How I Met vs. How Y'all Met

About

How I Met vs. How Y'all Met is an exploitable catchphrase used in Twitter memes to compare how many people on Twitter were introduced to a certain celebrity with how they were introduced to that celebrity. The comparisons became popular in April 2020 and were typically posted to illustrate how the Twitter user is a die-hard fan or older than most fans of a certain celebrity. They then, shortly after, evolved to other subjects like websites.

Origin

On April 12th, 2020, Twitter user @ShonnieAnn_ ^[2]tweeted two images of American singer Jhene Aiko with the caption, "How I met Jhene vs. how y’all met her" (shown below). The tweet garnered over 98,000 likes and 28,600 retweets in 17 days.

Spread

On April 19th, 2020, Twitter user @jappoffjones^[3] tweeted two images of actor Phill Lewis with the caption, "how yall met Mr Moseby vs how I met him" (shown below, left). The tweet received over 60,600 likes and 16,400 retweets in 10 days. The next day, Twitter user @_colonelyh^[3]compared an early screenshot Instagram's interface to the current one with the captioned, "How I met Instagram How y'all met Instagram" (shown below, right). The tweet gained over 150,000 likes and 108,100 retweets in nine days.

On April 25th, Twitter user @fuckhernleave^[4] shared side-by-side images of how two ways to smoke marijuana with the caption "how i met weed vs. how y’all met weed" (shown below). The tweet garnered over 122,600 likes and 26,800 retweets in four days. StayHipp^[1] published an article on the Twitter trend.

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