My Hungry Ass Could Not Own A Foam Football

About

My Hungry Ass Could Not Own A Foam Football is a Whisper text-post meme that follows the "My Horny Ass Could Not X" phrasal template and is used as a spam comment or reaction image on Twitter. It was originally created in mid-2022 on Instagram before spreading to other platforms.

Origin

On August 5th, 2022, Instagram^[1] user trashcanpaul posted a Whisper post of a foam football with text overlay reading, "My hungry ass could not own a foam football," and earned roughly 67,900 likes in four weeks (shown below). The meme ultimately riffs on the cliché that foam footballs look appetizing and that there's usually "a bite" taken out of them, originally established by Twitter^[2] user Jefferyxbball in 2020.

Spread

On August 7th, 2022, the meme was reposted by Instagram^[3] user cumward, earning roughly 17,400 likes in four weeks. On August 17th, 2022, the image was reposted by Twitter^[4] user McNasty, earning roughly 22,900 likes in two weeks.

On August 29th, 2022, the Twitter^[5] account GoodReddit tweeted a screenshot of a Reddit post about a snake robotically walking for the first time, earning roughly 54,800 likes in one day. Around 7 AM on August 29th, Twitter^[6] user algz_ replied to GoodReddit's tweet with the foam football image, earning over 230 likes in one day (shown below).

Throughout the remainder of the day, more Twitter users replied to GoodReddit's tweet with the foam football image, spamming it in a subsequent thread. As the replies accumulated, Twitter users referenced the spam in videos showing the long scroll. Twitter user algz_ posted the first video five minutes after the trend started, earning roughly 3,000 views in one day (shown below).

Related Memes

My Horny Ass Could Not X

My Horny Ass Could Not X refers to a phrasal template used in memes in which creators replace the X with a scenario or setting their horniness would not allow due to satirically uncontrollable infatuation. It started on Twitter in late 2021 because of a tweet related to SpongeBob's holes. It became more viral in 2022 after an Instagram Story that read, "My horny ass could not live next to Squidward." From there, the snowclone trend spread to Facebook and TikTok, among other social media sites.

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