When Someone Is So Hateful It Inspires You To Be Kinder

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When Someone Is So Hateful It Inspires You To Be Kinder, continued, When Someone Is So Kind It Actually Disgusts You, refers to a redraw art trend that uses a screenshot of a TikTok Duet showing one guy smiling and one guy frowning, each labeled with the aforementioned catchphrases. The original TikTok video went viral in May 2024 and the screenshot spread on Twitter / X where the redraw trend transpired. Artists replaced the men and added their own characters.

Origin

On May 21st, 2024, TikToker^[1] @wasabi.xml dueted TikToker^[2] @kaiserxgod, shown frowning with text reading, "When someone is so kind it actually disgusts you." In his duet, @wasabi.xml countered the phrase, showing himself smiling with David Bowie's "Starman" playing and text reading, "When someone is so hateful it inspires you to be kinder." In two days, the duet received roughly 217,300 plays and 74,500 likes (shown below).

Spread

On May 21st, 2024, X^[3] user @Luffgod5 tweeted a screenshot of the duet, writing, "Can this be a drawing template," earning over 150,000 likes in two days (shown below, left).

In the following days, users quoted and replied to the post with redraws and memes. For instance, an early viral example was a Jujutsu Kaisen iteration tweeted by X^[4] user @TheDarkMagik on May 22nd, gaining over 15,000 likes in a day (shown below, right).

Comparisons were levied to other templates as well, like a quote posted by X^[5] user @shiteaterMimoso on May 22nd, 2024, that showed two Chudjak memes that contrasted the Billions Must Die template, gaining over 7,600 likes in a day (shown below, left).

Also on May 22nd, X^[6] user @AfroAaron1 tweeted a version with Alan Keane and Gumball Watterson from The Amazing World of Gumball, gaining over 31,000 likes in less than a day (shown below, right).

Artists on TikTok also used the template, such as TikToker^[7] @ally_chat on May 23rd, 2024, who posted a timelapse of their Delicious In Dungeon iteration, receiving over 11,800 plays and 2,600 likes in less than a day (shown below).