A Relationship Should Be 50/50

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About

A Relationship Should Be 50/50 refers to a series of viral parody tweets describing humorous, often incorrect ways that a relationship should be 50/50. Each tweet starts, "A relationship should be 50/50," then goes on to describe an abnormal 50/50 scenario that doesn't usually apply to a healthy relationship.

Origin

On September 16th, 2020, Twitter user yam_url^[1] tweeted, "A relationship should be 50/50. She's buying me the PS5 and I'm buying her one Iced Coffee." (Shown below). The tweet garnered over 40 thousand retweets and 281 thousand likes in 12 days.

Spread

As the tweet grew in popularity, Twitter users started parodying it. On September 17th, for example, Twitter users internetanja^[2] and namethenavv^[3] tweeted their own versions of meme, the former garnering 18 likes and three retweets, and the latter garnering 31 likes and four retweets in 11 days (shown below).

On September 21st, Twitter user Annabllebitch^[4] tweeted, "A relationship should be 50/50. He buys the car, I drive it" (shown below, left). The tweet gained over 9.3 thousand retweets and 52 thousand likes, and is one of the first viral parodies of the original tweet. On September 22nd, Twitter users sabrinawxm^[5] and valerydodon^[6] tweeted versions of the meme, garnering over 67 thousand retweets and 360 thousand likes for the former, and 8.5 thousand retweets and 28 thousand likes for the latter (shown below, middle and right). Twitter users continued to find success with the format throughout September.

On September 28th, eBaum's World published an article presenting some of the funniest "A Relationship Should Be 50/50" memes.^[7] That same day, The Tab published a similar article,^[8] and a BuzzFeed piece mentioned the meme.^[9]