I Can’t Come I'm Having Guests Over
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About
I Can't Come I'm Having Guests Over is a popular caption for photographs of small animals." The memes indicate that the memer would rather spend time with the animal than other humans.
Origin
On January 14th, 2020, Twitter [1] user @ItsSlyGuy posted the earliest known usage of the format. The used an image of a small cat as the punchline to the caption, "'I can't come I'm having guests over' / guests over." Within two weeks, the tweet received more than 138,000 likes and 41,000 retweets (shown below).
The image was originally posted by Redditor [2] D1sabledW4ffle earlier that day.
Spread
Over the next week, others posted variations of the meme, either using edited versions of the cat image or other animals (examples below, left and center, respectively).
On January 20th, Instagram [3] user @fourtwenty posted the meme, replacing the image of the cat with five cannabis cigarettes. The post received more than 75,000 likes in less than 24 hours (shown below, right).
Various Examples
![ファティマ四叫[] @Onlymisawapls "I can't come l'm having guests over" guests over: 5:23 AM · Jan 16, 2020 · Twitter for Android](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/714/712/016.png "Character in red")
Search Interest
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External References
[1] Twitter – @ItsSlyGuy's Tweet
[2] Reddit – /r/IllegallySmolCats
[3] Instagram – @fourtwenty's Post
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![ファティマ四叫[] @Onlymisawapls "I can't come l'm having guests over" guests over: 5:23 AM · Jan 16, 2020 · Twitter for Android](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/list/001/714/712/016.png "Character in red")
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