About

I Can't Believe I Was In Love With a Chick or You Mean You're Not A Clumsy Soldier Femboy Twink is a redraw format and series of exploitable image macro memes based on a screenshot from Disney's Mulan of the character Li Shang walking away from Mulan after revealing herself to be a woman, captioned, "I can't believe I was in love with a chick." The meme was originally posted to 9GAG in April 2018 and garnered viral spread over the following years, largely as a redraw format in which the characters are replaced.

Origin

On April 17th, 2018, Pinterest^[1] user 🖤BΔTMΔN🖤 reposted a comic originally shared on 9GAG^[2] (now deleted) on an unknown date, garnering over 110 likes in seven years. The comic is a comedic recaptioning of the scene from Disney's Mulan in which Li Shang finds out that Mulan is a woman. In the comic, he says upon finding out, "I can't believe I was in love with chick," then walks away to find a gay bar.

Spread

The comic and various croppings of the meme garnered viral spread over the following years. On December 9th, 2018, 9GAG^[3] user joelsu posted a cropping of three of the panels that gained over 5,800 upvotes in seven years.

On January 10th, 2019, a cropping of the single "I can't believe I was in love with a chick" panel was archived on Know Your Meme^[4] by Eris, garnering over 2,300 views in six years.

On December 23rd, Redditor u/new2this12345678 posted the cropped three-panel version of the comic to the /r/memes^[5] subreddit, garnering over 42,000 upvotes in six years.

On September 20th, 2020, iFunny^[6] user TrashFromTheSunlessRealms_2014 posted an image macro of Li Shang captioned, "You mean you're not a clumsy soldier femboy twink?"

On November 11th, Redditor u/Scubasteves8183 posted a meme that combines the image macro with the "I can't believe I was in love with a chick" image macro, garnering over 15,000 upvotes in five years.

On August 29th, 2021, Redditor u/ibaRRaVzLa posted a version of the meme to the /r/PoliticalCompassMemes^[7] subreddit, garnering over 2,400 upvotes in four years.

On December 9th, 2022, Redditor u/skelinor posted an original redraw of the comic to the /r/Zelda^[8] subreddit, replacing the characters with Link and Zelda from The Legend of Zelda, garnering over 9,400 upvotes in three years.

On January 8th, 2023, Redditor u/fasd432 posted a meme referencing the comic to the /r/OkBuddyPersona,^[9] garnering over 1,400 upvotes in two years.

On February 12th, 2025, X^[10] user @MoonllitaArt posted a redraw of the comic featuring characters from the video game Persona 4, garnering over 18,000 likes in four months.

Various Examples

Search Interest

External References