Jo's "I Can't"
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Jo's "I Can't" is a reaction video clip from the 2019 film Little Women in which Jo (played by Saoirse Ronan) repeatedly exclaims "I can't" in response to Laurie's (played by Timothée Chalamet) marriage proposal. The video clip became a popular reaction on Twitter used to describe something impossible in February 2020.
Origin
On December 25th, 2019, The film adaptation of the 1868 novel Little Women was released.[3] On January 19th, 2020, Twitter user @debickix uploaded a short clip of Jo March telling Laurie that she can't (shown below). The video gained over 4.8 million views and 300 likes in a month.
— e (@debickix) January 19, 2020
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On February 14th, 2020, Twitter user @chaoswaIking captioned the video “stop talking about florence pugh in little women” (shown below). The tweet garnered over 180 likes in four days.
“stop talking about florence pugh in little women” pic.twitter.com/hexp11ACk2
— amy march’s bangs ⴵ (@chaoswaIking) February 14, 2020
On February 16th, Twitter user @aherman2006 captioned the video "trying to write a sentence without an em dash" which received over 63,000 likes and 12,100 retweets in two days (shown below).
trying to write a sentence without an em dash pic.twitter.com/hWhsOsJlN3
— Alison Herman (@aherman2006) February 17, 2020
On February 17th, Prime Video's Twitter account used the video clip in reaction to the caption, "Boss: Can you maybe chill with the Adam Driver content today and promote some cool shows available on Prime Video? Me:" (shown below). The tweet accumulated over 6,300 likes and 1,300 retweets in a day. Junkee[1] and The Daily Dot[2] both published articles on the meme.
Boss: Can you maybe chill with the Adam Driver content today and promote some cool shows available on Prime Video?
— Prime Video (@PrimeVideo) February 17, 2020
Me:pic.twitter.com/S16QijPHyj
Various Examples
Comments: stop calling it Baby Yoda. It’s The Child.
— Nerdist (@nerdist) February 17, 2020
Us: pic.twitter.com/ZvZlgnvPpH
Amy Adams when we keep yelling at her to win her Oscar pic.twitter.com/jbFmIzONsM
— noah (@homoah) February 18, 2020
Me in 2013 to my mom after she suggested finding a job on LinkedIn pic.twitter.com/vijNp1AW3H
— Carey O'Donnell (@ecareyo) February 17, 2020
Trying to go to bed at a reasonable time instead of tweetingpic.twitter.com/UXGKbVOG6J
— JERRY DUNLEAVY (@JerryDunleavy) February 17, 2020
me trying to think of other adverbs besides “literally” pic.twitter.com/81jUWsMm8U
— bella (@cerseironan) February 17, 2020
“Why don’t you just delete twitter?” pic.twitter.com/gIBaRMn7I7
— Dave Jorgenson 🥛 (@davejorgenson) February 17, 2020
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