About

When bitches get a lil bob is a meme that is often used to poke fun at somebody's bob haircut. A bob cut, or bob for short, "is a short to medium length haircut, in which the hair is typically cut straight around the head at approximately jaw level, and no longer than shoulder-length, often with a fringe at the front"[1]. The meme When Bitches Get a Lil Bob is often used on X (formerly Twitter) when a celebrity gets a haircut, or at an inanimate object with a bob-like shape. The original meme includes a picture of Lilo & Stitch's Agent Pleakley, who sports a short black bob on the show, with the caption "When bitches get a lil bob😂".

Origin

The first occurrence of When bitches get a lil bob was on iFunny in January 2019. The original meme depicts a picture of Agent Pleakley, who sports a short black bob on the show Lilo and Stitch, with the caption "When bitches get a lil bob" and the crying laughing emoji.

Spread

On September 5th, 2022, Twitter user zo1oft tweeted a picture of Chris Pine with his hair cut in a short blond bob with this meme as the caption, It gained over 7,900 likes, and remains the most popular tweet with this caption. This phrase began to boom in popularity as more people used it to describe those whom they thought had "fuck ass haircuts".