About

It Lives In My Sink refers to a series of memes where one character tells another "it lives in my sink" and panics about something living in the sink, depicted in the meme as a photo of an eyeball peering up out of a sink drain. The eyeball photo was first uploaded to Twitter in September 2021 and is actually a glass eye that fell into the drain while its owner was washing it. The images inspired numerous photoshops the month it was published, as well as becoming an exploitable.

Origin

On September 18th, 2021, Twitter^[1] user @DaniloohD made a post in Spanish that translates to, "washing my eye and it fell down the drain, now it's stuck there and I can take it out 🆘" along with two photos of the eye in the drain, one close-up and one further away (shown below, left and right). The post gained over 178,000 likes and 11,700 retweets in roughly two months.

Additionally, the uploader commented with two photographs of him trying to fish the eyeball out of the sick with a toothpick, looking like he's stabbing the eye with it (shown below, left and right).

The image of the eye in the sink was photoshopped numerous times and posted to the comments of the original post by Twitter users (examples shown below).

Spread

On September 19th, 2021, Instagram^[2] page poppyflowercrown posted an edit of a Blobby N Friends webcomic where one character tells another "it lives in my sink" only to be told to buzz off, then panics, saying, "it's there always watching I have to tear down my sink it lives in my sink oh god there's someone in my sink" and finally a fourth panel showing the eye in the sink (shown below). The post gained over 1,400 likes in two months.

On September 22nd, iFunny^[3] user UNSC_HQ posted a Halo-themed version of the meme showing Master Chief telling a soldier to calm down who's freaking out about it living in the sink, gaining over 25 smiles in two weeks (shown below, left). On November 1st, Facebook^[4] page Amabo posted a version of the Couple Texting In Bed meme using the eyeball image (shown below, right).

The Blobby N' Friends and Couple Texting In Bed versions of the memes became notably popular in reposts between September and November. For example, on September 19th, Facebook^[5] page Yeah I'm Stuck in the Void, Keep Scrolling posted the Blobby version, gaining over 4,000 reactions and 2,700 shares in two months. On October 31st, Instagram^[6] page salad.snake shared the texting meme, gaining over 83,000 likes in four days.

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