About

Girls That I Like vs Girls That Like Me is a series of captioned images comparing two female subjects, one a female that the author idealizes and the other, the author jokes idealizes him. In September 2017, the meme became popular after a woman used as the subject of the picture responded to a version of the meme on Twitter.

Origin

The earliest known occurance of the meme was posted on July 24th, 2014 by Twitter^[1] user @Hunter1895. The tweet featured a side-by-side picture of a Hooters model juxtaposed next to a picture of a large person in a Hooters outfit (shown below).

Spread

Over the next three years, the people continued to share the meme throughout Twitter, similar to
You vs. The Guy She Told You Not to Worry About (examples below).

On September 19th, 2017, Twitter^[2] user @imleyton tweeted a picture of two swimsuit models, one very thin and the other plus-sized. The post (shown below) received more than 1,400 retweets and 4,400 likes in 24 hours.

The post became the source of a controversy, after the woman in the "girls who like me" spot responded to the tweet. That day, Twitter^[3] user @ThickLeeyonce responded to the tweet by tweeting "I don't like you." The post (shown below) received more than 250,000 retweets and 800,000 likes in 24 hours. Her response resulted in a Twitter^[4] Moments page to archive the response to her tweet.

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