Me vs. Childhood Fear
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Me vs. My Childhood Fear refers to a series of tweets in which a user posts a picture of themselves and an image of something they were afraid of when they were a child. The trend rose alongside similar memes like The Poet / The Poem and Art / Artist.
Origin
On January 23rd, 2020, Twitter user @kannchy[1] started the trend, posting a picture of herself and Slappy the Dummy from Goosebumps, gaining over 800 points (shown below).
Spread
On January 27th, Twitter user @InternetBBY[4] posted an example featuring the Blue Man Group, gaining over 300 retweets and 3,900 likes (shown below, left). User @quenblackwell[5] posted an example with Dr. Carver from The Proud Family, gaining over 2,600 retweets and 35,000 likes (shown below, right).
The popularity of the trend inspired larger accounts to post examples. For example, rappers Lil Yachty[2] and Rico Nasty[3] both posted examples of the meme, gaining over 5,700 likes and 47,000 likes, respectively (shown below). The meme was covered by TIME.[6]
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External References
[2] Twitter – Lil Yachty
[3] Twitter – Rico Nasty
[4] Twitter – InternetBBY
[5] Twitter – quenblackwell
[6] TIME – Your Old Scary Memories Live to Haunt You Another Day All Thanks to the 'Me vs. My Childhood Fear' Meme
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