Imagine You Live In LA With Your Boyfriend

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Imagine You Live In LA With Your Boyfriend refers to a video made by Instagram and TikTok user spritely who sings a song about her breakup with her ex-boyfriend who wanted to move to Texas to be closer to his dad and, after they got there, he told her that their "incompatible and have nothing in common." The original video was an Instagram Reel shared in October 2024. It spread online in the weeks after its virality as many reacted to spritely's story and expressed shock and solidarity, calling it a "horror story" and using it to criticize men in general. Others found spritely's video cringe and wondered why she posted it. Many jokes were levied about spritely briefly mentioning that she was in an improv troupe that she had to leave.

Origin

On October 14th, 2024, Instagram^[1] user @spritely shared a video about her boyfriend of three years breaking up with her after she moved with him from Los Angeles to Texas. The video was an original song that documented the story of her heartbreak. It started with her singing, "Imagine, you live in LA with your boyfriend and everything's going amazing." Over one week, the Reel received roughly 16.8 million views and 822,100 likes (shown below).

She also posted the video to her TikTok^[2] account @spritelynotthesoda on October 14th, where it received over 2 million plays and 366,600 likes over the same timeframe.

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Lyrics / Copypasta

Imagine, you live in LA with your boyfriend and everything's going amazing 'til he says, "Babe, I wanna move back to Texas to be closer to my dad." So, you give up half of your career, quit your improv troupe and have a goodbye party, take off months of work, deplete your savings to pay for movers and drive to Texas. It's so worth it for the love of your life that wants a future with you because he said so. So, you spend a month waiting for your shit to arrive and then another month moving in and building furniture and stuff and you're so happy 'til he comes back from a family vacation, sits on your couch which just arrived in the mail and hands you a note that says we have nothing in common and we're incompatible. Oh, no. How? How did I not notice? This whole time, three and a half years of happiness, we've been incompatible this whole time and that we have nothing in common for three and a half years! How did I not notice? Wow! What a surprise! Thank you for informing me that this whole time we had nothing in common! So, you pack up your car with whatever you can fit in it—just kidding, you're crying too hard so he has to pack it for you—and then you drive to Florida to live with your mom.

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On October 19th, 2024, X^[3] user @tythecreations tweeted, "Bruh I just watched the most insane video fr. Haaa men wicked…" and then later quote retweeted ^[8] the tweet, attaching the Imagine You Live In LA With Your Boyfriend video. The tweet received over 60.9 million views and 178,000 likes in two days (shown below).

In the following days, users on X reacted to the abovementioned video in QRTs and replies. For instance, on October 19th, X^[4] user @BGarcN2 quoted the video, writing, "this should genuinely be illegal im not kidding," receiving over 77,000 likes in two days (shown below).

On October 19th, X^[5] user @Ariannnyy_ also quoted the video, writing, "No shade, but prioritizing love has never benefited a woman. Ever," gaining over 186,000 likes in two days (shown below).

Others questioned spritely's decision to move to Texas and shifted blame on her intuition. For instance, on October 20th, X^[6] user @megantheevalium wrote, "i’m starting to think he made it really obvious he didn’t want her to come with him to texas. and she ignored that," receiving over 9,000 likes in a day (shown below).

Some combated statements like the abovementioned, like X^[7] user @K_A_N_D_E_L on October 20th, who wrote, "I think the main reason people are victim blaming her is because she mentioned the improv team," amassing over 12,000 likes in a day (shown below).

Viral tweets about the Imagine You Live In LA With Your Boyfriend video also surfaced outside of @tythecreations's tweet.^[8] For instance, on October 19th, X^[9] user @tyler02020202 tweeted about how he was obsessed with how spritely "made time to say that she had to quit her improv troupe," receiving over 99,000 likes in two days (shown below).

Update

On October 17th, 2024, spritely posted an update video to her TikTok^[10] in which she elaborated on the story. The video received over 92,100 plays and 4,500 likes in four days (shown below).

On October 20th, X^[11] user reposted the update video and called spritely, "Delusion pro max," likely concerning spritely's comments about wanting to remain friendly with her ex and possibly getting back together with him.