Me If Loving X Was an Olympic Sport

About

Me If Loving X Was an Olympic Sport refers to a series of image macros featuring American gymnast Simone Biles with five gold medals on her neck with the title caption, with various users replacing "X" with humorous subjects. The photo grew popular during with 2024 Summer Paris Olympics in early August 2024, with various recaptioned edit of things someone likes.

Origin

On October 13th, 2019, EPA-EFE photographer Daniel Kopatsch published a photo of Simone Biles wearing her five gold medals after the women's Apparatus Final at the 2019 Gymnastic World Championships. The image was published in USA Today^[1] (shown below).

On August 3rd, 2024, Reddit^[2] user sheilamlin uploaded the earliest known edit to use a similar photo from the event, captioning the picture, "Me if loving King of the Hill was an Olympic sport," to the /r/KingOfTheHill subreddit. The post received 257 upvotes in four days (shown below).

Spread

Starting in August of 2024, the image grew popular as a reception meme, with various edits championing a specific brand or object. For example, on August 5th, 2024, Twitter / X^[3] user @akutaguro uploaded an edit for showing love to the Ryuunosuke Akutagawa and Atsushi Nakajima ship from _Bungou Stray Dogs (also known as SSKK). The post received over 1,900 likes in two days (shown below, left). The next day, Twitter / X^[4] user @ranpoecult uploaded an edit that received over 2,100 likes in one day (shown below, right).

On August 6th, 2024, Twitter / X^[5] user @TINYNOCEDA uploaded an edit about The Owl House and received over 4,300 likes in one day (shown below, left). The next day, Twitter / X^[6] user @mascyang uploaded an edit about loving RWBY. The post received over 1,800 likes in less than one day (shown below, right).

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