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When You Talk Back To Your Momma and She Snatch You Up refers to a viral video on Twitter in which a man lifts another man up by his shirt from above and pulls him up several feet. The name comes the caption accompanying the video when it was first posted to Twitter.

Origin

On November 14th, 2017, Twitter user @MaiyahHall^[1] posted a video of a man picking up a younger man by his sweatshirt at a sports field. The tweet, shown below, gained over 27,000 retweets and 41,000 likes.

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Two days later, the video was reposted by @PROGRAMMRZ^[2] with the caption "How I’m snatching my blessings all 2018." The tweet gained 78,000 retweets and 90,000 likes. Both that tweet and @MaiyahHall's tweet were quoted in various tweets on the site with people adding their own various captions to the video. On November 17th, user @PapiDaSilva_^[3] captioned the video "This is how girls collect their friends when they see them talking to an ugly guy in a club," gaining over 49,000 retweets and 117,000 likes (shown below, left). Twitter user @jonahbunch_^[4] tweeted the video with the caption "when they reply in under a second, gas you up, have goals in life, and love you unconditionally," gaining 1,900 retweets and 4,100 likes (shown below, right). The tweets were covered by Twitter Moments^[5] on the 21st.

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