact text of the copypasta sometimes differs between posts (two common versions shown below).

delete, a lot of people asking you to delete, its triggering for so many people, there are people that faint and feel sick, please im begging you to delete it, delete post right now, its forbidden and iIIegal in many countries to post something like that, people are crying

delete it please theres a lot of people asking to delete it please several people asking please delete it we beg you there are people feeling sick seeing this there are people crying delete it please delete it please people are feeling sick with this everyone's asking you delete

Spread

On Reddit, the copypasta was posted to the /r/copypasta^[2] subreddit on August 24th, 2021. It continued to spread throughout the 2020s on Twitter as a comedic way of asking a poster to delete their post. On September 29th, 2021, Twitter^[3] user @letterboxdauras posted a screenshot of a Letterboxd review for He's All That consisting of the copypasta, garnering over 2,100 likes in two years (shown below).

On May 29th, 2023, YouTuber h3h3productions posted a viral Photoshop edit of himself with a thinning hairline to Twitter^[4] along with the copypasta, garnering over 19,000 likes in four days (shown below).

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