About

Ouhhh… Husbant… Now We Are Homeress… refers to a series of memes based on photographs of Japanese singer Mogusa Shirose captioned with Engrish monologue in which she accuses her husband of spending too much money on his hobby, resulting in them now being homeless. The most common photo used in the format is of Shirose standing outside in snowy weather looking sad while staring into the camera. Started by a 2020 4chan post about spending too much on video games, the format achieved virality in June 2022.

Origin

The Asian woman whose photographs are used in the memes is a Japanese singer named Mogusa Shirose (mog_beibu).^[1][2][11]

On October 26th, 2020, an anonymous 4chan user posted a photograph of Mogusa standing in the snow to the /v/^[3] board, writing a dialogue in Engrish in which she accused her husband of spending too much money on video games, resulting in them becoming homeless (post shown below).

Ohhh…
Husbant…
You buy too much video games.
Now we are homeress….

Spread

On December 15th, 2020, an anonymous 4chan^[4] user posted the earliest derivative meme, changing the dialogue to be about Fumos (shown below, left).

The meme did not see further spread until June 11th, 2022, when a 4chan^[5] user recreated the original October 2020 post on /v/ (shown below, right). Later that day, Redditor ShotaHentaiForLife posted a screenshot of the post to the /r/greentext^[6] subreddit, where it gained over 950 upvotes in 10 days.

In the following week, the screenshot received viral spread online through reposts.

On June 11th, within one hour of the /v/ post, an anonymous 4chan^[7] user posted a version of the meme about "husband" spending too much money on a home theater to /tv/ (shown below, left).

The meme spread further on social media on June 16th, 2022, when Twitter^[8] user @JackdawJackal posted a version about Bitcoin that gained over 800 retweets and 7,200 likes in five days (shown below, right).

Starting on June 16th, the format achieved viral spread online, primarily on Twitter, 4chan and in LowResMK11 meme community on Facebook. For example, on June 17th, 2022, Twitter^[9] user @HoodlumRiku made a meme about buying and then not reading books that gained over 140 retweets and 1,700 likes in five days (shown below, left). Later on the same day, a 4chan user made a post about Funko Pops in /tv/^[10] (shown below, right).

Mogusa Shirose

Mogusa Shirose is an independent Japanese musician who previously uploaded her music to her two SoundCloud^[12][13] accounts and to YouTube.^[11] She uploaded her first song, "サヨナラ計画," to SoundCloud in March 2013.^[14] Her latest upload was made on June 16th, 2018, to YouTube.^[15]

Mogusa Shirose has an Instagram^[2] account (mog_beibu) and an inactive Twitter^[1] account (@abgmgmp). While the phrase "dies from hypotermia" is used in memes spawned a rumor that she might be dead, Mogusa Shirose is alive.

Alternative Images and Videos

Several images and videos have been used as part of the Ouhhh…. Husband… format, most notably Asian Girl Smoking in the Snow and Korean Girl in a Gru Scarf Punching.

Asian Girl Smoking in the Snow

Jason Isip's Photography, which notably includes the clip of an Asian Girl Smoking in the Snow, refers to the work of photographer and videographer Jason Isip. Isip's perceived proclivity for representing East Asian women in his photography garnered significant attention on X / Twitter in January 2024, with several users parodying a handycam video posted by Isip that depicted a girl smoking a cigarette in the snow set to the Slowdive song "When the Sun Hits."

A woman outside in the snow smoking a cigarette then throwing it down and running away pic.twitter.com/clqJFzupzS

— all reaction videos (@allreactionvids) April 30, 2024

Korean Girl in a Gru Scarf Punching

Korean Girl in a Gru Scarf Punching refers to a POV Punch meme based on a photograph of a young Korean woman winding up a punch. Posted by South Korean influencer Soal in October 2022, the photograph achieved popularity as a caption format in 2024.

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