Boy and Girl Texting

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About

Boy and Girl Texting, also known as Man Texting Woman or Bloqueado, is a multi-panel exploitable webcomics featuring a man and woman sending text messages to each other. The conversation between the two has been subject to numerous edits, generally ending with one of the two subjects blocking the other.

Origin

On December 11th, 2019, Facebook ^[1] user @SadPlayDexty published the earliest known usage of the comic online. However, the comic was illustrated initially by Ari Nunnunano, who published the comic on their Instagram ^[2] on January 15th, 2020. The post received more than 35,000 likes in less than four months (shown below).

Spread

Over the next few months, people online began editing the image. On February 7th, 2020, VK ^[3] user vspomnil_zapical posted an edited version of the comic that received more than 185 reactions in less than two months (shown below, left). Weeks later, on February 26th, Twitter^[4] user @zimonrock posted the earliest available version with the woman writing "bloqueado…" (shown below, center).

On February 29th, Facebook^[5] account mundodelgato posted a variation in which the man writes, "Tengo alergia a los gatos." The post received more than 880 reactions and 350 shares in less than one month (shown below, right).

On March 23rd, Imgur ^[6] user parentinggoals posted an English-language version of the meme in which the woman writes, "I need 100 more dollars for rent or I'll get kicked out," and the man writes," Damn that's crazy." The post received more than 93,000 views and 1,600 points in less than 24 hours (shown below).