Ninja's "Braless Wife" Tweet

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Ninja's "Braless Wife" Tweet or My Bra-less Wife Brings Me a Sandwich is a tweet by streamer Ninja where he writes that his bra-less wife brought him a sandwich (not asked for) while he was carrying a League of Legends game and getting a double kill bot lane. The tweet was posted in May 2021 and became a copypasta and the subject of memes in the following year, many finding its braggadocious and revealing tone cringey.

Origin

On May 11th, 2021, Ninja tweeted, "I am in the middle of carrying a league of legends game about to close it out, and my bra-less wife brings me a sandwich (not asked for) with chips as I get a double kill bot lane. So how is your day going?" The tweet was deleted but archived by the Wayback Machine.^[1]

I am in the middle of carrying a league of legends game about to close it out, and my bra-less wife brings me a sandwich (not asked for) with chips as I get a double kill bot lane.

So how is your day going?

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Many saw the tweet as cringeworthy and it became the subject of memes shortly after. For example, on May 11th, 2021, Twitter^[3] user @bouncyclown posted an edit of a Death Note panel where Light says the tweet, gaining over 20,000 likes and 1,500 retweets in a year (shown below). On May 13th, the tweet was posted to /r/copypasta.^[4] On June 4th it was included in a video by YouTuber^[9] Atrioc as one of his favorite tweets of May. On October 26th, Instagram^[8] meme page big_chungles posted a screenshot of the tweet with Ninja's profile picture and tag edited out and replaced by another meme page, gaining over 12,000 likes in seven months.

The tweet also became a copypasta, with users sometimes changing words in the tweet to alter the context. On January 17th, 2022, Twitter^[5] user @slime_machine posted a version of the copypasta in a tweet defending Pokimane after Ninja's wife Jessica Blevins threatened to sue her, gaining over 22,000 likes in four months (shown below, left). On February 24th, Twitter^[6] user @BlargMyShnoople posted a version of the copypasta, gaining over 7,500 likes in three months (shown below, right).

On May 11th, the one-year anniversary of the tweet, Snopes^[7] published an article on the tweet confirming it was real. On May 25th, Twitter^[2] user @JonComms posted, "'braless wife' was probably the funniest thing to come from this site," gaining over 18,500 likes in a day.

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