About

No Offense But Zayn Actually Sucks is a phrasal template based on a January 2018 tweet. The phrase, which spread in popularity on Twitter, is usually paired with other examples of people posting this about different celebrities and a followup post about how they met that celebrity.

Origin

On January 19th, 2018, Twitter user @itsdaniella tweeted, "no offense but zayn actually sucks." Less than two weeks later, they tweeted, "I JUST FUCKING MET ZAYN." The tweets have since been protected.

Shortly after the tweets were posted, on February 3rd, Twitter^[1] user @intograys shared screenshots of both. They added, "no offense but ariana actually sucks." Within two years, the post received more than 1,000 likes and 275 retweets (shown below).

Spread

Following the post, others began sharing variations of the meme, replacing the celebrity as the subject (example below, left).

Over the next year, people continued to share examples of the tweets "working." For example, on April 10th, 2019, Twitter^[2] user @explicithoneys tweeted, "No offense but harry styles actually sucks." The tweet received more than 16,000 likes and 4,000 retweets in less than 24 hours (shown below, center).

Months later, on August 15th, Twitter^[3] user @nureizzatyyy tweeted their variation of the meme, which references their acceptance into college, with the caption, "ALHAMDULILLAH IT WORKSSSS." The tweet received more than 34,000 likes and 7,600 retweets in less than six months (shown below, right).

Various Examples

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