Twisted Fucking Cycle Path

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Twisted Fucking Cycle Path is a misspelling of "twisted fucking psychopath" that originates from a tweet posted in September 2018. Following the viral spread of the screenshots of the tweet, the misspelling gained popularity in ironic memes, used both independently and in conjunction with formats such as I Have Two Sides.

Origin

On September 30th, 2018, Twitter^[1] user @withthedraco tweeted "I have two sides…. the nicest girl you’ll ever meet😸… and twisted fucking cycle path 👺……..," misspelling "psychopath" as "cycle path."

On the same day, an unknown Redditor^[2] posted a screenshot of the tweet to the /r/BoneAppleTea subreddit, where it received over 3,200 upvotes in six months. On October 1st, 2018, Redditor^[3] enigmaticbloke reposted the screenshot to the /r/Nicegirls subreddit, with the post gaining over 14,400 upvotes in the same period.

Spread

More viral reposts of the screenshots were made in the following years; for example, on December 3rd, 2018, Tumblr^[4] user manie-sans-delire-x made a post that gained over 58,900 likes and reblogs.

On October 2nd, 2018, Redditor^[5] gideon-lorr made the first known meme that incorporated the screenshot, posting it to the /r/smoobypost subreddit. The post (shown below, left) received 49 upvotes. On November 2nd, 2018, an unknown Redditor^[6] posted a meme that received over 110 upvotes in six months (show below, right).

On December 16th, 2018, Redditor^[7] dk65expansionpak made the first known post that used the phrase as a part of an I Have Two Sides image macro. The post gained over 800 upvotes in the /r/SuperMegaShow subreddit in six months (shown below).

In 2019 and the following years, multiple ironic I Have Two Sides memes utilized the catchphrase.

The catchphrase has also seen independent use and has been referenced in memes (example shown below).

I Have Two Sides

I Have Two Sides is an image macro series featuring a headshot photograph of a person split in two or halves of photographs of two different people or characters. The images have been used as a type of anti-meme designed to be purposely unfunny.