I Met This Guy on Holiday
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I Met This Guy On Holiday refers to a popular photoshopped of a woman with actor Michael B. Jordan. The image went viral in the fall of 2018, generating numerous variations on the image as well as a meeting between the poster and Jordan.
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On November 24th, 2018, Twitter [1] user @BeeBabs tweeted an photoshopped image of herself with Black Panther actor Michael B. Jordan. They captioned the tweet, "I met this guy on holiday this summer-we had a such a great connection but I changed my number and we lost touch. Twitter do your thing😭🙏🏿❤." The tweet received more than 20,000 retweets and 134,000 likes in five days (shown below).
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Following the post, others on Twitter made similar tweets, expressing their desire to reach out to a celebrity.[2] Some of these images included a photoshopped image of the Twitter user with the celebrity (shown below).
On November 28th, @BeeBabs posted a video of herself meeting Michael B. Jordan at a screening of Jordan's film Creed II. The video received more than 19,000 views (shown below).
Later that day, she posted a photograph of the two together. She captioned the image,[3] "Ms Steal Your Man. Case closed." The tweet received more than 2,100 retweets and 22,000 likes in 24 hours (shown below, left).
The following day,[4] Jordan retweeted the image, writing "Happy Twitter did it’s thing 🙌🏾🌹🙏🏾😂 Great meeting you (for the second time 🤷🏾♂️😂😂😂)" The tweet received more than 2,200 retweets and 15,000 likes in 24 hours (shown below, right).
Several media outlets covered the story, including Mashable, [5] Nylon,[6] The Daily Dot. [7] Twitter[8] published a Moments page about the story, as well.
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[1] Twitter – @BeeBabs's Tweet
[2] Twitter – I Met This Guy on Holiday
[3] Twitter – @BeeBabs's Tweet
[4] Twitter – @michaelb4jordan's Tweet
[5] Mashable – Badly photoshopped pic of Michael B Jordan goes gloriously viral
[6] Nylon – This Meme Performed Actual Magic
[7] The Daily Dot – A Woman Met Michael B. Jordan After Asking Twitter To Help Her Find Him
[8] Twitter – When your fake pic of Michael B. Jordan turns into the real thing
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