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Nobody Understands the Bond Between a Girl and the Mediocre Book She Read When She Was 13
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Nobody Understands the Bond Between a Girl and the Mediocre Book She Read When She Was 13 or Nobody Understands the Bond Between a Boy and the Mediocre WR He Watched When He Was Younger refers to a series of memes, including image macros, using the phrasal template "Nobody understands the bond between X and the Y when they were Z," with "X," "Y" and "Z" replaced and recaptioned with references to a specific thing that made a lasting impact on someone's life as a child. The original meme was posted to X / Twitter in June 2023 and became the subject of further memes over the following months.
Origin
On June 30th, 2023, X[1] user @jianginc posted, "nobody understands the bond between a girl and the mediocre book she read when she was 13," garnering over 31,000 likes and 9,600 reposts in a year (shown below).
Spread
The meme spread over the following months, inspiring new variations that changed the subject of the text. On August 17th, 2023, the original meme was reposted by the Romance Reads Facebook[2] page, garnering over 14,000 shares and 90,000 reactions in a year. On August 22nd, the Taking Back Saturday Facebook[3] page posted an edit of the tweet that references emo music, garnering over 78,000 shares and 230,000 reactions in a year (shown below).
On August 23rd, Tumblr[4] user the-oddest-inkling posted the same phrase as the original tweet, garnering over 110,000 notes in a year.
On May 14th, 2024, X[5] user @IcyVert posted, "nobody understands the bond between a boy and the mediocre WR he watched when he was nine," "WR" in this case meaning "wide receiver," garnering over 30,000 likes in two months (shown below).
On May 21st, TikToker[6] @6vlz6 posted an image macro using the same phrasing over an image of Shia LaBeouf, changing the text to reference obscure PS2 games, garnering over 25,000 views in two months. On May 24th, Redditor u/hogboi16 posted a screenshot of the meme to /r/finalfantasyx,[7] garnering over 1,200 upvotes in the same span of time (shown below, left).
On June 8th, 2024, X[8] user @midwestern_ope posted a version of the meme reading, "Nobody understands the bond between a Midwest dad and this chair," garnering over 3,000 likes in a month (shown below, right).
Various Examples
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External References
[2] Facebook – Romance Reads
[3] Facebook – Taking Back Saturday
[4] Tumblr – the-oddest-inkling
[7] Reddit – finalfantasyx
[8] X – midwestern_ope
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