E-girl & Her Podcaster Boyfriend

About

E-girl & Her Podcaster Boyfriend is a popular caption used on images of beautiful, confident women with shlubby, disheveled men. The people in these posts, usually cultural figures from gossip magazines or film and television, play on stereotypes about podcasters, which people believe are mostly unkempt men.

Origin

On October 17th, 2020, Twitter ^[1] user @nickusen tweeted two photos of Irina Spalko and Mac (portrayed by Cate Blanchett and Ray Winstone, respectively) from the film Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. They captioned the meme, "e-girl & her podcaster boyfriend." The tweet received more than 2,100 likes and 200 retweets in less than two days (shown below).

Spread

Later that day, on October 17th, 2020, Twitter^[2] user @dragoninns tweeted the caption with a photo from the film Uncut Gems. The tweet received more than 26,000 likes and 2,000 retweets in less than two days (shown below, left).

Throughout the next 24 hours, people continued to share variations of the meme (examples below, center and right).

Various Examples

Search Interest

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