About

Shit Like This Is Why The Left Has Trouble Growing is a Twitter copypasta parodying a comment made by a person about a crass joke about Kobe Bryant's death. The full copypasta reads, "Shit like this is why the left has trouble growing or being taken seriously. It’s satisfying to an insular online group of resentful shut-ins and misfits, but to the larger society is makes the left seem psychotic." In jokes, the text is paired with goofy images and shitposts.

Origin

On January 26th, 2020, Twitter^[1] user @cognitarians posted a screenshot of a tweet by @leftistthot420 which suggested Kobe Bryant, who recently died in a helicopter crash, should've used a train. @cognitarians wrote, "Shit like this is why the left has trouble growing or being taken seriously. It’s satisfying to an insular online group of resentful shut-ins and misfits, but to the larger society is makes the left seem psychotic." The tweet gained over 100 retweets and 1,500 likes (shown below).

Spread

Shortly after the tweet began spreading, numerous Twitter users poked fun at it by pairing the text with silly images or tweets. For example, user @LivPosting^[2] made the joke using one of her tweets, gaining over 430 retweets and 7,300 likes (shown below, left). User @DeathSentencePC^[3] posted the copypasta with a post by ILUdeathmetal (shown below, right).

Others posted infamous images with the copypasta. For example, user @VK_hm posted the copypasta with This Is Not A Pipe, gaining over 200 likes (shown below, left). User @ComradeLuanne posted the copypasta with Pig Poop Balls (shown below, right).

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