About

Fat Love is a meme in the H3 Podcast community based on images of show crew member Love edited to make him look fat. The meme started to come to fruition in May 2023 after a Redditor posted the first Fat Love edit to the /r/h3h3productions subreddit in May 2023 as part of a joke about Love, who lived in Sweden at the time, moving to America and getting fat. Love leaned into the meme over the following years, creating and sharing many Fat Love edits along with members of the subreddit.

Origin

In 2023, Love, a producer for the H3 Podcast who used to work remotely from Sweden, started talking about acquiring a visa to move to America permanently. On May 16th, 2023, Redditor u/dunkaroomagoo posted an edit of Love to the /r/h3h3productions^[1] subreddit that makes him look overweight, titling the post, "Love a month after moving to America." The post gained over 1,900 upvotes in two years and is the earliest "fat Love" meme, although it was not known by that name yet. The original, unedited image was posted by Love to Instagram^[2] a year prior.

Spread

On May 19th, 2023, Love reposted the edit on his X^[3] page, @YungFika, writing, "Let him cook 🦅🇺🇲," garnering over 3,500 likes in two years. On July 3rd, Love posted an image of himself at Disney Land run through a fat filter, writing, "Fun day at Disneyland," garnering over 4,500 likes in two years.

He posted more "Fat Love" edits to Threads^[4] on July 6th, which gained over 1,800 upvotes after they were reposted to the /r/h3h3productions^[5] subreddit on July 6th. On October 31st, Love posted another collection of Fat Love edits to X.^[6]

On November 8th, the term "Fat Love" was used to describe the meme for the first known time during an episode of the H3 Podcast on YouTube,^[7] during the announcement of a run of limited edition trading cards.

On October 15th, 2025, the X^[8] account @h3h3producitons, a parody of H3 Podcast host Ethan Klein, posted a Fat Love meme, writing, "I’m doxxing my employee @YungFika. Here’s why. Since moving here from Sweden, he has eaten nothing but fast food and his weight is out of control. His address is PO Box 15327 Los Angeles, CA 90015. Send him non-flavored water, vegetables, and anything else to help ❤️" garnering over 500 likes in a year.

On October 18th, the post was discussed on an episode of the H3 Podcast^[9] after the show's marketing manager and crew member, Tom Ward, purportedly commented on it in defense of Love, believing it to be a real attack on him.

On October 31st, Love sent his editor an photoshopped image of himself as Fat Love laying on a couch, which would go on to be used as the thumbnail to his video "Reviewing The Chicken Big Mac," posted to the Yung Fika YouTube^[10] channel that day, garnering over 17,000 views in nine months.

The meme became increasingly popular on the /r/h3h3productions subreddit throughout 2025 as fans began uploading their own edits. For example, on March 19th, 2025, Redditor u/Chief_NoTel posted an edit to the /r/h3h3productions^[11] subreddit replacing Ethan and Hila Klein's baby with Fat Love, garnering over 2,800 upvotes in four months.

On July 9th, 2025, the H3 Podcast debuted a Fat Love filter on an episode of the podcast^[12] that makes Love, in real time, look like Fat Love using a claymation style.

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