Woman Spying On Male Lovers Chinese painting and meme format.

Woman Spying On Male Lovers

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Updated Sep 23, 2024 at 06:29PM EDT by Zach.

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Woman Spying On Male Lovers is a reaction image format and classical art meme featuring a Chinese silk painting depicting a woman spying on two male lovers from the Qing dynasty. The painting has been present online since early 2005 but was turned into a reaction image in the 2020s on X / Twitter and Reddit, especially as a reply to fujoshi women seeing LGBTQ+ content online.

Origin

The earliest online mention of the silk painting depicting a woman spying on male lovers from the Qing dynasty was posted by an unknown user on Wikipedia[1] on February 19th, 2005.



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In mid-September 2024, netizens started to use the Chinese silk painting as a reaction image replying to LGBTQ+ couples or shipping characters, particularly on X.

For example, on September 19th, 2024, X[2] user @vampiric_shirin used the viral This Diva" catchphrase along with the woman spying on male lovers painting (seen below), which garnered over 381,000 likes and 40,000 reposts in four days.


x_c4tb0yTHOTI3_x @vampiric_shirin Follow this diva A woman spying on a pair of male lovers 5:28 PM Sep 19, 2024 Q

On September 22nd, 2024, X[3] user @ouioui_faguette used the Wikipedia screenshot of the Chinese silk painting as an exploitable meme format, replacing the woman spying for a picture of the Sense 8 Netflix series. The post (seen below) received more than 16,000 likes and 1,400 reposts in a day.


A woman spying on a pair of male lovers Q

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