Ur Single to Me

About

Ur Single To Me is a snowclone popular on Twitter in which a person says that if "you" are dating a specific type of person, then "you're single to me." This is often followed up with "What is X gonna do, Y?" In this scenario, X is a humorous name given to the specific type of person, and Y is a humorous action associated with that person. For example, a popular post of the snowclone reads, "if you're dating a girl invested in multi level marketing scams u single to me. tf myckaeighlah gonna do, not talk to me since highschool n then try to sell me essential oils?"

Origin

On March 13th, 2019, Twitter user @arealstarboy^[1] tweeted, "If your boyfriend white… you single to me… wtf Tyler gone do🤔😭💪🏾," gaining over 6,600 retweets and 44,000 likes (shown below).

Spread

The snowclone began spreading on Twitter over the following months. On March 23rd, Twitter user @ghoulcabin gained over 22,000 retweets and 145,000 likes (shown below, left). It grew popular in niche music subcultures as well. For example, on May 9th, 2019, Twitter user @pigeonboyalex made a joke using "math rock guitarists" and gained over 400 retweets and 1,900 likes (shown below, right).

The snowclone began to gain widespread popularity towards the end of August, 2019. On August 28th, user @lilaaron911 tweeted, "if ur dating a touring musician ur single to me… wtf he gna do facetime u??", gaining over 310 retweets and 2,900 likes (shown below, left). On August 29th, user @jedwill1999 tweeted "if ur bf a SoundCloud producer you single to me. wtf sadkey gon do?", gaining over 210 retweets 1,500 likes (shown below, right). The spread of the tweets was covered by Mashable.^[2]

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