Tiny Rabbit Is Obsessed With Giant Girlfriend

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About

Tiny Rabbit Is Obsessed With Giant Girlfriend is a series of memes, including redraws, based on a 2019 article published by The Dodo about two rabbits who love each other with the headline, "Tiny Rabbit Is Obsessed With Giant Girlfriend Who's 4 Times His Size." A screenshot of the article, which features a photo of the smaller rabbit and his larger girlfriend rabbit snuggling, gained viral spread through reposts over the following years, inspiring redraws and photoshops of the image.

Origin

On February 8th, 2019, The Dodo^[1] published an article titled "Tiny Rabbit Is Obsessed With Giant Girlfriend Who's 4 Times His Size." The article is about the Covelli family's two rabbits, a 16-pound Flemish named Lilly and a 4-pound rabbit named Romeo who is described as her boyfriend. Sarah Covelli is quoted as saying, “Everyone is usually taken aback by Lilly’s size, and then when they see her with Romeo, they are even more surprised. Romeo has the nickname ‘tiny husbun.’" The article explains how the two rabbits like to snuggle and how Romeo follows her everywhere (photos of Romeo and Lilly shown below).

On February 14th, 2019, a screenshot of The Dodo's article was posted to the subreddit /r/Rabbits,^[4] garnering over 500 upvotes in five years. Later that same day, another screenshot using a different image of the pair was posted to /r/wholesomememes,^[5] this time garnering over 2,100 upvotes (shown below). These are the earliest known posts to share the meme.

Lilly's Death

On December 15th, 2022, Covelli announced on Instagram^[2] that Lilly had died. On April 3rd, 2023, Covelli made another post to Instagram^[3] announcing that, weeks after Lilly's death, they got another rabbit, Chris, as a companion for Romeo, with the two purportedly becoming "besties."

Spread

The article continued to gain viral spread over the following years, also becoming the subject of memes. On February 15th, 2019, X^[6] user @AWDtwit posted an anthropomorphized drawing of Romeo and Lilly, garnering over 25,000 likes in five years (shown below, left). On February 24th, 2021, a now-deleted Redditor posted a meme referencing the article to /r/okbuddyretard,^[7] garnering over 5,000 upvotes in three years (shown below, right).

On April 7th, the original article screenshot was posted to /r/AbsoluteUnits,^[8] garnering over 75,000 upvotes in three years.

On September 18th, a version of the meme was posted to /r/ShitPostCrusaders^[9] that garnered over 17,000 upvotes in three years. On January 7th, 2023, the original screenshot was posted to /r/meirl,^[10] garnering over 30,000 upvotes in a year.

On May 18th, 2024, X^[11] user @ChronicaErys posted a redraw of the meme that garnered over 1,500 likes in three days (shown below).