"This Is the Ideal Male Body"
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"This Is the Ideal Male Body"
Part of a series on Weird Twitter. [View Related Entries]
About
"This is the ideal male body," also known as “This is the ideal 'male' body,” refers to a series of jokes parodying a tweet posted by Canadian-American conservative media personality Steven Crowder that highlighted a picture of Russian heavyweight MMA fighter Fedor Vladimirovich Emelianenko as an example of the ideal male physique.
Origin
On January 13th, 2016,[1] Crowder tweeted the picture of Emelianenko along with a short caption describing it as "the ideal make [sic] body." (shown below).
However, Crowder's tweet didn't draw any major attention until August 16th, 2016, when popular video-editing comedian Vic Berger IV mocked a tweet by Crowder that said "There is an epidemic of young, very portly girls dressing quite whorish. Unsettling." Twitter user @playazball[2] replied to Vic Berger IV's tweet with screenshot of Crowder's "ideal male body" tweet captioned "and for you men, take note of what Steven feels is the ideal body," inspiring the spread of the joke (shown below).
Spread
Joke variations where Crowder's original text is applied to different images began spreading rapidly through Weird Twitter, to the point where "The Ideal Male Body" was a Twitter moment[3] by the end of the day. Popular variations included Graham,[4] Toad crossed with Bayonetta,[5] Homer Simpson,[6] Shrek,[7] Frasier,[8] and many more. The meme was covered by The Daily Dot,[9] New York Magazine,[10] College Humor,[11] and The Verge.[12]
Various Examples
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External References
[2] Twitter – @playazball
[3] Twitter – The 'ideal make body' meme is so hot right now
[4] Twitter – @FanSince09
[6] Twitter – @ralphdouthat
[7] Twitter – @CrushingBort
[9] The Daily Dot – Twitter savagely mocks conservative bro with 'ideal male body' meme
[10] New York Magazine – This Is the Ideal Male Body
[11] College Humor (via Wayback Machine) – Twitter is Trolling a Dude's Claim That This Is "The Ideal Male Body"
[12] The Verge – Watch a precious meme be birthed in real time
Top Comments
I am AHO Right?
Aug 17, 2016 at 01:20PM EDT
Emperor Wahs!
Aug 17, 2016 at 02:11PM EDT