About

Share a Piece of Lore About Yourself is an X / Twitter post trend encouraging users to share pieces of lore about themselves or another topic, using a meme of a stick figure leaning over a computer with their head in their hands. The trend was started as early as March 2024 and went viral in April 2025 with a post by X user @frozenaesthetic that garnered over 200,000 reposts and 1.2 billion views in three months. It was further popularized in July 2025 as X users posted new versions of the trend, often with photoshopped images of the stick figure relating to the given topic. The trend spread to sites including Threads, Reddit and Facebook that same month.

Origin

The exact origin of the stick figure leaning over a computer is unclear. One of the earliest examples is a series of edits posted by Tumblr^[1] user mvmmoney on April 22nd, 2021, that gained about 50 notes in four years.

On March 14th, 2024, X^[2] user @slimeguyethan posted the unedited image of the stick figure under the caption, "share a piece of lore about yourself," garnering over 35,000 likes, 119,000 reposts and 335 million views in a year. The post inspired numerous responses from users sharing lore about themselves, largely as quote-retweets.

Spread

On April 1st, 2025, X^[3] user @frozenaesthetic recreated the post by @slimeguyethan, garnering over 1.2 billion views, 154,000 likes and 205,000 reposts in three months. The post went particularly viral in July, inspiring many users to share lore about themselves.

For example, on July 17th, X^[4] user @brokenbyrds quoted the post with the fact that they made the "This Dock Is Holding an April" post, garnering over 14,000 likes in 11 days.

The trend continued to spread in July 2025, often along with edits of the stick figure image. On July 22nd, X^[5] user @chesscom posted a version reading, "share a piece of chess lore about yourself," garnering over 1,100 likes in six days.

On the same day, Redditor u/Satisonic posted a version of the trend to the /r/Homestuck^[6] subreddit, garnering over 600 upvotes in the same span of time.

On July 24th, 2025, X^[7] user @SchmoozeX posted, "share a piece of lore about your dating life," garnering over 4,600 likes and 17,000 reposts in four days.

On July 26th, X^[8] user @AJkingwing quote posted it and shared a story, reading, "I took a shit in my girlfriend's bathroom and her mom blamed her father for it," garnering over 1,200 likes in two days.

On July 27th, 2025, X^[9] user @Strangeland_Elf posted a parody of the trend, sharing an image of the stick figure with their computer crossed out, reading, "You’ve shared enough pieces of lore about yourself," garnering over 11,000 likes in a day.

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