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Attractive 22 YO Girl On the Subway refers to tweets made in parody of conservative writer Elliot Kaufman's story related on Twitter about a girl on the subway asking him what book he was reading, which was a biography of Winston Churchill. The girl then asked, "Who's Winston Churchill?" to Kaufman's disappointment. Twitter users turned the setup into a snowclone to mock Kaufman.

Origin

On September 20th, 2018, Kaufman related a story about being disappointed an attractive girl didn't know anything about former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (shown below). The tweet has since been deleted.

Spread

After it was posted, Twitter users began parodying it by changing the subject of the original tweet in snowclones. The parodies began appearing several days later. On September 23rd, Twitter user @GIJoeyJoeJoe tweeted the scenario from the opposite perspective (shown below, left). The following day, Twitter user @Ad0rnisPorno69 tweeted a parody making Kaufman seem extremely horny, gaining over 120 retweets and 1,400 likes (shown below, right).

Other Twitter users made more absurd parodies of the format. For example, Twitter user @i_zzzzz posted a parody using the Wikipedia page for the film Hitch, gaining over 1,400 retweets and 14,000 likes (shown below, left). User @crushingbort posted a parody that gained over 50 retweets and 1,100 likes (shown below, right). These parodies were covered by The Daily Dot.^[1]

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