Beyoncé Twins Photo

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About

Beyoncé Twins Photo refers to a stylized photograph of recording artist Beyoncé standing with her newborn twins, Sir Carter and Rumi, in front of a floral archway. Shortly after the release of the photograph, people online began photoshopping and reacting to the image.

Origin

On July 14th, 2017, Beyoncé shared a photograph of herself in front a floral arch holding her newborn twins, Sir Carter and Rumi. The photograph was captioned "Sir Carter and Rumi 1 month today. 🙏🏽❤️👨🏽👩🏽👧🏽👶🏾👶🏾." This post (shown below) received more than 6.5 million likes in nine hours.^[1]

Spread

The image was met with great excitement online. Shortly after Beyoncé posted the photo, people began sharing and responding to the post with reaction images and gifs of enthusiasm and congratulations.

In addition, people began photoshopping the image in a similar way to Beyoncé's infamous pregnancy announcement.

The photograph and reaction to it received attention from several news outlets, including USA Today,^[2] Yahoo,^[3] Elite Daily,^[4] Mashable,^[5] and more. Additionally, Twitter published a Moments page about the birth announcement picture and reaction.^[6]