This Is My Body

About

This Is My Body refers to a copypasta meme popular on Twitter made in parody of a tweet by former reality television personality and writer/blogger Austin Armacost that reads "This is my body. No 6 pack, no bulging biceps, & a little chubby BUT I LOVE my body. Don't like it, unfollow #FuckTheHaters 👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼 #Happy." After the tweet, Twitter users posted various humorous pictures with Armacost's text, making the meme similar to Twitter memes such as This Is The Ideal Male Body and Before the Liberals Find a Reason to Deface This Statue.

Origin

On September 20th, Austin Armacost tweeted a picture of himself with the caption "This is my body. No 6 pack, no bulging biceps, & a little chubby BUT I LOVE my body. Don't like it, unfollow #FuckTheHaters 👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼 #Happy".^[1] The tweet gained over 380 retweets and 5,200 likes (shown below).

Spread

Shortly after the tweet was posted, people began posting various other pictures with Armacost's caption. 16 minutes after Armacost's tweet, Twitter user @yashar^[2] tweeted a picture of a toasted marshmallow with the caption, gaining 19 retweets and 249 likes (shown below.)

Over the course of the day, hundreds of tweets with the caption and various pictures were posted. One of the most popular examples, posted by @SouthernHomo,^[3] used a picture of Winnie The Pooh, gaining over 210 retweets (shown below, left). Another popular type of tweet used the caption with the image of shirtless Mario which started the Mario's Nipples meme (example shown below, right). The meme was covered by Select All.^[4]

Various Examples

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