About

She Was a X Girl He Was a X Boy is an exploitable image macro meme that utilizes a still from the TV show Breaking Bad. The image shows Jesse Pinkman (played by Aaron Paul) and Jane Margolis (Krysten Ritter) alongside the phrasal template "she was a X girl he was a X boy," which is typically overlaid on the picture with recaptioned text on the top and bottom. The meme format was popularized on Indian meme pages in December 2022.

Origin

On November 22nd, 2022, the Twitter^[1] account @YTVanced posted the earliest known version of the meme, which utilizes a still from season two, episode 12 of the TV show Breaking Bad in which the characters Jesse Pinkman and Jane Margolis ar standing outside smoking.^[2] The tweet, comparing a Spotify Premium "girl" and a YouTube Vanced "boy," gathered over 4,600 likes in just over two weeks (seen below).

Spread

On November 28th, 2022, the Instagram^[3] page @baekoof posted an edited version of the meme recaptioned with new text, gathering over 15,000 likes in nearly two weeks (seen below, left). On November 29th, the page then posted another version of the meme,^[4] gathering over 13,000 likes in nearly two weeks (seen below, right).

On December 3rd, the Twitter^[5] page @desi_bhayo88 posted a version of the meme and gathered over 1,400 likes in nearly 10 days (seen below, left). Also on December 3rd, the Instagram page @tera.hone.wala.pati.3^[6] posted a version of the meme and gathered 30 likes in a similar timeframe. The meme was then reposted by the Instagram account @memechatapp,^[7] gathering over 2,000 likes in nearly 10 days (seen below, right).

Template

Various Examples

Search Interest

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