My Headphones

About

My Headphones refers to a snowclone popular on Twitter in which people joke about the music they are blasting at full volume in their headphones. Usually, this is set up by a person saying their "fine," with the music portraying their actual, darker emotional state.

Origin

On September 24th, 2019, Twitter user @GoothAngel^[1] tweeted a Spanish-language tweet in which a person asks them if they're doing okay and they say yes while they are actually listening to Three Days Grace's "I Hate Everything About You" (shown below).

Spread

Over the following several weeks, the snowclone grew more popular as people made variations with numerous songs. Popular examples include a tweet by @sanaorbits about the K-pop band TWICE that gained over 1,200 retweets and 3,900 likes (shown below, left) and a tweet by @hestylesdebut gained over 4,900 retweets and 23,000 likes (shown below, right).

On October 16th, Mashable^[2] covered the meme, including examples from @caitlinblunnie (shown below, left) and @margielamuse (shown below, right), which gained over 2,800 and 660 likes, respectively.

Various Examples

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