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Three Words, Eight Letters, is an image macro series featuring a picture of the characters Chuck Bass and Blair Waldorf from the television series Gossip Girl looking into each other's eyes captioned with variations of phrase "Three words. Eight letters. Say it, and I'm yours."

Origin

On September 1st, 2008, the Season 2 Episode 1 of the television series Gossip Girl was released, in which the character Blair Waldorf asks love interest Chuck Bass to tell her she loves her in order to stay with him (shown below).

Blair Waldorf: The true reason I should stay right where I am and not get in the car, three words, eight letters… say it and I'm yours.
Chuck Bass: I… I…
Blair Waldorf: Thank you. That's all I needed to hear.

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On November 27th, 2012, the @9gag^[4] Twitter feed tweeted the Gossip Girl line followed by the joke "I got food" (shown below).

On May 9th, 2017, the UnexpectedMemes Facebook^[3] pages uploaded a version of the image macro featuring the "Lemme Smash" bird (shown below). On July 31st, 2017, Redditor 3personsouth reuploaded the image to /r/funny,^[1] where it gained over 3,900 points (90% upvoted) and 200 comments in two months.

On August 13th, Redditor molnix posted the image macro combined with a picture of Pickle Rick to /r/rickandmorty (shown below, left). On October 17th, Redditror Extremexis submitted a deep fried variation of the image captioned with the phrase "Begone Thot", which gathered more than 2,300 points and 45 comments within 24 hours on /r/dankmemes (shown below).

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