About

Yes, We Exist refers to a snowclone jokes which grew popular on Twitter in late February of 2018. In the snowclone, a person states a facet of their identity, then says they do something which completely contradicts that identity, and ends the tweet with "We exist."

Origin

On February 25th, 2018, Twitter user @KelseyFionaBich^[1] posted a satirical tweet which read "yes i'm vegan. yes i eat meat. we exist." The tweet gained over 8,600 retweets and 26,000 likes.

Spread

Many social media users took the tweet seriously and reacted with confusion and mockery. The tweet was reposted to /r/facepalm^[2] where it gained over 34,000 upvotes. In the thread, many users created variations of their own and mocked of the tweet, but user jospebody^[3] said they was sure it was a joke and had spawned a "mainstream" meme format, gaining 429 upvotes. Some Twitter users responded to the original tweet with variations, though it's unclear if they were doing it in mockery of the original tweet. One popular example, tweeted by @UnframeOfMind,^[4] copied the format with atheists, gaining over 65 retweets and 1,000 likes (shown below, left). Others were more clearly sarcastic in their parodies of the original. Twitter user @preyful^[5] tweeted that he was a straight guy who liked sucking dick, gaining over 410 retweets and 1,900 likes (shown below, right).

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