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Oh, You Love X? Name Every Y


Added 6 years ago by Matt • Updated about a month ago by sakshi
Added 6 years ago by Matt • Updated about a month ago by sakshi

Rodimus
Oh you like jojo? name every jojo character.
Shep
um
pab
alright hold on
Rodimus
Oh you like jojo? name every jojo character.
Shep
um
pab
alright hold on

About

Oh, You Love a Band? Name Three of Their Albums, also known by the phrasal template Oh You Like X? Name EveryY, is are a series of snowclone memes which parody gatekeeping and music elitism, often associated with hipsters. Gaining initial meme recognition with "Oh you love your mom" tweets in May 2017, in October 2019 the snowclone format regained popularity on Twitter. In October 2020, the format regained popularity in edits in which a person fulfilled the request of naming every single instance of something.

Precursor

The expression "Name three of their albums" has been phrase used to test someone's knowledge of a musical artist since before the internet. In regards to Twitter, however, the earliest known instance occurred on September 11th, 2011, when user @palomawesome[6] tweeted, "'OMG I love this band!' Name three of their albums." The tweet can be found below.


Paloma Rodriguez @palomawesome "OMG I love this band!" Name three of their albums.

Oh, You Love Your Mom? Name Three of Her Albums

On May 13th, 2017, Twitter user @daviddeweil[1] tweeted "Oh you love your mom? Name three of her albums." The tweet (shown below) mocked musical gatekeeping or elitism by substituting a musical artist for "your mom." @davidedeweil received more than 23,000 retweets and 48,000 likes.


David DeWeil @daviddeweil Oh you love your mom? Name three of her albums

Shortly after @daviddeweil's tweet went viral, people started tweeting "album titles at him," i.e send common motherly expressions as if they were album titles. He received more than 1,300 response to his tweet.

That day Twitter[5] user @drnzy retweeted the original tweet and responded: "1. There's food at home 2. I'm not one of your little friends (went 3x platinum) 3. I'll give you something to cry about." The tweet (shown below) received more than 13,300 retweets and 19,000 likes.


@drnzy 1. There's food at home 2. I'm not one of your little friends (went 3:x platinum) 3. I'll give you something to cry about

Throughout the day, people continued to tweet their mom's "albums."One tweet from @CTowersCBS[2] (shown below, left), which read "'I'm not going to say it again' is her best work," received more than 200 retweets and 1,000 likes. Another by @blackismy[3] (shown below, right), which featured several albums by "Your mom," received more than 2,500 retweets and 5,800 likes in two days.

On May 14th, Twitter published a Moments page, archiving some of the most popular posts and responses to the tweet.[4]


Chris Towers @CTowersCBS Replying to @daviddeweil "'m not going to say it again" is her best work Stephen J. @blackismy Replying to @daviddeweil 1) Untitled (The Look 2) What Bill Do You Pay Here 3) Yall Come Eat (Go wash yo hands) ft. Aunties Bonus: I Put Some $$$ In (Yo Account)

October 2019 Resurgence

In the following years, the snowclone maintained moderate popularity on Twitter and other platforms. For example, on April 19th, 2019, Twitter user @rylrat tweeted "Oh you like music? Name one song," with the tweet receiving over 6,800 retweets and 27,300 likes in six months (shown below, left).[7] On August 14th, 2019, Instagram user yourfrienddoge posted an Ironic Doge Meme based on the snowclone, receiving over 7,700 likes in two months (shown below, right).[8]


rylee @rylrat Oh you like music? Name one song 10:02 AM-19 Apr 2019 OPYOU LOVE DOGE?! No.4 ART 1000 WEY STORE deTADE MCA D--- YourFriendDoge SUMA NAME3 OF HISALBUMS THEN

On September 12th, 2019, Twitter user @ULTRAGLOSS tweeted "men be like oh you like movies???? name all of them," with the tweet receiving over 20,000 retweets and 118,800 likes.[9] On October 4th, 2019, Twitter user @goodbeanalt copied @rylrat's tweet, with the post receiving over 15,000 retweets and 80,000 likes in one month (shown below, right).[10] On the same day Twitter user @jennifermerr posted another meme utilizing the snowclone, receiving over 400 retweets and 6,000 likes in the same period,[11] with several more notable variations being posted prior to October 18th.


trish @ULTRAGLOSS men be like oh you like movies???? name all of them 8:28 AM - 12 Sep 2019 Beans After Dark @goodbeanalt oh you like music? name a song 7:33 AM - 4 Oct 2019

On October 18th, 2019, Twitter user @gothicmane posted another meme based on the catchphrase, receiving over 83,000 retweets and 323,000 likes in one week (shown below).[11]


ryan @gothicmane oh you like music? name every song 8:22 PM - 18 Oct 2019

In the following days, the snowclone format gained significant popularity on Twitter.

October 2020 Resurgence

On July 25th, 2020, YouTube user PAB uploaded[12] a humorous video based on a Discord conversation between himself and another user. In the conversation, Discord user Rodimus writes, "oh you love jojo? name every jojo character," with PAB proceeding to list every major and minor named character appearing in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga series. The video (shown below), set to "E1M1" from Doom soundtrack, received over 1.2 million views in four month.



The video inspired a subtrend in which users fulfilled a request to name every single instance of something, with the videos usually being recorded in Discord. On August 19th, 2020, YouTube[13] user Phantom Thief Irwin posted the earliest known derivative meme based on the format, gaining over 1.4 million views in three months (shown below, left). The subformat did not achieve its viral point until September 15th, when YouTube[14] user Memetastic posted an Among Us meme that received over 5.4 million views in two months (shown below, right). The video featured "Paralyzer" by Finger Eleven which then became associated with the format.



Following the viral spread of Memetastic's and the previous videos, the subformat gained viral popularity online, particularly on YouTube and Twitter.

Gru Holding a Gun / Hand Pointing a Gun

The viral photoshop of Despicable Me character Gru holding a gun has been closely associated with the format, with Oh You Love X? Name Every Y snowclone often combined with the image in the form of an image macro. By extension, general Hand Pointing a Gun memes have also been used in this manner.

Various Examples


Jeffrey L. Wilson @jeffreylwilson Replying to @daviddeweil 1. I Love You 2. Boy, You Better Pick That Up (the double LP) 3. In The Name of Jesus! Baesalupa @lronButterfly10 Replying to @daviddeweil 1. Don't touch my thermostat 2. Go fix me some ice water (interlude) 3. Come show me how to work this *any electronic device* Zigurdur Supremet @Asuka_Boi Oh, you like Evangelion? Name five mental illnesses 11:35 AM - 21 Oct 2019


Redza @RedzaMusic oh you like 22 jump street? name jeff 6:33 PM - 22 Oct 2019 Hamza @hamzarana98 Oh you like babies? Name ours 5:10 PM 22 Oct 2019 Chase @chaselyons oh you like your credit card? name every number on it 8:18 AM - 22 Oct 2019

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