Match My Freak / Who Are 2 People That Actually Did Match Each Other's Freak?

About

Who Are 2 People That Actually Did Match Each Other's Freak? is a catchphrase and prompt on Twitter / X based on the slang term "match my freak," which refers to compatibility in relationships. Specifically, "freak" seems to refer to the strange, unpalatable parts of a person that can find a good counterpart in another person's strangeness. In April and May 2024, the question went viral on Twitter as users posed it and replied with various characters from pop culture or other public figures.

Origin

The phrase "match my freak" comes from the Tinashe song "Nasty," released on April 12th, 2024. The song's official music video on YouTube (seen below) earned 2.4 million views in one month after its release.^[6]

The lyrics concerning "match my freak" go as follows:

Is somebody gonna match my freak?
Is somebody gonna match my nasty?
I got stamina, they say I'm a athlete
Is somebody gonna match my freak?
Need somebody with a good technique

On May 17th, 2024, @hugtulip on X made the post (seen below) inquiring about the phrase, which received over 5,700 likes and 18,000 reposts over the course of three days.^[1] The post was continually reposted and quote-posted with different drawings, photos and videos inserted alongside the text.

Spread

Quote-posts of the post featuring various characters from TV shows rapidly proliferated. The meme made reference to a diverse array of fandoms. For example, on May 18th, 2024, X user @cryst6l posted a picture of Donkey from Shrek next to the text (seen below), earning over 117,000 likes in one day.^[2]

Also that day, X user @benyahr made a post featuring the characters of the series PEN15, earning 67,000 likes in two days (shown below).^[3]

Ironic postings of the meme also started to spread as well. For example, on May 19th, 2024, X user @anxiousdeluxe posted a version depicting politicians Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar (seen below) earning 1,800 likes in a day.^[4]

Posts using the slang phrase "match my freak" to mean "being compatible in a relationship" also proliferated in the days following the viral quote-tweet trend.

For example, on May 19th, X user @kycarrerolopez earned over 47,000 likes for posting a meme (seen below) featuring Carrie Bradshaw from Sex and the City typing out a question, as the character does in many episodes of the show, about "matching my freak."^[5]

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