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Brandon Hebel @Hebester Follow LADIES imagine this! It's 15 years from now. You just hit the wall, you never had it all. You take one Prozac a day and you husbands a CPA. Your dreams went out the door when you turned twenty four. You've only been with one man. You ask, what happened to my plan? 9:59 PM - 22 May 2018

Lucero Godina @lucerogodina Follow LADIES Imagine this. 15 Year's from now. You're lying in a field of ur very own grown marijuana. The sun is shining, you're smoking a blunt while ur significant other is sucking on your t----. U order Chinese. Ur cream cheese wontons have just arrived. Ur living the dream 3:38 PM - 22 May 2018

Chihuahua Pappy @sirjoshofmosh Follow LADIES imagine this. Your husband is building a wall around your swamp. Smash Mouth is on the radio and tonight you're making WAFFLES. Everything is perfect. 4:10 PM- 22 May 2018

Rebecca Taylor @BecTaylor13 Follow LADIES imagine this- it's 1692. Your husband is building a house with sod and rocks. Your 6 sons are outside playing with their stick and hoop. You are hanging laundry and hoping the townsfolk don't discover you're a witch. Life is perfect 3:06 PM -22 May 2018

allison @wtvrali Follow LADIES: imagine this, 15 years in the future, ur dog is humping ur leg. it's the most action you've gotten in 14 yrs. ur ex husband throws a bag of trash on ur front step and lights it on fire. ur half son brogurt is swallowing magnets. 11:13 PM- 22 May 2018 from Indiana, USA

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About

Ladies, Imagine refers to a snowclone that grew popular on Twitter in May of 2018 parodying a tweet in which a woman imagined a scenario idyllic to her in which she's watching her husband and children participate in a baseball game. The parodies spread in a very similar manner to the It's 2028 parodies.

Origin

On May 20th, 2018, Twitter user @mallorii_alysee^[1] tweeted:

LADIES imagine this, it’s 15 years from now--your son is up to bat, your husband is the hot 3rd base coach, your little girl is cheering on her big brother at the fence,&you are team mom, taking pics with a fancy camera,&keeping the scorebook
THAT WOULD BE LIVING MY BEST LIFE

The tweet gained over 36,000 retweets and 134,000 likes in two days (shown below).

Mallori Taylor @mallorii_alysee Follow LADIES imagine this, it's 15 years from now your son is up to bat, your husband is the hot 3rd base coach, your little girl is cheering on her big brother at the fence,&you are team mom, taking pics with a fancy camera,&keeping the scorebook THAT WOULD BE LIVING MY BEST LIFE 6:59 PM - 20 May 2018

Spread

The parodies began spreading two days after the original tweet, on the 22nd. Two of the most popular parodies were posted by @bvhammer, gaining over 18,000 retweets and 116,000 likes (shown below, left), and a tweet by @dubstep4dads that gained over 24,000 retweets and 115,000 likes (shown below, right).

bailey @bvhamner Follow LADIES, imagine: it's 15 yrs from now your husband chad still has a mild coke addiction from his pike days and your kids thermos and keightlynn both got held back for being illiterate. keightlynn called you a bitch last night bc you wouldn't buy her the new iphone. life is good 12:24 AM- 22 May 2018

eric turtle @dubstep4dads Follow LADIES imagine this, its 15 years from now. your son is up to bat. your daughter is cheering him on in the stands. your husband is nowhere to be found, you start to worry he'll miss the game suddenly, a tiny red convertible pulls up on the field. its your husband, Stuart Little 8:46 PM- 22 May 2018

A popular strand of the parodies reimagined the snowclone without men. Twitter user @innerpres made such a joke, gaining over 3,900 retweets and 23,000 likes (shown below, left). User @jennalinds turned the format into a parody of the film Mamma Mia!, gaining 870 retweets and 3,700 likes (shown below, right).

presley @innerpres Follow LADIES imagine this, It's 15 years from now. You're not at a s----- baseball game, you're in hawaii for the weekend. With your wife. You re a lesbian. You can't have kids, so they can't hold you back. All your straight friends are stuck at kids sporting events You're laughing. 6:46 PM - 22 May 2018

Teen Comes Out

On May 28th, 2018, teenage Twitter user @m_alexander19 used the format to come out as bisexual in a tweet that gained over 3,900 retweets and 48,000 likes (shown below).

Follow @malexander19 LADIES Imagine this. You're 20 years old. It is 2018 It is actually today. You drove home from your new house in St Catherine's after a nice birthday weekend. You're now laying in bed watching Law & Order: SVU. You're me. And you're bisexual. This isn't a meme. l'm coming out. 10:19 PM- 28 May 2018

The tweet led to an outpouring of support from other Twitter users who praised the creativity of the post (examples shown below). The moment was covered by Business Insider.^[2]

Lavonne S @Lavonneee_simps Follow Replying to @m_alexander19 Purest meme of 2018 So happy for you 6:38 PM - 29 May 2018

Jared / Chivalry @jaredblakeslone Follow Replying to @m_alexander19 Wow this was definitely a unique way to do this for sure! Glad you're able to show your true colors without fear. Great stuff. 8:51 PM -29 May 2018

Various Examples

ketty hopkins @sibylpain Follow LADIES imagine this: it's 15 years from now, you're cuddled up with your 6 cats watching the l word. your wife returns from her job as prime minister, you order vegan chinese food and f--- for 4 hours. afterwards, you smile. men were all killed a year ago. you are at peace 1:18 PM 22 May 2018

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External References

^[1] Twitter – @malorii_alyssee

^[2] Business Insider – A teen used the 'Ladies, imagine this' meme to come out -- and it's truly legendary

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Origin

On May 20th, 2018, Twitter user @mallorii_alysee^[1] tweeted:

LADIES imagine this, it’s 15 years from now--your son is up to bat, your husband is the hot 3rd base coach, your little girl is cheering on her big brother at the fence,&you are team mom, taking pics with a fancy camera,&keeping the scorebook
THAT WOULD BE LIVING MY BEST LIFE

The tweet gained over 36,000 retweets and 134,000 likes in two days (shown below).