RIP But I'm Different

About

RIP But I'm Different is a snowclone which originated from a Twitter exchange in which a user jokingly stated "if i was at chernobyl i wouldv stopped it." Another user said "Breh my grandma was there and she got like 20 diseases in 2 hours." The original user replied "RIP to ur grandma but im different." As the tweet got popular, social media users adapted the exchange to fit various characters and situations.

Origin

On June 7th, 2019, Twitter user @stopitg tweeted that he would've "stopped Chernobyl." After user @_georgenykov said his grandma had been effected by exposure at Chernobyl, @stopitg replied "RIP to ur grandma but im different." The tweets appear to have been deleted but were screenshotted by user @benbbre^[1] (shown below).

Spread

After the tweet, other users began posting variations on the exchange using other scenarios. On July 16th, 2019 Twitter user @teabaggingarena tweeted a JoJo's Bizarre Adventure reference, gaining over 150 retweets (shown below, left). On September 9th, user made a reference to It (shown below, right).

The format spread to other social media sites. On September 10th, Redditor SGTSquash posted an edit to /r/bjj, gaining over 100 points (shown below, left). Tumblr user giowanna posted a Bayonetta edit of the snowclone, gaining over 120 points (shown below, right).

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