No To All Of Those, Just Ask Me To Lean Down

About

No To All Of Those, Just Ask Me To Lean Down, or My Boyfriend Is Too Tall For Me To Kiss Him On The Lips, is an exploitable text-based meme format in which one character poses the question, "My boyfriend is too tall for me to kiss him on the lips. What should I do?" and several other characters give suggestions, ending with the boyfriend in question responding, "NO TO ALL OF THOSE. JUST ASK ME TO LEAN DOWN." The post was originally made by Tumblr user incorrect-the-100-quotes in May 2017 and inspired variations over the following years, in which the names of the characters are altered. In the 2020s, a version of the meme in which profile pictures of characters from a given fandom are attached to each line of text was popularized.

Origin

On May 9th, 2017, Tumblr^[1] user incorrect-the-100-quotes made a text post that garnered over 1,700 notes in seven years reading:

Clarke: My boyfriend is too tall for me to kiss him on the lips. What should I do?

Raven: Punch him in the stomach. Then, when he doubles over in pain, kiss him.

Monty: Tackle him.

Murphy: Dump him.

Miller: Kick him in the shin.

Bellamy: NO TO ALL OF THOSE. JUST ASK ME TO LEAN DOWN.

Spread

The post garnered viral spread over the following years, inspiring new versions in which the names of the characters associated with each line of text are changed. For example, on June 1st, 2017, Tumblr^[2] user smoljamesmadison posted a version using the names of Hamilton characters, garnering over 3,300 notes in seven years.

On July 12th, 2020, Tumblr^[3] user softmushie posted a response to a version of the meme referencing Dear Evan Hansen, drawing out the interaction, garnering over 7,000 notes in four years.

On June 30th, 2024, X^[4] user @AraYuannn posted a version of the meme referencing the game Honkai Star Rail in which representations of characters from the game have been inserted to the left of each line of text, garnering over 12,000 likes in four months.

The visual version of the meme continued to spread over the following months on sites including X and Reddit. On September 11th, X^[5] user @weareonenx_09 posted a version of the meme using characters from SPY x FAMILY, garnering over 6,800 likes in a month. On September 17th, u/CabinetFlaky9731 posted a version of the meme to /r/Bleach^[6] that garnered over 6,300 upvotes in the same span of time.

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