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If My Girl Drowning

If My Girl Drowning

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About

"If My Girl Drowning" Snowclone refers to a snowclone popular mostly on Twitter in which a person presents a scenario in which both their girlfriend and another object are both drowning and they can only save one, and they usually elect to save the other object. The copypasta is generally littered with emoji.

Origin

The snowclone originally started on Black Twitter. The original post read "If my barber and my girl both drowning and I can only save one. Catch me at my girl's funeral with the freshest fade ever," with no emojis. The original post appears to have been deleted, but it was quoted on Twitter on August 1st, 2014, by @annaelizabethh_.[1] That user was quoting a user named "KiranDavid_," who is likely Kiran David, an author who goes by the handle @KiranADavid (shown below).


elizabeth warren @annaelizabethh ( + Follow “@KiranDavid-If my barber and my girl both drowning and I can only save one. Catch me at girl's funeral with the freshest fade ever."

Spread

The post spread through various text-reposting Twitter accounts until October of 2015. On October 13th, 2015, Twitter user @sanchovies[2] added the emojis to the copypasta in a post that gained 451 retweets and 681 likes (shown below). After being reposted several times on Twitter with slight variations, the post was copied onto /r/emojipasta[3] on April 26th, 2016. On November 2nd, 2015, @memearchive[7] uploaded a version in which "memes" was inserted into the snowclone, gaining over 3,300 retweets (shown below, right).


big baller virgin @Sanchovies ( gt Follow If my barber' and my girl drowningand I can only save one both Catch me at my girl funeral freshest fade úegg wit tha 6:47 PM -13 Oct 2015 memearchive @memearchive Follow 100 and my girl both If my memes drowning c and I can only save one EED wit tha Catch me at my girl funeral 2:03 PM-2 Nov 2015

In the following months, various other objects were applied to the Snowclone. On August 2nd, a variation with Harambe was posted to /r/emojipasta where it gained over 1,700 points.[4] On September 2nd, 2016, gurl.com[5] posted a compilation of popular examples of the snowclone on Twitter. One of the most popular examples, posted by @NathanZed[6] on August 24th, inserts Jacob Sartorius into the snowclone, and gained 9,200 retweets and 17,000 likes (shown below, left). Another popular example from the same article by @HUNTYCHAN[8] inserts the album EMOTION from Carly Rae Jepsen. As of July 27th, 2017, the meme continues to be used consistently.


golden boy @NathanZed Follovw if Jacob Sartorius.. & my girlboth drowning. C and i can only save one . I'm wearing catch me at my girl funeral his sweatshirtD 9:05 PM-24 Aug 2016 jake @HUNTYCHAN ( Follow ) If Carly Rae Jepsen & my man both dyingl 8 and I can only save one catch me at his funeral to listening to EMOTION 8:26 PM- 30 Aug 2016

Various Examples


if gavin & my girl C both drowning and I can only save one ' catch me my girls funeral S. tweeting sad gavin memes 叩 if my girl and the constitution . both drowningcatch us with the proletariat supermajority rewriting that old pos 11:22 PM- 23 Jul 2017 If fireflies by owl city and my girl . 六both drowning C and I can only save one Catch me at the funeral , getting 1,000 hugs.. 分 6:20 PM -11 Jul 2017 from The Woodlands, TX If Miranda Cosgrove And my girl Both drowning C 。 Catch me at her funeral O in 5, 4, 3, 2. Akechi Goro: If my girl And pancakes e Are drowning And I can only save1 Catch me at the funeral Full and covered in syrup :35 PM-5 Jul 2017 4 If OtaconGu and my girl both drowning & I could only save one @ catch me at my girls funeral Being an Otaku too . 1:10 PM- 1 Jul 2017

Search Interest

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External References

[1] Twitter – @annaelizabethh_

[2] Twitter – @Sanchovies

[3] /r/EmojiPasta – If my barber💇🏼💺 and my girl👸🏼😍 both drowning😱🌊 and I can only save one😤😬 Catch me at my girl funeral😔👻🌹 wit tha freshest fade😜😏💯😎🍆

[4] /r/Emojipasta – If harambe and my girl 👧 😍 both drowning 😱 👋 and I can only save one 😤 😬 Catch me at my girl funeral 😔 👻 🌹 with my dick out 😏 💯 😎 🍆

[5] Gurl – 12 Of The Best “Can Only Save One” Memes You Will Ever See

[6] Twitter – @NathanZed

[7] Twitter – @memearchive

[8] Twitter – @HUNTYCHAN

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One emoji in a single post is perfect
Two are ok
At three you're overdoing it
At four you need to stop
At five you shouldn't be allowed to post for the rest of the year
At six for the rest of your life
At seven you should be dropped from an airplane
At eight the airplane should be flying over a volcano

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