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Raven Brah & @raven_brah Definitely a hard 7. You used to see women with eyes like this in every major city in Hyperborea 30,000 years ago. rain @redactedrain · Jul 18 We found her. The perfect ice blue A10. LIKE . Growheimfarooqui @rowheimfarooqui 6:25 PM Jul 18, 2023 480.4K Views

Laocoon of Troy @LaocoonofTroy · Jul 16 American actress, Michelle Pfeiffer, 1994 m 10 @m28933194 27 7 3 4:13 PM Jul 16, 2023 · 150 Views 108 | 7,811 She's a hard 6. You used to find a Michelle Pfeiffer in every Gadzooks in 1995.

Holly @hollymin_aj He is a hard 4. You used to find a Cillian Murphy in every butch lesbian bar in 1995. COPPENHEIMER OPPENHEIMER 9:26 AM Jul 14, 2023 243 Views

Farages F----- Face @soldierpaypig She is a hard 7. You used to find an Eminem In Drag in every Blockbuster Video in 1995. hazecel @fivehourslate Jul 13 alright how are we feeling about 2004 eminem in drag : 2:27 PM Jul 13, 2023 · 371 Views

river @riversrunning1 She is a hard 7. You used to find a girl like her in every psych ward in 1995. 5:49 kwan EE

Raven Brah > @raven_brah Definitely a hard 6. Not sure what Faramir sees in her, you find can women like this all across the Riddermark 9:53 AM Jul 13, 2023 12K Views :

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You Used to Find an X in Every Y is a phrasal template used in a series of social media posts that imply, often ironically, that certain celebrities known for being conventionally attractive are rather mid and that people with similar appearances can easily be found anywhere. The format gained virality on Twitter in July 2023 following a contentious tweet that called actress Margot Robbie mid.

Origin

On August 1st, 2017, Twitter^[1] user @drewclouds (formerly @BieberBoners_) tweeted two photographs of singer Justin Bieber, commenting, "he is truly the most beautiful human being wow." Later that day, Twitter user @drequentlyian replied to the tweet by saying that one could meet three people who looked like that at a nearest gas station (tweet no longer available, exchange shown below).^[2]

he is truly most beautiful human being ever wow zander @finah you can literally drive to your local gas station and find at least 3 people that look like this

Screenshots of the exchange were widely circulated online in the following years. For example, on November 28th, 2017, the Facebook^[3] page UNILAD Sound posted a screenshot that received over 4,400 reactions and 250 shares in six years. A June 5th, 2021, iFunny^[4] post by ShadowELF received over 20,000 smiles in two years.

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The format did not achieve virality until mid-2023 when Twitter^[5]^[6] user @bizlet7 made two similarly structured tweets in which he stated that actresses Jennifer Connelly and Margot Robbie were 6 and 7 on the 1-10 Attractiveness Scale, adding that "you used to find a Jennifer Connely in every Outback Steakhouse in 1995" and "you used to find a Margot Robbie in every Blockbuster Video in 1995." The tweets (shown below, left and right) garnered over 60 retweets and 1,600 likes and 280 retweets, 5,000 quote tweets and 5,400 likes in two months and in one week, respectively.

Bizlet @bizlet7 She's a hard 6. You used to find a Jennifer Connelly in every Outback Steakhouse in 1995. Laocoon of Troy @LaocoonofTroy. May 30 American actress, Jennifer Connelly, in the early 1990s. 4:32 PM . May 30, 2023 883.5K Views

Bizlet @bizlet7 She is a hard 7. You used to find a Margot Robbie in every Blockbuster Video in 1995. 8:51 PM Jul 11, 2023 31.6M Views :

The second tweet spawned a meme format that involved users sharing photographs of celebrities considered conventionally attractive paired with a caption that you could easily find people like them (examples shown below).^[7]^[8]

Raven Brah > @raven_brah She is a hard 7. You used to find a Sydney Sweeney in every Round Table Pizza in 1995. 3:54 PM Jul 12, 2023 25.5K Views : e-t

Alex Cohen → @anothercohen He is a hard 7. You used to find a Ryan Gosling in every Blockbuster Video in 1995. 1:26 AM Jul 13, 2023 38.1K Views

The format maintained its popularity on Twitter throughout July 2023.

Various Examples

Cocktopus @UberSoldat1025 She's a hard 7. You used to be able to walk up to any Thermopolium in Alexandria and find at least a couple of girls like her 4:19 PM Jul 12, 2023 · 2,191 Views INT

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External References

^[1] Twitter – @drewclouds

^[2] BuzzFeed – 24 People Who Made A Funny Tweet Even Funnier

^[3] Facebook – UNILAD Sound

^[4] iFunny – ShadowELF_2014

^[5] Twitter – @bizlet7

^[6] Twitter – @bizlet7

^[7] Twitter – @raven_brah

^[8] Twitter – @anothercohen

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