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It Gets Worse, Jameela Jamil Just Defended You is a reaction image and exploitable meme from the 2021 Gossip Girl reboot. The image shows a blonde girl looking at her phone while saying the line, with memes typically switching out Jameela Jamil's name for various other celebrities. The meme first made the rounds in the early 2020s, a year after the episode aired in July 2021.

Origin

The image showing a blonde girl reading off her phone and saying, "It gets worse, Jameela Jamil just defended you," is a screen capture from the 2021 Gossip Girl reboot,^[1] featuring Emily Alyn Lind As Audrey Hope. The dialogue appeared in Season 1, Episode 4, "Fire Walks With Z."

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On September 3rd, 2022, X^[2] user @thenoasletter posted the meme in reference to the Lea Michelle Can't Read memes of 2022, gathering over 5,000 likes in a year (seen below, left). On July 8th, 2023, X^[3] user @PeterTwinklage posted the meme in reference to Jonah Hill's Boundaries controversy in 2023, gathering over 55,000 likes in six months (seen below, right).

On January 10th, 2024, X^[4] user @myholyrevival posted the meme with the name edited to read Misha Collins from the CW drama Supernatural. The post gathered over 7,000 likes in four days (seen below, left). On January 24th, 2024, X^[5] user @paulswhtn posted the meme in reference to Hillary Clinton's #HillaryBarbie post, gathering over 3,000 likes in an hour (seen below, right).

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