About

Happily Married to My 5'5 King is a copypasta based on a December 2019 viral tweet in which a woman praises her husband for his height. Many pair the phrase with images of tall women next to men that are shorter. The entire copypasta reads:

Happily married to my 5’5” king for 8 years while y’all are getting ghosted by 6’2” alcoholics with 7th grade reading levels but go off about how you only date tall men I guess.

Origin

On December 12th, 2019, Twitter^[1] user @Lizz tweeted, "Happily married to my 5’5” king for 8 years while y’all are getting ghosted by 6’2” alcoholics with 7th grade reading levels but go off about how you only date tall men I guess." They included a picture of a woman holding and kissing a shorter man on the head. The post received more than 187,000 likes and 37,000 retweets in less than one year (shown below).

Spread

Some responded to the tweet by sharing their own relationships that feature a size differential between men and women, with the woman being taller. Twitter^[2] user @monetmignon shared an image of a man and woman dressed as Gomez and Morticia Addams from the Addams Family franchise. They captioned the post, "Happily married to my 5’5” king for 8 years while y’all are getting ghosted by 6’2” alcoholics with 7th grade reading levels but go off about how you only date tall men I guess." The post received more than 1,000 likes in less than one year (shown below, left).

Others posted jokes, parodying the tweet. On December 27th, Twitter^[3] user @INDIEWASHERE tweeted an edited photograph of a woman with Remy from the film Rattatouie. The post received more tag n3,400 likes and 370 retweets in less than one year (shown below, center). On February 15th, Twitter^[4] user @sepctordeforce shared a picture of former New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg and Jeffrey Epstein colleague Ghislaine Maxwell (shown below, right).

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