About

I Can't Believe I Was In Love With a Chick or You Mean You're Not A Clumsy Soldier Femboy Twink is a redraw format and series of exploitable image macro memes based on a screenshot from Disney's Mulan of the character Li Shang walking away from Mulan after revealing herself to be a woman, captioned, "I can't believe I was in love with a chick." The meme was originally posted to Tumblr in March 2012 and garnered viral spread over the following years, largely as a redraw format in which the characters are replaced.

Origin

On March 10th, 2012, Tumblr user somanypetals, known at the time of origin as twelve-jammy-badgers, posted a 138-panel comic titled Am I Gay?: A Journey of Self Discovery with Shang.^[1] which garnered over 240,000 notes in thirteen years. The original comic is a comedic recaptioning of Disney's Mulan, in which Li Shang questions his sexuality and attraction to Mulan throughout the duration of the movie. A shortened version of the comic then went on to gain further viral spread, featuring the twelve panels in which Li Shang finds out that Mulan is a woman. In the comic, upon finding out, he says, "I can't believe I was in love with chick," then walks away to find a gay bar.

Spread

On April 9th, 2012, 9GAG user vanessadcg reposted the comic in five parts, with Part I and Part III^[2] garnering 50k and 17k upvotes, respectively, in thirteen years. From there, the comic and various croppings of the meme garnered viral spread over the following years, with particularly notable spread of Part III.

On April 17th, 2018, Pinterest^[3] user 🖤BΔTMΔN🖤 posted Part III of the 9GAG version of the comic, garnering over 120 likes in seven years.

On December 9th, 2018, 9GAG^[4] user joelsu posted a cropping of three of the panels that gained over 5,800 upvotes in seven years.

On January 10th, 2019, a cropping of the single "I can't believe I was in love with a chick" panel was archived on Know Your Meme^[5] by Eris, garnering over 2,300 views in six years.

On December 23rd, Redditor u/new2this12345678 posted the cropped three-panel version of the comic to the /r/memes^[6] subreddit, garnering over 42,000 upvotes in six years.

On September 20th, 2020, iFunny^[7] user TrashFromTheSunlessRealms_2014 posted an image macro of Li Shang captioned, "You mean you're not a clumsy soldier femboy twink?"

On November 11th, Redditor u/Scubasteves8183 posted a meme that combines the image macro with the "I can't believe I was in love with a chick" image macro, garnering over 15,000 upvotes in five years.

On August 29th, 2021, Redditor u/ibaRRaVzLa posted a version of the meme to the /r/PoliticalCompassMemes^[8] subreddit, garnering over 2,400 upvotes in four years.

On December 9th, 2022, Redditor u/skelinor posted an original redraw of the comic to the /r/Zelda^[9] subreddit, replacing the characters with Link and Zelda from The Legend of Zelda, garnering over 9,400 upvotes in three years.

On January 8th, 2023, Redditor u/fasd432 posted a meme referencing the comic to the /r/OkBuddyPersona,^[10] garnering over 1,400 upvotes in two years.

On February 12th, 2025, X^[11] user @MoonllitaArt posted a redraw of the comic featuring characters from the video game Persona 4, garnering over 18,000 likes in four months.

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