Twitter Header Won't Fit / How Do I Fit This Into My Header?

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About

Twitter Header Won't Fit is a series of Twitter posts in which users say that they can't fit their favorite image into their Twitter header and prove so with a screen shot of the Twitter cropping tool over an image. Though the trend began with sincerity, the posts devolved into a quick way to fool Twitter users to click on someone's main profile or reply to the tweet and eventually formed into ironic posts in September 2019. In September 2023, the trend saw a revival as How Do I Fit This Into My Header posts, with users reporting that they managed to fit an image of a trashcan into their header while setting the header to an image of a disliked celebrity.

Origin

On August 17th, 2019, @whitcombailey^[1] tweeted, "All I want in life is to take a photo where my boyfriend and I’s faces can both fit into my Twitter header 🙃" attaching photos of herself with her much taller boyfriend with the Twitter header cropping tool either surrounding his head or her head (shown below). The tweet gained over 37,400 retweets and 264,500 likes in a month. Many Twitter users replied with solutions.

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On September 17th, 2019, Twitter user @holyfaulkner^[2] tweeted "all i want in life is to fit both of hero and jo into my twitter header--" (shown below, left). The tweet involving the celebrity couple garnered over 38,200 likes and 8,600 retweets in eight days. On September 22, Twitter user @shonen_boi_ ^[3] posted an image of earth featuring the Twitter header cropping tool with the caption "mannn all i ever wanted was to fit my world in my header" which mocks a person calling their significant other "their world" (shown below, right). The tweet accumulated over 1,100 likes and 392 retweets in three days.

On September 23rd, Twitter^[4] user @_ProfJelko_ commented on the trend by tweeting, "These 'haha my header won't fit c:' are so fucking predictable how tf do people still click on them and be like 'haha you got me pal here are your likes and retweets'" (shown below).

2023 Revival

On August 18th, 2023, X^[5] user @ifihad222choose posted an image of a tall trash can, writing, "Yo how Tf do I fit this in my header." Later that day, @ifihad222choose quoted^[6] their post, reporting that they figuted it out (shown below, left), while replacing their X header with the message "Joel Embiid," the name of an NBA player (shown below, right). The tweet received over 140 reposts and 1,400 likes in one week.

On August 19th, 2023, X^[7]^[8] user @willsgardevoir subverted the meme by putting an image of an actual trash can in their header. Their tweet (shown below, left) received over 2,300 reposts and 37,100 likes in six days.

More memes in which users posted about succeeding to fit an image of a trashcan into their header, while setting their header image to a photograph of a disliked celebrity or media went viral in the following days, including versions^[9]^[10] about YouTuber Dream and video game Valorant.