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I Spent Weeks Looking for My iPad refers to a series of viral tweets on Twitter / X using a photo of an iPad blending into a car seat with the caption implying that the user spent days, weeks or months looking for it. The original tweet, shared in 2016 by X user @freshbluntz, was copied by others in the following years, turning the image into engagement bait used by copycats to farm likes. Similar to other engagement bait tweets like 97-Year-Old NYC Diner Still Serves Their Coke the Old Fashioned Way and Apple's Best Feature, I Spent Weeks Looking for My iPad was parodied by several X users in the 2020s, mocking the accounts that routinely resurfaced the format for easy engagement.

Origin

On June 1st, 2016, X^[1] user @freshbluntz tweeted, "Just spent 13 days looking for my iPad," with a photo of an iPad on a car seat, seen blending into the black leather due to the cover over the tablet's screen. The tweet received over 17,000 likes in nine years.

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On June 17th, 2016, X^[2] user @drdavidfriedman stole the tweet, receiving over 750 likes in nine years.

On December 4th, 2018, X^[3] user @PicturesFoIder posted a low-quality, cropped screenshot of the original tweet, gaining over 29,000 likes in seven years.

On July 17th, 2020, X^[4] user @HumbuggHere ripped the original tweet's contents, captioning the image, "I SPENT 2 WEEKS LOOKING FOR MY IPAD 😭 😭 😭." Over five years, the post received over 285,000 likes.

Heading into the 2020s, more copycat tweets emerged, like one from X^[5] user @izusenya on January 4th, 2025, gaining over 165,000 likes in 10 months. X^[6] user @izusenya tweeted the same post again on February 27th, gaining over 304,000 likes in nine months. The second tweet received a Community Note, which wrongly identified the origin as X^[2] user @drdavidfriedman's copycat tweet.

In 2025, several users began parodying the tweet. For instance, on March 3rd, 2025, X^[7] user @morchel tweeted a photo of a red iPad on a car seat, captioned, "I SPENT 3 SECONDS LOOKING FOR MY iPAD." Over eight months, the tweet gained over 38,000 likes.

On November 18th, X^[8] user @GayIconDrake quote-tweeted a copycat post, attaching a mirrored version of the iPad photo and writing, "Same thing happened to me 😭😭😭." Over two days, the post garnered over 327,000 likes.

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