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Lizzo's Tiny Purse refers to American singer Lizzo's small Valentino purse she brought to the 47th annual American Music Awards in November 2019. It's incredibly small size sparked conversation online and object-labeling memes.

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On November 24th, 2019, The American Music Award Twitter account posted a video of Lizzo's red carpet interview in which she joked that she was carrying "tampons, a flask and a condom" in her purse (show below). The video gained over 7,900 likes and 1,100 retweets in a day.

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On November 24th, 2019, ENews^[1] tweeted a photo of Lizzo on the red carpet with the caption "A moment of silence for @lizzo and her tiny purse. The queen has arrived and we're feelin' GOOD. AS. HELL. #AMAs" (shown below, left). The tweet accumulated over 2,300 likes and 260 retweets in a day. That same night, Twitter user @benyahr^[2] captioned a photo of Lizzo with her tiny purse with "I can’t believe Lizzo carried my self esteem on the AMA’s red carpet" (shown below, right). The tweet garnered over 20,400 likes and 4,300 retweets in a day.

MTV's Twitter^[3] account posted an image in which they labeled Lizzo as "Me in 2020" and her purse as "My worries of 2019" (shown below, left). The image received over 7,400 likes and 2,000 retweets in a day. Twitter user @blanksspacx^[4] captioned Lizzo's red carpet look with "ummm why is lizzo carrying my will to live in her bag??" (shown below, right).

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